After great labour, all seemed complete, yet numerous little streams still appeared; but as they were very small, and their sources quite undiscoverable, I left them in despair, trusting that the salt or the swelling of the wood would stop them.
— from Travels on the Amazon by Alfred Russel Wallace

But the opinion of a man's world still prefers to credit her success to some mysterious angelical quality, unstatable in lucid terms and having no more reality than the divine inspiration of an archbishop.
— from In Defense of Women by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken

Quite unlike in look to the main features of the planet’s face is this second set of markings which traverse its disk, and which the genius of Schiaparelli disclosed.
— from Mars and Its Canals by Percival Lowell

"I have just had to lie quiet until I learned the lesson He wanted me to learn years ago, and now He is making me so happy, and giving me back my work.
— from Esther : a book for girls by Rosa Nouchette Carey

Grape-juice-makers now determine the price of grapes for the region, and while the quantity used is less than that for table-grapes, the time is not distant when it will be greater.
— from Manual of American Grape-Growing by U. P. Hedrick