Then they were covered with neat white labels, and packed in cases and delivered to all parts of the United States.
— from An Anarchist Woman by Hutchins Hapgood

In the book stores I visited I was always addressed in English, and found French, German and English and even American books upon the shelves; and more newspapers and magazines are published in Copenhagen, a Danish friend declares, than in any other city in Europe of its size.
— from Through Scandinavia to Moscow by William Seymour Edwards

His nose is large, yet not disproportionately so; his head well made, though a phrenologist might object to a strong animal preponderance in the rear; his mouth bold and finely curved, is rigid however in its compression, and the lips, at times almost woven together, are largely indicative of ferocity; they are pale in color, and dingily so, yet his flushed cheek and brow bear striking evidence of a something too frequent revel; his hair, thin and scattered, is of a dark brown complexion and sprinkled with gray; his neck is so very short that a single black handkerchief, wrapped loosely about it, removes all seeming distinction between itself and the adjoining shoulders—the latter being round and uprising, forming a socket, into which the former appears to fall as into a designated place.
— from Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia by William Gilmore Simms

About the time when Oxford was surrendered to the Parliament, he followed the Queen to Paris, where he became secretary to the Lord Jermyn, afterwards Earl of St. Albans, and was employed in such correspondence as the royal cause required, and particularly in ciphering and deciphering the letters that passed between the king and queen; an employment of the highest confidence and honour.
— from Lives of the English Poets : Waller, Milton, Cowley by Samuel Johnson

Already the Danes were thronging up, but at present in confusion and disorder, coming rather to see what was the matter than to fight, and hardly believing that the Saxons could have had the audacity to attack them.
— from The Dragon and the Raven; Or, The Days of King Alfred by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

" He stormed and raved; Mellicent looked like a martyr, wished to know how a teeny little light like that could possibly hurt anything, and seemed incapable of understanding that if one flash of sunlight could make a picture, it could also destroy it with equal swiftness.
— from The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX, No. 986, November 19, 1898 by Various

The Maratha Brahman, after having viewed the Master, described Him to Prakashánanda thus, "A sannyasi has come here from Jagannáth, whose glory and power I cannot adequately describe.
— from Chaitanya's Life And Teachings From his contemporary Begali biography the Chaitanya-charit-amrita by Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmi

Although our experience of their assured protection is clear and definite, our personal acquaintance with the larger vessels of the Navy is not intimate.
— from Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war by David W. (David William) Bone