When the midsummer vacation approached, no indecent manifestations of joy were exhibited by the leaden-eyed young gentlemen assembled at Doctor Blimber’s.
— from Dickens As an Educator by James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes

Now it is apparent, and cannot be denied by any, but that those Virtues are not in many of the Persons expressed by the Titles they bear; neither will they allow to speak so to such, in whom these Virtues are, unless they be so dignified by outward Princes.
— from An Apology for the True Christian Divinity Being an explanation and vindication of the principles and doctrines of the people called Quakers by Robert Barclay

With its numerous blood-vessels, lymphatic vessels, and nerves; its millions of papillæ and pores and sweat ducts; its innumerable hair-follicles with their sebaceous glands and muscles; its odoriferous glands and special pigment-bearing cells, it is well equipped to perform the various duties assigned it.
— from Health: How to get it and keep it. The hygiene of dress, food, exercise, rest, bathing, breathing, and ventilation. by Walter V. Woods

The wide sidewalks are here covered with stationary verandas, as noticed in most of the colonial cities and towns.
— from Under the Southern Cross Or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands by Maturin Murray Ballou

Grape-growing in this region is similar in all respects to that of the Chautauqua belt, the same varieties and nearly identical methods of pruning, cultivation, spraying and harvesting being employed.
— from Manual of American Grape-Growing by U. P. Hedrick