I've six days still to run; after that (gloomily), why (with a reckless laugh), I shall be Jack Oakhurst again.
— from Two Men of Sandy Bar: A Drama by Bret Harte

Dr. Faraday therefore arranges substances in three classes, with regard to their relation to magnets:—those affected by the magnet when at rest, like iron, steel, and nickel, which possess ordinary magnetic properties; those affected when in motion, in which electric currents are evolved by the inductive force of the magnet, such as copper; and, lastly, those which are perfectly indifferent to the magnet, whether at rest or in motion.
— from On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences by Mary Somerville

He seems to have improved in appearance as he grew older; but was always 'rather low in stature, and plain in person, though not disagreeably so; [105] whilst his amiable disposition [106] and sociability ensured him the esteem and friendship of all who were acquainted with him.'
— from Cornish Worthies: Sketches of Some Eminent Cornish Men and Families, Volume 2 (of 2) by Walter H. (Walter Hawken) Tregellas

In ascending these rapids it is often necessary to alight from the canoe and walk in the river, whose waters are rather low in such places, especially near the banks.
— from Portage Paths: The Keys of the Continent by Archer Butler Hulbert

It is as though they spread "faith" all over the Word, as red lead is spread over writing so that nothing underneath shows; if anything does show, it is absorbed by faith and declared to be faith.
— from Angelic Wisdom about Divine Providence by Emanuel Swedenborg

Brodrick wrote (at rather longer intervals) saying how happy the children were, and how entirely comfortable he was with Gertrude.
— from The Creators: A Comedy by May Sinclair

We are rather lazy, I suppose.—I was reading, though, an excellent article upon Settlements in one of the current magazines only the other day.
— from Hagar by Mary Johnston

It does not apply, by day, to cases in which a ship sees another ahead crossing her own course; or by night, to cases where the red light of one ship is opposed to the red light of the other, or where the green, light of one ship is opposed to the green light of the other, or where a red light without a green light, or a green light without a red light, is seen ahead, or where both green and red lights are seen anywhere but ahead.
— from Sailing by E. F. (Edward Frederick) Knight

"Because," he replied, with a change of tone so swift as to be almost startling, "as soon as I take full Orders, it is my purpose, with God's help and under Father Philip's advice, to become a missionary, not a missionary to the heathen, as we are pleased to call them, or to the infinitely more degraded heathen of our own country, but to such people as you, you who are really living in sin without knowing it.
— from The Missionary by George Chetwynd Griffith

It was a reported lapse in some other portion of Ike's anatomy that had led me to scramble along the landwash to the cottage.
— from Labrador Days Tales of the Sea Toilers by Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason, Sir