As he was also studying music and composed quite nicely, I succeeded in being on terms of the greatest intimacy with him.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

I know now that chance has brought before me M. Pierre Aronnax, Professor of Natural History at the Museum of Paris, entrusted with a scientific mission abroad, Conseil, his servant, and Ned Land, of Canadian origin, harpooner on board the frigate Abraham Lincoln of the navy of the United States of America.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

At length a large number of runaways were assembled; stolen mules, and corn gathered from the fields, and bacon filched from smoke-houses, had been conveyed into the woods.
— from Twelve Years a Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana by Solomon Northup

He was a shy man; a child might pose him in a minute—indolent and procrastinating to the last degree.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

The Baron von Riechenbach, in his Researches on Magnetism, &c. , explains the cause of somewhat similar extraordinary appearances in the following manner:— "High on the Brocken there are rocky summits which are strongly magnetic, and cause the needle to deviate: these rocks contain disseminated magnetic iron ore; ...
— from Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 97, September 6, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

Its owner was at that moment busy with a surgeon making a census of the crippled lads in the brush-shop, the most miserable of all the Society’s charges, as a preliminary to fitting them out with artificial limbs.
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

He was a strong man and clean—how much stronger and better than Hurstwood and Drouet she only half formulated to herself, but the difference was painful.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

In this Order the word "animal" shall mean any cow, heifer, bull, bullock, ox, calf, sheep, lamb, goat, or swine; and the word "Inspector" shall include any Inspector appointed under this Order, or under any of the said revoked Orders.
— from On the cattle plague: or, Contagious typhus in horned cattle. Its history, origin, description, and treatment by Honoré Bourguignon

The persons who used those crutches must have been carried hither, lame and suffering, and helpless as young children; and they walked away strong men and cured.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 01, April to September, 1865 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Various

Byron was at school, Moore at college; Hogg had not spoken, and Southey’s fame was still to make.
— from Thomas Campbell by J. Cuthbert (James Cuthbert) Hadden

" It was a sad mistake, and clouds of distrust gathered in the morning sky of his reign.
— from The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, Vol. 1 (of 2) or, Illustrations, by Pen And Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence by Benson John Lossing

The turning movement by Sudley Springs was a skilful manœuvre, and completely surprised both Johnston and Beauregard.
— from Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War by G. F. R. (George Francis Robert) Henderson

She's not even a lady; she's nothing but a poor woman, who has to support herself with her needle,—or rather with a sewing machine, and cutting and fitting,—and I think it's just outrageous for papa to tell me I must ask her pardon.
— from Elsie's Vacation and After Events by Martha Finley

And the Bhilla, who was a strong man, and cruel, dragged [ 54 ] out the husband, and tied him firmly to a tree, in order that he might next day offer him to Bhavání.
— from The Kathá Sarit Ságara; or, Ocean of the Streams of Story by active 11th century Somadeva Bhatta

Over Rome itself there was a strange massing and curving of the clouds.
— from Italy, the Magic Land by Lilian Whiting