The discovery that in the living subject the body of the uterus naturally inclines forward, so as to rest on the bladder, and that the body makes quite an angle with its cervix, altered the conception of things very materially.
— from Femina, A Work for Every Woman by John A. (John Alexander) Miller

Ay, give me the fluttering inhabitant of Ben Burke's cowskin vest; it is worth a thousand of those stuffed and artificial denizens, whose usual nest is figured satin and cut velvet.
— from The Crock of Gold: A Rural Novel by Martin Farquhar Tupper

The jealous fiend which had always lain dormant in his heart from the day when he had married pretty Hetty Armitage and discovered that she had no love to give to him was waking up now into full strength and vigor.
— from Dr. Rumsey's Patient: A Very Strange Story by L. T. Meade