He was thinking meantime to himself that in this house one met everybody sooner or later.
— from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

The ether has two hundred or more elementary substances, each atom of our eighty or ninety "elements" being the chemical union of great masses of two or more of the etheric elements or their combinations.
— from Ancient and Modern Physics by Thomas E. Willson

Tomorrow this closing chapter of my journal will pass into the hands of my eldest son.
— from Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss

There was a single room in the house of Mrs. Elwood's sister, but Elfreda had refused to consider it.
— from Grace Harlowe's First Year at Overton College by Josephine Chase

The soft whirr of the disintegrator in the hands of Mr. Edison standing near me came to my ears through the telephonic wire.
— from Edison's Conquest of Mars by Garrett Putman Serviss

As those who pass over the heights of mountains see the clouds sweep below, veiling the plains and valleys from their gaze, while they, only a little above the level, survey the movements and the homes of men; even so from your lofty eminence ye behold but the indistinct and sullen vapours—while from my humbler station I see the preparations of the shepherds, to shelter themselves and herds from the storm which those clouds betoken.
— from Rienzi, the Last of the Roman Tribunes by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron