Then I should think it would be better to wash all linen with pearlash than with soap, as, in the latter case, the alkali being already combined with oil, must be less efficacious in extracting grease.
— from Conversations on Chemistry, V. 1-2 In Which the Elements of that Science Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments by Mrs. (Jane Haldimand) Marcet

"Look out, don't slip into the gully," whispered one member, but loud enough for Tom Atwood to hear.
— from Dave Porter and His Classmates; Or, For the Honor of Oak Hall by Edward Stratemeyer

In this world one must be like everybody else if he doesn’t want to provoke scorn or envy or jealousy.
— from A Double Barrelled Detective Story by Mark Twain

If one cannot afford large hawks and falcons one can at least keep sparrow hawks; and "sparrow hawk" is the nickname for poor sires who only maintain birds large enough to kill partridges and quails.
— from Life on a Mediaeval Barony A Picture of a Typical Feudal Community in the Thirteenth Century by William Stearns Davis

He then descends to the ground where one may be lucky enough, if near at hand, to hear a low musical cluck from the excited bird.
— from Life Histories of North American Shore Birds, Part 1 (of 2) by Arthur Cleveland Bent