and - 79 - was conversing outside Salle II.—that he was now, positively, on his way up the incline leading into Salle I., and would be upon us any minute.
— from The Backwash of War The Human Wreckage of the Battlefield as Witnessed by an American Hospital Nurse by Ellen N. (Ellen Newbold) La Motte

It might almost be thought that the ruddy stain upon its breast-feathers was the proof-mark of some late victory, where the feathers had been imbrued in the victim’s blood; but I will not venture upon the imagery lest it should jar.
— from The Rosery Folk by George Manville Fenn

If applied fairly thickly with a fine brush it will efface any faulty ink marks, and may also be used to introduce lights into shading which has been worked up too solid.
— from A Handbook of Illustration by A. Horsley (Alfred Horsley) Hinton

Who cannot look upon their inner life in such a spirit of tranquil beauty, but see in it a tragedy which must work itself out in discords?
— from In Paradise: A Novel. Vol. I. by Paul Heyse

It coalesces with a , e , i , o ; but has rather in these combinations the force of the w consonant, as quaff , quest , quit , quite , languish ; sometimes in ui the i loses its sound, as in juice .
— from A Grammar of the English Tongue by Samuel Johnson