'Let us not carp at little faults, but rejoice over the real and abundant good that we find here: he surpasses all the rest.' "'Not so.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

I must needs confess, Octavio , there is great eloquence in a pair of bracelets of five thousand crowns: it is an argument to prove your passion, that has more prevailing reason in it, than either Seneca or Tully could have urged; nor can a lover write or speak in any language so significant, and very well to be understood, as in that silent one of presenting.
— from Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister by Aphra Behn

It is as foolish and hazardous to attempt to 'harden' infants by plunging them into cold water, as it is by carrying them with uncovered necks, chests, and limbs into the keen and damp air.
— from The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother by George H. (George Henry) Napheys

In a tall conical stem, such as that of a palm-tree, we can see not only these principles in the construction of the cylindrical trunk, but we can observe, towards the apex, the bundles of fibre curving over and intercrossing orthogonally with one another, exactly after the fashion of our stress-lines in Fig. 332 ; but of course, in this case, we are still dealing with tensile members, the opposite bundles taking on in turn, as the tree sways, the alternate function of resisting tensile strain 621 . Let us now come, at last, to the mechanical structure of bone, of which we find a well-known and classical illustration in the various bones of the human leg.
— from On Growth and Form by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

Must we not say that though the onion-coat hypothesis is dead, its spirit is traceable, under a transcendental form, even in the conclusions of its antagonists? Let us now consider another leading geological doctrine, introduced to us by the cases just mentioned.
— from Illustrations of Universal Progress: A Series of Discussions by Herbert Spencer

When the birds are caught, he can put them into one of those unoccupied negro cabins and lock them up until he is ready to send them off.”
— from The Boy Trapper by Harry Castlemon

We whizzed through the French country, catching glimpses of little towns, with red-roofed cottages clustered about the inevitable church and chateau, until night came and looking out of the window was no longer profitable.
— from Kent Knowles: Quahaug by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

The Prince, having promised to use no coercion, and loyally adhering to his pledge, had only with extreme difficulty restrained the violence of the Hollanders and Zealanders, who were determined, by fair means or foul, to restore the capital city to its natural place within his stadholderate.
— from The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1574-84) by John Lothrop Motley

She had long known that she was the child of a Thorne; now she knew also that she was no cousin of the Thornes of Ullathorne; no cousin, at least, in the world's ordinary language, no niece indeed of her uncle, unless by his special permission that she should be so.
— from Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope

Let us now consider a less extreme and more familiar case.
— from Darwinism (1889) An exposition of the theory of natural selection, with some of its applications by Alfred Russel Wallace