Valerius Antias Lastly, Valerius Antias excelled all his predecessors in prolixity as well as in puerile story-telling.
— from The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) by Theodor Mommsen

The order Caliciei consists of horizontal lichens, with generally an ill-developed crust; the discs, which are at first covered by a veil, are contained in a stalked, or more rarely sessile, excipulum, looking like little flat-headed pins stuck into the crust; the veil at length vanishes, and exposes a pulverulent mass of spores, which adhere so loosely in the Calicium inquinans, that they soil the finger if touched; in other cases they come out of their ascus like little necklaces.
— from On Molecular and Microscopic Science, Volume 1 (of 2) by Mary Somerville

It is said that ‘the cells which are known to possess phagocytocic properties are the leucocytes, mucous corpuscles, connective tissue cells, endothelia of blood vessels and lymphatic vessels, alveolar eypithelium of [Pg 272] the lungs, and the cells of the spleen, bone, marrow and lymphatic glands.’
— from Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say by Martha Meir Allen

2.—Participles retain the essential meaning of their verbs; and, like verbs , are either active-transitive, active-intransitive, passive , or neuter , in their signification.
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

They actually judged of the children's capacities by their size when they began to examine them, and gave Abel a Quintus Curtius, and Eugène De Viris , and little Victor an Epitome.
— from My Memoirs, Vol. III, 1826 to 1830 by Alexandre Dumas