There were no mutual concessions: one stood erect, and the others yielded: and who can be ill-natured and bad-tempered when they encounter neither opposition nor indifference?
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

She closed with a cheerful budget of statistics, giving the exact number of needle-women who had starved, gone mad, or committed suicide during the past year; the enormous profits wrung by capitalists from the blood and muscles of their employes; and the alarming increase in the cost of living, which was about to plunge the nation into debt and famine, if not destruction generally.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

This gentleman is this afternoon arrived from Denmark; and that is my Lord Ride, who came yesterday from Bagdad; here is Captain Friese, from Cape Turnagain, and Captain Symmes, [432] from the interior of the earth; and Monsieur Jovaire, who came down this morning in a balloon; Mr. Hobnail, the reformer; and Reverend Jul Bat, who has [177] converted the whole torrid zone in his Sunday school; and Signer Torre del Greco, who extinguished Vesuvius by pouring into it the Bay of Naples; Spahr, the Persian ambassador; and Tul Wil Shan, the exiled nabob of Nepaul, whose saddle is the new moon.—But these are monsters of one day, and to-morrow will be dismissed to their holes and dens; for, in these rooms every chair is waited for.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Latin ejus leaving the gender undetermined, the Latin commentators were free to take either Nymphas or Nympha; and, as Nympha was common Latin form of Νύμφη, they would naturally adopt the female name.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

An extra train is probably best described by the engine name or number, as there is usually nothing else about a train so definite as this.
— from The Train Wire: A Discussion of the Science of Train Dispatching (Second Edition) by John Alexander Anderson

This gentleman is this afternoon arrived from Denmark; and that is my Lord Ride, who came yesterday from Bagdat; here is Captain Friese, from Cape Turnagain; and Captain Symmes, from the interior of the earth; and Monsieur Jovaire, who came down this morning in a balloon; Mr. Hobnail, the reformer; and Reverend Jul Bat, who has converted the whole torrid zone in his Sunday school; and Signor Torre del Greco, who extinguished Vesuvius by pouring into it the Bay of Naples; Spahi, the Persian ambassador; and Tul Wil Shan, the exiled nabob of Nepaul, whose saddle is the new moon.—But these are monsters of one day, and to-morrow will be dismissed to their holes and dens; for in these rooms every chair is waited for.
— from Essays — Second Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thirteen years ago PIQUE was first published in London, and up to the present time, notwithstanding the enormous number of new books that have been issued, the effect of which is to crowd the old ones out of sight, this remarkable novel has continued to have a large sale.
— from Adèle Dubois A Story of the Lovely Miramichi Valley in New Brunswick by Savage, William T., Mrs.

There is nothing in them excessive, nothing overwrought, nothing strained into turgidity, obscurity, and nonsense.
— from Literary and Social Essays by George William Curtis

While so much has been said of coaches, in the early numbers of "Notes and Queries" and elsewhere, very little notice has been taken of another mode of conveyance which has now become very important.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 44, August 31, 1850 by Various

‘After that they essayed now one, now another, mode of tilling the dear plot of ground, and they saw that the earth made wild fruits into fruits of the garden, by a kindly and caressing culture.’
— from The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by W. Y. (William Young) Sellar

The English notebooks of Nathaniel Hawthorne.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1968 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

A very few days will then make all the difference; and so it has often happened that men expecting to make a great bag have been quite disappointed, notwithstanding the evident number of nests; the shooting has been held a day or so too late.
— from Wild Life in a Southern County by Richard Jefferies

The enormous number of new facts brought to light by manipulating hypotheses could not but modify our view of scientific law.
— from Pragmatism by D. L. (David Leslie) Murray