The Hetton railway was opened in 1822, and the assembled crowd were delighted at beholding a single engine draw seventeen loaded trucks after it, at the extraordinary rate of four miles an hour—nearly as fast as a man could walk.
— from Biographies of Working Men by Grant Allen

Each of the Fourteen Counties into which New Brunswick is divided, including the City and County of St. John, shall be an Electoral District; The City of St. John shall also be a separate Electoral District.
— from The British North America Act, 1867 by Anonymous

Coals and crockery," he enumerated with slow unction, "a saucepan, a coffee-pot, a tea-pot, a broom, and some exceedingly dirty dusters.
— from Cleo The Magnificent; Or, The Muse of the Real: A Novel by Louis Zangwill

IV.—His Moral Code is arrived at by a somewhat elaborate deduction from the great Law of Nature enjoining Benevolence or Promotion of the Common Good of all rational beings.
— from Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics by Alexander Bain

An Ersatz Division of the Guard was engaged near Lunéville, and Bavarian and Saxon Ersatz Divisions appeared on the Upper Meurthe.
— from The Battle of the Marne by G. H. (George Herbert) Perris

Then, before I knew it, she was talking briskly and brightly about something entirely different; and two minutes later I found myself alone outside of her room.
— from Mary Marie by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

But they laughed and yelled and shouted and seemed to enjoy the excitement and at last won a stand, waist deep in the flood, and by almost superhuman efforts dragged their craft to the water above the cataract.
— from The Radio Detectives in the Jungle by A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt) Verrill