For example, wheat embryos which, according to recent investigations of Crocker and Harrington, have a high catalytic activity, were found of no therapeutic value in relation to infantile scurvy (Hess, 3).
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

Congress voted, in reply, that "it should in no event be damaged, for they had no doubt of being able to recover it, even though the enemy should obtain possession of it for a time.
— from The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn Including a new and circumstantial account of the battle of Long island and the loss of New York, with a review of events to the close of the year by Henry Phelps Johnston

Its fortunes have been various; in Revolutionary times it served as quarters for a stud, but has since been turned over to religious uses again, and is now occupied by a congregation of the Fathers of the Holy Ghost.
— from Rambles in Brittany by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

"I am very tired," said Valencia; "I really think I shall go to bed."
— from Two Years Ago, Volume II. by Charles Kingsley

{84} "The very nature of the material of which this building is mainly constructed, viz., iron, requires that it should be painted.
— from The Crystal Palace: Its Architectural History and Constructive Marvels by Fowler, Charles, Jr.

“The scenes of grief and misery I witnessed in some of the villages I rode through, I shall remember till my dying day.
— from O'er Many Lands, on Many Seas by Gordon Stables

That it was written in a single night seems extraordinary when viewed in relation to its sustained beauty; but it is done in a breath, and has all the excellencies of fervour and force that result upon that method of composition only.
— from Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti by Caine, Hall, Sir

Presently Rossetti came in, for no purpose that I can remember, except to say that he had enjoyed my visit I replied that I should never forget it.
— from Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti by Caine, Hall, Sir

As much vocal virtuosity is required to interpret successfully the music of Falstaff, in Verdi’s opera, as is necessary for Maometto Secondo or Semiramide by Rossini.
— from Style in Singing by W. E. Haslam

A recognition of the emptiness of life, necessarily hopeless when thus viewed in relation to its sensuous and intellectual possibilities only.
— from Browning and Dogma Seven Lectures on Browning's Attitude Towards Dogmatic Religion by Ethel M. Naish