If on filtering the solution, acidulating it with dilute nitric acid, and testing it with silver nitrate, a cloudy white precipitate be formed, which is insoluble in excess of the precipitant, and in nitric acid, but soluble in ammonia water, and blackened by lengthened exposure to light, corrosive sublimate is shown to be present in the substance examined.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume II by Richard Vine Tuson

What kind of a man is that to be managing a mine or to be partners with a big banker like Eells?
— from Wunpost by Dane Coolidge

Should he be found now, no district attorney on the face of the earth could induce the chief to believe that he was any other than the real criminal; nor would any bribe be large enough to compensate McCann for the consequences of losing so important a prisoner.
— from The Celebrity, Volume 04 by Winston Churchill

Yet he must have known whence it came, for there was a bold “Bellevue Lodge” embossed in red on the flap of the envelope.
— from The Nebuly Coat by John Meade Falkner

The main influence came from the 17th century—in particular from the etchings and line engravings of Sébastien Le Clerc and from the etchings of Jacques Callot, whose simple system of swelling parallel lines, with occasional cross-hatchings, was adopted by both line engravers and woodcutters.
— from John Baptist Jackson: 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut by Jacob Kainen