Her mother was a small, spare, light person, with a wandering eye, a very exiguous nose, and a large forehead, decorated with a certain amount of thin, much frizzled hair.
— from Daisy Miller: A Study by Henry James

He picked out the most active, explored the country round about, and observed, in the way by which the enemy was expected, a valley encompassed by hills 98 of moderate height.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

But rarely the larger number comes first with et : as, vīgintī et septem , V. 4, 123, twenty and seven .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

It is worth our curiosity to inquire into the causes of our present political evils; not the more obvious causes, which every man sees and laments, but those radical causes which lie hid from common observation; whose operations are imperceptible, but whose effects are visible, even to a vulgar eye.
— from A Collection of Essays and Fugitiv Writings On Moral, Historical, Political, and Literary Subjects by Noah Webster

We want excitement, and violent excitement.
— from Tour in England, Ireland, and France, in the years 1826, 1827, 1828 and 1829. with remarks on the manners and customs of the inhabitants, and anecdotes of distiguished public characters. In a series of letters by a German Prince. by Pückler-Muskau, Hermann, Fürst von

Now men are proudly reporting hundreds of cases of delivery without even a vaginal examination.
— from Psychotherapy Including the History of the Use of Mental Influence, Directly and Indirectly, in Healing and the Principles for the Application of Energies Derived from the Mind to the Treatment of Disease by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

The short enlistments were running out; dissatisfaction was everywhere; and very early one morning they had been compelled to evacuate their camp, leaving behind blankets, tents, and even their breakfasts cooking at the fire, for the British had followed them across the Hudson, and were close upon their heels.
— from Harper's Round Table, December 31, 1895 by Various

When full they are inevitably muddy, and when empty are very empty indeed; lifeless, and mute at the best, at the worst actually dry.
— from The Rivers and Streams of England by A. G. (Arthur Granville) Bradley

between the Prince and the English conspirators were pressed with earnestness and vigor; every concession demanded by the Prince was yielded without question by the agents of the Church party, and he bound himself to the invasion and the maintenance of Protestant supremacy.
— from The battle-fields of Ireland, from 1688 to 1691 including Limerick and Athlone, Aughrim and the Boyne. Being an outline history of the Jacobite war in Ireland, and the causes which led to it by Boyle, John, active 1867

To-day we enjoy a very exceptional calm.
— from Scott's Last Expedition Volume I Being the journals of Captain R. F. Scott by Robert Falcon Scott