And in the mean time, the Prelates and their Faction may step in and invest themselves of their old tyrannie over our consciences, [pg 161] who if they once shall see us possessed of our own Inheritance, those Canaanites dare not offer to thrust us out.
— from The Acts Of The General Assemblies of the Church of Scotland by Church of Scotland. General Assembly

There are many of my own and the other sex still unmarried, pure, gentle, and loving old women, who, I think, would gladly enter matrimony.
— from Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 109, September 21, 1895 by Various

The most remarkable fact respecting the cirri, is, that in A. spongites , sulcata , cyathus , and glans , the fourth pair, instead of being identical in structure, as in all other genera, with the fifth and sixth pairs, has, on its anterior ramus, the pairs of spines more crowded together, with the little intermediate spines, and those in the dorsal tufts, a little longer than in the sixth cirrus; and between the pairs of spines, there occur some straight, upwardly pointed, very minute, and very thick spines or teeth.
— from A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 2 of 2) The Balanidæ, (or Sessile Cirripedes); the Verrucidæ, etc., etc. by Charles Darwin

The young Marquis of Lafayette, tall of stature, slim, urbane, presented the accepted type of the grand seigneur.
— from The Sword of Honor; or, The Foundation of the French Republic A Tale of The French Revolution by Eugène Sue

If one cluster is without a queen, they will join the other if near; but when distant, will be very likely to return to the old stock soon, unless put together.
— from Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained by M. (Moses) Quinby