Some time before, while advancing through eastern Georgia, they had heard also of a rich and plentiful province called Coça, toward the northwest, and by the people of Cofitachiqui they were now told that Chiaha, the nearest town of Coça province, was twelve days inland.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

I was born on the 27th of April, 1822, at Point Pleasant, Clermont County, Ohio.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

If there are passages, people can come up them; they can come up when one is asleep.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

Pliny mentions a private person, C. Caecilius Claudius Isidorus, who ordered the sum of about 10,000 l. sterling to be expended in his funeral: and in another place he says, "Intelligent persons asserted that Arabia did not produce such a quantity of spices in a year as Nero burned at the obsequies of his Poppaea."—xxxiii. 10, and xii.
— from The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus by Cornelius Tacitus

KNOWALL There was once upon a time a poor peasant called Crabb, who drove with two oxen a load of wood to the town, and sold it to a doctor for two talers.
— from Grimms' Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm

In a few years he removed from Ravenna, and set up the same business at Point Pleasant, Clermont County, Ohio.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

In country churches in Oxfordshire there were silver chalices and patens, pyxes, censers, candlesticks, chrismatories, crosses, sanctus bells, and other articles of plate.
— from English Villages by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

It was for want of people conversing one with another, in this time of calamity, that it was impossible any particular person could come at the knowledge of all the extraordinary cases that occurred in different families; and particularly I believe it was never known to this day how many people in their deliriums drowned themselves in the Thames, and in the river which runs from the marshes by Hackney, which we generally called Ware River, or Hackney River.
— from A Journal of the Plague Year Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London by Daniel Defoe

The sum total of lightning that the eye of a Picard peasant can contain, traversed Fauchelevent’s pupils.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Thence, bursting like a mighty flame, A pestilential poison came, Consuming, as it onward ran, The home of God, and fiend, and man.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Dedication BIRTHPLACE AT POINT PLEASANT , CLERMONT COUNTY; OHIO.
— from Project Gutenberg Edition of The Memoirs of Four Civil War Generals by John Alexander Logan

Her shining hair was drawn modishly to the top of her head and confined with a pink porcelain comb, carved into semblance of wild roses.
— from Patience Sparhawk and Her Times: A Novel by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

But any private preferences cannot control my public actions.
— from Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt

The deity is represented by a pie piece (copper coin), placed in or over a new earthen [ 179 ] pot smeared with rice and turmeric powder.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 2 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

"John Doe, carpenter, 187 Broad St., 5G 2F. " This rating indicates that five different merchants have found by experience that John Doe is a prompt paying credit customer, and two other merchants have found him somewhat slow, but regard him reliable and trustworthy.
— from Cyclopedia of Commerce, Accountancy, Business Administration, v. 01 (of 10) by American School of Correspondence

A young man who appeared to be a poorly paid clerk came to the Red Cross office in New York at the noon hour last Friday and pulled from his pocket a five dollar and a one dollar bill.
— from The Survey, Volume XXX, Number 1, April 5, 1913 by Various

For example: if a plate exposed to the vapor of iodine be perfectly coated in sixteen seconds, and then exposed to an accelerator, (not having iodine in its combination) receives its coating in four seconds, it will be found that a proper proportionate coating cannot be preserved by adopting, a proportion of time, but on the contrary, the time will diminish; for exposure over the accelerator, as in the above example, if it be desired to coat the plate with twice as much iodine as in the above example, the time would be, over iodine thirty-two seconds, and over the accelerator (to possess a proper proportion) from six to seven seconds.
— from American Hand Book of the Daguerreotype by S. D. (Samuel Dwight) Humphrey

And in the ‘Statistical Account of Scotland’ ( xiii. 557) the writer, speaking of the parish of Locharron, county of Ross, alludes to the same idea: ‘There is one opinion which many of them entertain, and which, indeed, is not peculiar to this parish alone, that a Popish priest can cast out devils and cure madness, and that the Presbyterian clergy have no such power.
— from The Ghost World by T. F. (Thomas Firminger) Thiselton-Dyer