Solutions to Puzzles must be accompanied by certificates from a Parent, Teacher, or other responsible person, stating that they are the sole and unaided work of the competitor.
— from Little Folks (September 1884) A Magazine for the Young by Various

After being confined for over thirty hours, he and Conseil were finally out of this cell.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

Once upon a time it was thought that Java and Mocha were the only worthwhile blend, but now we know that a Bogota coffee from Colombia, and a Bourbon Santos from Brazil, make a most satisfying drink.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Yet I shall not easily be persuaded, that it was the common practice of the Vandals to extirpate the olives, and other fruit trees, of a country where they intended to settle: nor can I believe that it was a usual stratagem to slaughter great numbers of their prisoners before the walls of a besieged city, for the sole purpose of infecting the air, and producing a pestilence, of which they themselves must have been the first victims.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

A remarkable instance of the elevating, refining influence of beauty has been demonstrated by a Chicago school-teacher, who fitted up in her school a "beauty corner" for her pupils.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

Do we not with our own eyes have to look upon much that is anything but comforting? Far better would it be if you would put before us what is comely and attractive, so that we might forget ourselves a little.”
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

Th' ascending pile Stood fixt her stately highth, and strait the dores Op'ning thir brazen foulds discover wide Within, her ample spaces, o're the smooth And level pavement: from the arched roof Pendant by suttle Magic many a row Of Starry Lamps and blazing Cressets fed With Naphtha and Asphaltus yeilded light As from a sky.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

The author of 'Old Grimes is Dead' commenced it, more than fifty years ago; then the cluster was pass'd on and accumulated by C. F. Harris; then further pass'd on and added to by the late Senator Anthony, from whom the whole collection has been bequeath'd to Brown University.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

The play selected as best calculated for the purpose, was the Milliner's Shop , the like of which the Sultan had noticed while passing through the great street of Pera—the windows filled with bonnets, dress-caps, crinolines, etc., and very handsome dolls, some quite as 'large as life,' decollé , and thanks to the miniature crinolines, often showing very well-made chaussures and ankles.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

One thing can be accepted without question; size is no proof of age, in comparing one tree with another; neither is the number of annual rings in a block cut from the side of a tree a reliable factor to determine age.
— from American Forest Trees by Henry H. Gibson

This promise of a renewed lease of life turned rugged natures to melting tenderness, and by contrast filled the soft with harsh and unnatural sentiments.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Such has been the final development of equal rights and British constitutional freedom in this South African Colony.
— from South Africa and the Boer-British War, Volume I Comprising a History of South Africa and its people, including the war of 1899 and 1900 by J. Castell (John Castell) Hopkins

2. The picture of a book, cut from a magazine, having the title blotted out, and showing only the words, "by Charlotte M. Yonge" (the author of "The Daisy Chain").
— from Bright Ideas for Entertaining by Linscott, Herbert B., Mrs.

Link arms in last bar of C. " A. B. C. Files, reversed, mark time, retire, advance, &c., as before, arms linked.
— from The Morris Book, Part 1 A History of Morris Dancing, With a Description of Eleven Dances as Performed by the Morris-Men of England by Cecil J. (Cecil James) Sharp

Then the task had been turned over to another 17 gang, and the Obray outfit, as it was commonly called, had been sent up from Texas into Montana, to take up the work of roadbed and bridge construction for the M. C. & D. Railroad.
— from Dave Porter's Great Search; Or, The Perils of a Young Civil Engineer by Edward Stratemeyer

There is a breeze coming from the north-west.
— from Mr. Midshipman Easy by Frederick Marryat