Mr. Adams exhibited, for the entertainment of the curious: Miss Jenny Cameron's shoes; Adam's eldest daughter's hat; the heart of the famous Bess Adams, that was hanged at Tyburn with Lawyer Carr, January 18, 1736–37; Sir Walter Raleigh's tobacco pipe; Vicar of Bray's clogs; engine to shell green peas with; teeth that grew in a fish's belly; Black Jack's ribs; the very comb that Abraham combed his son Isaac and Jacob's head with; Wat Tyler's spurs; rope
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

He went through it a second time, very carefully, then folded it up and left it where he had found it.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

The very copious index herein is entirely the work of my professional clerk, Mr. H. A. Kenward, for which I offer him my thanks.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

He bought the very cheapest one he could find, plain wood, stained.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

It was painful to stand near the stable-door, and hear the various complaints against the keepers when a horse was taken out for use.
— from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass

Moreover I visited both Thebes and Heliopolis for this very cause, namely because I wished to know whether the priests at these places would agree in their accounts with those at Memphis; for the men of Heliopolis are said to be the most learned in records of the Egyptians.
— from An Account of Egypt by Herodotus

Less precise in its limits, more diffuse and less compact than the caste or the sect, the class represents today the veritable crowd in a dynamic state, which can in a moment's time descend from that place and become statically a crowd.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

As usual, this manœuvre was ill performed, and as also generally happens, the van came under fire before the centre and rear, and bore the brunt of the injury.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

The Villain confessed his sacrilege, and was only released by the separation of his hand from his body.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

In the open pumice fields of the rim area, Douglas phlox ( Phlox douglasii ), sulphur flower ( Eriogonum umbellatum ), and the low desert lupine ( Lupinus aridus ) contribute to the varied color scheme, later transformed into red and gold by the autumnal foliage of Newberry’s knotweed ( Polygonum newberryi ).
— from Crater Lake National Park, Oregon by Anonymous

The cells lining the innermost end of the capsule, i.e. that at the side of the ovum turned away from the atrial cavity, become at the same time very columnar.
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 3 (of 4) A Treatise on Comparative Embryology: Vertebrata by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour

In the late campaign we were prevented from striking a great blow through this very cause alone.
— from Curiosities of Civilization by Andrew Wynter

The whole thing was melancholy to see, after last night's stir, with the dim lamp or two twinkling along the gloom of the steerage, the dead quietness of the ship, and the smothered sort of glare under the captain's cot bringing out the mere litter on the floor, to the very cockroaches putting their ugly feelers out of one of his shoes in a corner; he shut his eyes, and lay for a minute or two seemingly asleep, only murmuring something about a breeze, and then asking them to shove out the port, 'twas so close.
— from The Green Hand: Adventures of a Naval Lieutenant by George Cupples

That very Chub I mean to put into your hands presently; sit you but down in the shade, and stay but a little while; and I'll warrant you, I'll bring him to you.
— from The Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton

Actors, tragic vs. comic.
— from Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch

IN WHICH THE VICOMTE CONTINUES HIS STUDIES X. IN WHICH HONORA WIDENS HER HORIZON XI.
— from A Modern Chronicle — Volume 01 by Winston Churchill

Examination of the patient discloses catarrh of the pharynx and of the larynx; congested and swollen mucous membrane; pillars of the fauces swollen and unduly developed; all these symptoms accompanied by paresis of the vocal cords, which are red or yellow and do not approximate well.
— from The Voice: Its Production, Care and Preservation by Frank E. (Frank Ebenezer) Miller