Fanned by a constant updraught of ventilation between the kitchen and the chimneyflue, ignition was communicated from the faggots of precombustible fuel to polyhedral masses of bituminous coal, containing in compressed mineral form the foliated fossilised decidua of primeval forests which had in turn derived their vegetative existence from the sun, primal source of heat (radiant), transmitted through omnipresent luminiferous diathermanous ether.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

One or other is also the reading of the Old Latin (d, e, g, harl.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

These reach back to the most remote antiquity, and to follow their development we should have to write the history of human thought which they have always accompanied since the time of Leucippus, Democritus, Epicurus, and Lucretius.
— from The New Physics and Its Evolution by Lucien Poincaré

The gates of heaven are opened to receive the receptacle of God, who, bringing forth the tree of life, destroyed Eve’s disobedience and Adam’s penalty of death.
— from St John Damascene on Holy Images (πρὸς τοὺς διαβάλλοντας τᾶς ἁγίας εἰκόνας). Followed by Three Sermons on the Assumption (κοίμησις) by Saint John of Damascus

By courtesy of the owner, Lawrence Durham, Esq.
— from James Fenimore Cooper by Mary Elizabeth Phillips

(23) The one whom the thought of love disturbs, eats and sleeps little.
— from The Mediaeval Mind (Volume 1 of 2) A History of the Development of Thought and Emotion in the Middle Ages by Henry Osborn Taylor

This other law depends entirely on the number, kind, strength, and geometrical arrangement of the primitive elements which enter into the constitution of the molecule; and since molecules of different primitive substances are very differently constituted, every kind of molecule must have its own peculiar law of acting at molecular distances—a fact on which the scientific explanation of the different physical and chemical properties of different substances entirely depends.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 19, April 1874‐September 1874 by Various

Accordingly, obedient but unwilling, he set sail on the 1st of August with twelve battalions [299] and nine troops of light dragoons, escorted by a squadron under Commodore Howe.
— from A History of the British Army, Vol. 2 First Part—to the Close of the Seven Years' War by Fortescue, J. W. (John William), Sir

"I always have considered those open lights dangerous, especially where high explosives are used.
— from The Iron Boys in the Mines; or, Starting at the Bottom of the Shaft by James R. Mears

Corners Wolford Grenville, N. R. W. G. Ferguson East Oro Oro Simcoe, N. R. William Simpson East Templeton Templeton Ottawa Lewis Dunning East Williamsburg Williamsburg Dundas Lindsay Pillar Eastwood Oxford, South Oxford, S. R. Henry Vansittart Eaton Eaton Compton J. McNicol Eddystone Haldimand Northumberl’d, W. R. M. Bradley Eden Bayham Elgin, E. R.
— from List of Post Offices in Canada, with the Names of the Postmasters ... 1864 by Canada. Post Office Department

These people still use what wood can be grown on the untillable land within transporting distance, and convert much wood into charcoal, making transportation over longer distances easier.
— from Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan by F. H. (Franklin Hiram) King