Pryors Sholder was put out of place yesterday Carrying Meat and is painfull to day.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

But if you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will find that no medium is admitted between violence and evasion.
— from What's Wrong with the World by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

It is a part of our profession, you know.
— from Gordon Keith by Thomas Nelson Page

This incorrectness of tone relations can, however, be greatly lessened by the device of reducing the quantity of the blue rays, by interposing a piece of optically plane yellow-tinted glass, by using the sensitive plates tinted with certain coal-tar dyes, which are now prepared and sold under the name of “ortho-chromatic plates,” or by both methods combined.
— from Discoveries and Inventions of the Nineteenth Century by Robert Routledge

Let him press against something soft, as his own person, or his clothes, or a lump of clay, and he sees that the part or object pressed yields little or much, according to the amount of the muscular strain.
— from Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative; Vol. 2 of 3 Library Edition (1891), Containing Seven Essays not before Republished, and Various other Additions. by Herbert Spencer

As for you, there are plenty of other people you can fool with lies—and they won't even find you out.”
— from The Gadfly by E. L. (Ethel Lillian) Voynich

And perhaps it was Hopeful who would steal away from us, and the others play on; or perhaps you into the sunlight that maddened the sheltered bird to flit and sing in the orchard where the little child we loved played—not yet sad, but how much beloved; not yet weary of passing shadows, and simple creatures, and boy's rough gifts and cold hands.
— from Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance by Walter De la Mare

On polished oak or parqueterie you would probably have a bad fall.
— from How to Behave and How to Amuse: A Handy Manual of Etiquette and Parlor Games by George H. (George Henry) Sandison

From the extracts already presented, it is manifest that our American translator has followed the text of his author with a scrupulous exactitude which required unusual self-command from a poet of original powers; yet he is often so truly and nobly poetical that many will overlook the superiority of his scholarship.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 15, Nos. 85-90, April 1872-September 1872 A Monthly Magazine by Various

When shading a flower select two colours that are distinct in tone but not jarring in their contrast; thus, cream-white used for the outer petals can be finished with pale blue, yellow pink, pure orange, or pale yellow for its centre petals; scarlet red outside petals with black inner petals, bright blue outside petals with lemon yellow or terra-cotta red inside petals, and every one of these colours are allowable when working bunches of flowers scattered over the whole of a five o'clock tea-cloth or fireplace curtains.
— from The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII: No. 353, October 2, 1886. by Various