Being pretty well gone in the back and knees, she got away from me and slid the last ten feet, giving her bottom a bumping that it never did entirely recover from.
— from Down the Columbia by Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome) Freeman

This conception must, however, be taken as only comparative, as up to this time there is no definitely established rule for measuring the energy [14] of acids.
— from The Principles of Chemistry, Volume I by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev

There is no direct evidence regarding them, and the testimony of writers in the third century, like Hippolytus, is of no value for the Gospels.
— from Supernatural Religion, Vol. 2 (of 3) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation by Walter Richard Cassels