He boasted to me, with a low chuckling laugh, that most men, in respect to himself, wore windows in their bosoms, and was wont to follow up such assertions by direct and very startling proofs of his intimate knowledge of my own.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

—The plants that have remained in the ground during the winter, if not disturbed, will send up stalks as before described, and ripen their seeds at the close of the summer.
— from The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. by Fearing Burr

Mr. John Murray, one of the staff of naturalists on board that vessel, propounded a new theory of coral-reefs, and maintained that the view that they were formed by subsidence was one that was no longer tenable; these objections have been supported by Professor Alexander Agassiz in the United States, and by Dr. A. Geikie, and Dr. H. B. Guppy in this country.
— from Coral Reefs; Volcanic Islands; South American Geology — Complete by Charles Darwin

She stood up, slim and beautifully dressed, and gathered up the women with a smile.
— from Dangerous Days by Mary Roberts Rinehart

The subspecies constrictor , priapus and helvigularis that are characteristic of forested habitats in the eastern United States are black dorsally and have their ventral surfaces suffused to a large extent with dark or dusky coloring.
— from Natural History of the Racer Coluber constrictor by Henry S. (Henry Sheldon) Fitch

Slavery, which Aristotle thought a law of Nature, which Christianity tolerated, which modern states, such as England, France, the United States and Brazil, defended and protected by law, was everywhere abolished some years ago.
— from Morals and the Evolution of Man by Max Simon Nordau

"God save you," said his reverence Father Miles, who was coming up slowly, and Biddy dropped a decent courtesy and devout blessing in return.
— from Strangers and Wayfarers by Sarah Orne Jewett

He wishes that some foreign power would invade the United States and burn down all the churches in the country, and that the bride, the bridegroom and all the other persons interested in the present wedding were dead and in hell.
— from A Book of Burlesques by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken