A large portion of the cylinder had been uncovered, though its lower end was still embedded.
— from The War of the Worlds by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

There Pencroft observed,— “Suppose, that during our absence, Master Jup takes it into his head to draw up the ladder which he so politely returned to us yesterday?” “Let us tie its lower end down firmly,” replied Cyrus Harding.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

A second yell soon followed the first, when a rush of voices was heard pouring down the island, from its upper to its lower extremity, until they reached the naked rock above the caverns, where, after a shout of savage triumph, the air continued full of horrible cries and screams, such as man alone can utter, and he only when in a state of the fiercest barbarity.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

Still less could a bank afford to advance him any considerable part of his fixed capital; of the capital which the undertaker of an iron forge, for example, employs in erecting his forge and smelting-houses, his work-houses, and warehouses, the dwelling-houses of his workmen, etc.; of the capital which the undertaker of a mine employs in sinking his shafts, in erecting engines for drawing out the water, in making roads and waggon-ways, etc.; of the capital which the person who undertakes to improve land employs in clearing, draining, inclosing, manuring, and ploughing waste and uncultivated fields; in building farmhouses, with all their necessary appendages of stables, granaries, etc.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Mr Staunton informs us that in Lord Ellesmere's Folio, it is more like a defective Italic e than any other letter, but in the two copies of F 1 before us it is certainly Roman, whether 'c' or 'e'.
— from The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 4 of 9] by William Shakespeare

As a whole, there is inevitably something of sameness in the work, and the subject is unequal to its long expansion; yet its nature is such, there is so much of looseness in the plan, that it might have been doubled or trebled without incongruity.
— from International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science — Volume 1, No. 2, July 8, 1850 by Various

It was impossible that any of the Malays or lascars could have done the thing, and there were no other creatures, brute or human, upon the island large enough to have coped even for an instant with the ferocious brutality of the dead monster, except—von Horn's brain came to a sudden halt at the thought.
— from The Monster Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs

There Pencroft observed,— "Suppose, that during our absence, Master Jup takes it into his head to draw up the ladder which he so politely returned to us yesterday?" "Let us tie its lower end down firmly," replied Cyrus Harding.
— from Abandoned by Jules Verne

The cam z is made wedge shape by sloping from its upper to its lower end, and the end a 2 of the bolt is similarly formed, but in the reverse direction, so that when the piece is discharged the end a 2 will be made to spring in, allowing the hammer to pass readily, when the end a 2 again rests upon z as before.
— from Improvement in Fire-Arms and in the Apparatus Used Therewith United States Patent Office Application by Samuel Colt

And though his writing is extremely incorrect and unequal, though its literary effect is much injured by the insertion of statistical details which sometimes turn it for pages together into a mere set of tables, he has constant racy phrases, some of which have passed into the most honourable state of all—that of unidentified quotation—while more [Pg 29] deserve it.
— from A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) by George Saintsbury

In order to be able to use the incandescent lamps, Edison designed a new system of distributing the current through several circuits and between any number of lamps.
— from Inventing for Boys by A. Frederick (Archie Frederick) Collins

Frequently ladies imposed services and even hard and dangerous exploits upon their importuning lovers, either to test their love, or for the sake of sensation, or even to keep obstinate lovers at a distance.
— from Women of the Teutonic Nations by Hermann Schoenfeld