His books are not as nice as mine, and he wanted to have them extremely, when I told him how interesting they were.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Positing what protasis would the contraction for such several schemes become a natural and necessary apodosis?
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

Her course must, therefore, have been about northeast, as nearly as possible, directly before the wind; and whatever old Vlacco might have said to the contrary, she must have been steered by no timid or ignorant hands.
— from The Pirate of the Mediterranean: A Tale of the Sea by William Henry Giles Kingston

Royal commissioners were yet to be seen, and gold-laced Parisian barons at Newport and Norwich, and pirate Blackbeards tacking from the Shoals, and leaving sweethearts to wring ghostly hands there to this day.
— from Three Heroines of New England Romance Their true stories herein set forth by Mrs Harriet Spoffard, Miss Louise Imogen Guiney, and Miss Alice Brown by Alice Brown

Then he packed the basket all neat and nice, and ate a little piece of the cake when Mr. 'Coon had stepped out to see how the chicken was coming along, and when the chicken was ready he cut it all up nicely, and he tasted of that a little, too, [Pg 278] while Mr. Crow was getting on his best picnic things to go.
— from The Hollow Tree Snowed-In Book Being a continuation of stories about the Hollow Tree and Deep Woods people by Albert Bigelow Paine

Trial by jury has been introduced; but as natives are not allowed to act as jurymen this has often led to serious miscarriages of justice and to excessive severities.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

Now, as I went, I stumbled over a small mound, then halted all at once, for at one end of this was a very small cross, rudely constructed and painted white, and tacked to this a strip of lettered tin, bearing a name and number, and beneath these the words, “One of the best.”
— from Great Britain at War by Jeffery Farnol

H alibu t , A llegr o , V er b , A ndalusi a , N arcoti c , N itri c , A capulc o .
— from Enquire Within Upon Everything The Great Victorian Domestic Standby by Robert Kemp Philp

The next question is, Why should this particular portion of mankind be a nation, and not a single prophet, or a school of philosophers, or a church universal?
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Isaiah, Volume 2 (of 2) by George Adam Smith

In a Socialist society the industry or good harvest of one year would have for effect a diminution of labor the next; or greater comfort or luxury next year for the same labor; no man's labor would be lost, and the bountifulness of Nature would be a blessing and not, as now, a misfortune.
— from Twentieth Century Socialism: What It Is Not; What It Is: How It May Come by Edmond Kelly

All along the coast the birds are nearly as numerous as the fishes, and many islands are solely occupied by them as breeding-places.
— from Foot-prints of Travel; Or, Journeyings in Many Lands by Maturin Murray Ballou

This has been a normal and natural application of economic laws, which has placed agriculture on a foundation which is undeniably sound and beginning to be satisfactory.
— from State of the Union Addresses by Calvin Coolidge