The natural immunity of the mongoose and the hedgehog rests upon more scientifically established facts.
— from Venoms: Venomous Animals and Antivenomous Serum-therapeutics by A. (Albert) Calmette

It was bandaged; but above the edge of the bandage his knuckles bore evidence how they had retaliated upon Mr. Silk's teeth.
— from Lady Good-for-Nothing: A Man's Portrait of a Woman by Arthur Quiller-Couch

So we think we may say, with entire confidence, that it was known to many learned men in ancient times that there were settlements upon the continent of America, and that the dreams of the Western Islands of the Blest, and of the gardens of the Hesperides, rested upon most substantial facts.
— from Prehistoric Structures of Central America: Who Erected Them? by Martin I. (Martin Ingham) Townsend

As cause and effect always act and react, this added enormously to his repute, until Mark Stote the gamekeeper, and Reuben Cuff the constable, ached and itched with jealousy of that “cock–eyed, cock–headed boy”.
— from Cradock Nowell: A Tale of the New Forest. Vol. 1 (of 3) by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

Some of the great responsibility that has rested upon my shoulders I felt I could place upon yours.
— from Anarchy and Anarchists A History of the Red Terror and the Social Revolution in America and Europe; Communism, Socialism, and Nihilism in Doctrine and in Deed; The Chicago Haymarket Conspiracy and the Detection and Trial of the Conspirators by Michael J. Schaack

But send thy heavenly rain Unto my soul again, Even to me, as grieving in the dust I lie! {42} Who shall take care of our Sick?
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 08, October, 1868, to March, 1869. by Various