The curse of the liquor traffic is attracting, as never before, the attention of all civilized people; and national, State and local legislatures and governments are appointing commissions of inquiry, and gathering data and facts, with a view to its restriction.
— from Grappling with the Monster; Or, the Curse and the Cure of Strong Drink by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

conquistas y recuentros abidos con los naturales que sobrepujan en hechos de admiraçion no solo a los libros ya dichos sino a los que se escriben de los doçe pares de françia porque tanteado y mirado la fatales fuerças que los autores de aquellos tienpos les atribuyen
— from The Coronado Expedition, 1540-1542. Excerpted from the Fourteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1892-1893, Part 1. by George Parker Winship

It was hard to picture a big, gloomy prison anywhere near such a lovely land, or hundreds of sinful, unhappy men shut in behind high grey walls, seeing nothing of the beauty about them.
— from Paul the Courageous by Mabel Quiller-Couch

In the American custom-house at Nogales sat a lean, lank man gazing out of a window facing the south.
— from Jim Waring of Sonora-Town; Or, Tang of Life by Henry Herbert Knibbs

Every week since I’ve been gone I’ve had a note, sometimes a long letter from her; and not a word did I write until Christmas-time.
— from Over Periscope Pond Letters from Two American Girls in Paris October 1916-January 1918 by Esther Sayles Root

“Aye betters!” snapped the landlady, or as nearly snapped as lips like hers could snap.
— from Tom Pinder, Foundling: A Story of the Holmfirth Flood by D. F. E. Sykes

In a narrow street, a little lower down, is the exquisite Gothic façade of the Casa de Segovia, and turning to the left is another curious and beautiful church, La Vera Cruz, built by the Templars, and with a little chapel in it on the exact model of that of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 05, April 1867 to September 1867 by Various

A. N. SHERIFFS AND LORDS LIEUTENANT.
— from Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 134, May 22, 1852 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

But they sit about and never speak and look like ghosts," said Mrs. Whitaker.
— from The Outrage by Annie Vivanti

The arx itself, it should be remembered, had its separate wall within that of the city, a noble fragment of which, of exactly the same character as the town wall, is still to be seen in a narrow street a little lower down.
— from Studies of Travel: Italy by Edward A. (Edward Augustus) Freeman