Two editions of the Spectator , the tenth and eleventh, were published by Tonson in the year of Steele's death.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

But that the predominating facial expression is formed by countless fleeting and characteristic contortions is also the reason why the faces of intellectual men only become moulded gradually, and indeed only attain their sublime expression in old age; whilst portraits of them in their youth only show the first traces of it.
— from Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer

Page 246 - the text “in the yards of some of them slaughter-houses” changed to “in the yards of some of them were slaughter-houses” (“indeed, in the yards of some of them were slaughter-houses, with all their unpleasant concomitants.”).
— from The Sanitary Evolution of London by Henry (Henry Lorenzo) Jephson

The semi-circular exedra discovered subsequently to a deed dated Sept. 1808 (therefore in that year or subsequently) is also figured by the Rev. Prebendary Scarth, as on the south end of the same western bath {19} and a piece of a rectangular exedra as the eastern wall of this western bath and the boundary between it and the Great Bath.
— from The Excavations of Roman Baths at Bath by Charles Edward Davis

For this I thank you, oh, so much!
— from The Coming of the King by Joseph Hocking

The squares were to be allotted, one to each of the States forming the Union: "The centre of each square will admit of statues, columns, obelisks, or any other ornaments ... to perpetuate not only the memory of such individuals whose counsels or military achievements were conspicuous in giving liberty and independence to this country, but also those whose usefulness hath rendered them worthy of general imitation, to invite the youth of succeeding generations to tread in the paths of those sages or heroes whom their country has thought proper to celebrate."
— from With Americans of Past and Present Days by J. J. (Jean Jules) Jusserand

“Why, you'll be safe to meet the reddleman that I told ye of,” said Fairway.
— from The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy

It was locked, but putting his shoulder to it the young oarsman soon burst it open.
— from The Young Oarsmen of Lakeview by Edward Stratemeyer

TWINTER, s. A beast that is two years old, S, corr. quinter .
— from An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals by John Jamieson

CHRISTMAS PUDDING Open a pint can of mince meat and add to it the yolks of six eggs well-beaten.
— from The Myrtle Reed Cook Book by Myrtle Reed

For the first time in twelve years of steady conviction that she had done right, the suggestion that the only justification for such refusal must lie in the inability of one or the other to perform their part of the contract, and that that, again, must depend on what the contract of marriage is essentially, came to disturb her.
— from Voices in the Night by Flora Annie Webster Steel