This realm hath only three principal rivers, whereon a royal city may well be situated: Trent, in the north, Severn in the south-west, and Thames in the south-east; of the which Thames, both for the straight course in length reacheth furthest into the belly of the land, and for the breadth and stillness of the water is most navigable up and down the stream; by reason whereof London, standing almost in the middle of that course, is more commodiously served with provision of necessaries than any town standing upon the other two rivers can be, and doth also more easily communicate to the rest of the realm the commodities of her own intercourse and traffic.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

To these scandalous and scurrilous assertions I am in a position to give a decided and most emphatic contradiction.
— from The Young Dragoon: Every Day Life of a Soldier by Alfred W. (Alfred Wilks) Drayson

My mind flew back to an evening long ago—long, long ago it seemed—when another newspaper had told of another death, and my ears caught the echo of the identical question that had then fallen from her lips.
— from The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel by William John Locke

Direct Steam Pumps Compressed Air Elec- tricity Steam- Driven Rods Hydraulic Columns Bailing Rods Flexibility A A B D B A Reliability B B B A D A Mechanical Efficiency C D B A C D Capital Cost A B B D D —
— from Principles of Mining: Valuation, Organization and Administration by Herbert Hoover

(Wessel and Co.) D UET on a D ANISH M ELODY , composed for two performers, by F RED .
— from The Harmonicon. Part the First by Various

As soon as I fairly began to comply with the suggestion his young lady secretary, the daughter of a deceased and much esteemed congressman, trained a camera on me and the axe and secured a picture.
— from On a Donkey's Hurricane Deck A Tempestous Voyage of Four Thousand and Ninety-Six Miles Across the American Continent on a Burro, in 340 Days and 2 Hours, Starting Without a Dollar and Earning My Way by R. Pitcher (Robert Pitcher) Woodward

He's getting tired, and so am I. They now deny at the Foreign Office that anything has been decided about Carden, and this meddling by us (as they look at it) will surely cause a delay and may even cause a change of purpose.
— from The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I by Burton Jesse Hendrick

By limiting the power of sale, there was introduced into that kind of property a law which distinguished it from others, and placed it in a different and more elevated category.
— from Protestantism and Catholicity compared in their effects on the civilization of Europe by Jaime Luciano Balmes

And, distant as mine eye could wing its flight, To leftward now and now to right dispatch'd, That cornice equal in extent appear'd.
— from The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Purgatory, Complete by Dante Alighieri