If you desert me, and side with the Sergeant, on the evidence before you—if the only rational explanation you can see is, that Miss Rachel and Mr. Luker must have got together, and that the Moonstone must be now in pledge in the money-lender’s house—I own, I can’t blame you for arriving at that conclusion.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

Having observed this to occur regularly every year, he ventured to relinquish the slow and circuitous coasting route, and stretched boldly from the mouth of the Arabian Gulf across the ocean, and was carried by the western monsoon to Musiris, on the Malabar coast.
— from The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary: A Curious Fable of the Cotton Plant. To Which Is Added a Sketch of the History of Cotton and the Cotton Trade by Henry Lee

If these you dare (although unjust success Empow'rs you now unpunish'd to oppress), Revolving empire you and yours may doom— (Rome all subdu'd—yet Vandals vanquish'd Rome)
— from The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade by the British Parliament (1808), Volume I by Thomas Clarkson

'And why then won't your ladyship give it up to her?' 'Because,' answered she, 'the quiet surrender of an estate was never yet read of in romances.' ''Tis the only rational excuse you can assign,' said I. 'Dinner is on the table,' said the butler coming to the door.
— from The Heroine by Eaton Stannard Barrett

A few commonplaces were exchanged until the arrival of Mr. Rosenbaum's order, when the other remarked,— "Evidently you do not find the cuisine of the Clifton House entirely satisfactory."
— from That Mainwaring Affair by A. Maynard (Anna Maynard) Barbour

Though the exact words of the above-mentioned Code in Brass have not come down to us, they are (like the Twelve Tables of Rome, eighty years later in date, were in relation to Roman jurisprudence) the foundation of Chinese Criminal Law as it exists to-day, modified, of course, dynasty by dynasty.
— from Ancient China Simplified by Edward Harper Parker

Thus, in the xanthic series the flowers of the Nyctago jalapa may be yellow, yellow-orange, or red; those of Rosa eglantina yellow-orange or orange-red; those of nasturtium from yellow to orange; the flowers of Ranunculus asiaticus present all the colors of red up to green; those of the Hieracium staticefolium , and of some other yellow Chicoraceæ and of some Leguminosæ like the lotus, become greenish-yellow when dried, etc.
— from Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, July 1899 Volume LV, No. 3, July 1899 by Various