A wide stretch it was of gorse and heather, with trees here and there, singly and in groups, the greater part of it some eighty or ninety feet above the level of the adjoining North Sea and, roughly speaking, forty feet above that of the plain, ten miles in width or thereabouts, following the coast northwards for ever so many miles from the left bank of the demure and rather dull river Deben.
— from Through East Anglia in a Motor Car by James Edmund Vincent

If they travelled in one direction at one season of the year, and in an opposite at another, we might suppose that the vegetation on which the caterpillars feed was at one time more abundant in the north-west, at another in the south-east; but during the five years I was in Central America, I was always on the look-out for them, and never saw any return swarms of butterflies.
— from The Naturalist in Nicaragua by Thomas Belt

It is for this reason that Switzerland, which in former times abstained entirely from sending permanent envoys, has abandoned her former practice and nowadays sends and receives several.
— from International Law. A Treatise. Volume 1 (of 2) Peace. Second Edition by L. (Lassa) Oppenheim

The following seems an exact analogue of the above problem:—A number is selected at random, find the chance that another number selected at random shall be greater than the former;—the answer surely must be that the chance is unity, viz.
— from The Logic of Chance, 3rd edition An Essay on the Foundations and Province of the Theory of Probability, With Especial Reference to Its Logical Bearings and Its Application to Moral and Social Science and to Statistics by John Venn

These Ways are cut out of a nitrous Stone, and run several miles like a City under ground, which they call a Labyrinth."
— from Mazes and Labyrinths: A General Account of Their History and Development by W. H. Matthews

Sir though I am not Spleenatiue, and rash, [Sidenote: For though | spleenatiue rash,]
— from The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark A Study with the Text of the Folio of 1623 by William Shakespeare

“No, I think we’ll go over there and sit down and not snoop,” answered Roy severely.
— from Captain Chub by Ralph Henry Barbour

So the Pope accepted them, made them a new religions Order; and they did what the Mendicant Friars had done three hundred years before,—they fanned a new spirit, and rapidly spread over Europe, over all the countries to which Catholic adventurers had penetrated, and became the most efficient allies that the popes ever had.
— from Beacon Lights of History, Volume 3 part 2: Renaissance and Reformation by John Lord