Had we not met with some similar expressions of English or American blunderers, "the act or action of being smitten ," would be accounted a downright Irish bull; and as to this ultra notion of neologizing all our passive verbs, by the addition of " being ,"—with the author's cool talk of " the presentation of this theory, and [ the ] consequent suppression of that hitherto employed ,"—there is a transcendency in it, worthy of the most sublime aspirant among grammatical newfanglers.
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

Exposed to those innumerable modifications of conditions which the earth's surface afforded, here in amount of light, there in amount of heat, and elsewhere in the mineral quality of its aqueous medium, this extremely changeable substance must have undergone, now one, now another, of its countless metamorphoses.
— from Creation or Evolution? A Philosophical Inquiry by George Ticknor Curtis

Behind the aerial grace of the façade with its bewildering embroidery of yellowing marbles, rarely carved, its jewelled canopies of mosaic, its Lombard colonnades and soaring pinnacles, not even Time, the great artist who puts the crown of beauty upon all the works of man, can veil the ugly nudity of nave and transept.
— from A Little Pilgrimage in Italy by Olave M. (Olave Muriel) Potter

We 'll do the trimblin' then, and we 'll git white around the gills— He'll show us nerve o' nerves, and he 'ull show us skill o' skills!
— from Rubáiyát of Doc Sifers by James Whitcomb Riley

And James appeared at that moment so vexed at the turn affairs were taking in France, so wounded in his self-love, and so bewildered by the ubiquitous nature of nets and pitfalls spreading over Europe by Spain, that he really seemed waking from his delusion.
— from Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War, 1614-17 by John Lothrop Motley

and Leverrier ( q. v .), who were guided to the spot where they found it from the effect of its neighbourhood on the movements of Uranus. Nerbudda , or Narbada , a sacred river of India; has its source in the Amarkantak plateau of the Deccan, and flows westward, a rapid body of greenish-blue water, through the great valley between the Vindhya and Satpura Mountains, reaching the Gulf of Cambay after a course of 800 m., the last 30 of which are navigable.
— from The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall

As around all white habitations in frontier lands, we found the usual number of natives, although in this case they were here for the [Pg 24] commendable object of seeking employment in catching salmon whenever the run should commence.
— from Along Alaska's Great River A Popular Account of the Travels of an Alaska Exploring Expedition along the Great Yukon River, from Its Source to Its Mouth, in the British North-West Territory, and in the Territory of Alaska by Frederick Schwatka

T HE L AW OF THE U NIFORMITY OF N ATURE .
— from A Class Room Logic Deductive and Inductive, with Special Application to the Science and Art of Teaching by George Hastings McNair