The names of places are singularly inviting; the contour of coasts and rivers is enthralling to the eye; and to hit, in a map, upon some place you have heard of before, makes history a new possession.
— from An Inland Voyage by Robert Louis Stevenson

It is only when these tropical species shall have been already reared in Europe that the emergence of the moths will be regular; then they will be single-brooded in Northern or Central Europe, and some will very likely become double-brooded in Southern Europe.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882 by Various

‘On the face of the vertical cliff a recess is excavated to the extent of about a hundred feet in width.
— from The Subterranean World by G. (Georg) Hartwig

In every case, the actual result is equivalent to the excess of the downward over the upward pull.
— from The Psychology of Singing A Rational Method of Voice Culture Based on a Scientific Analysis of All Systems, Ancient and Modern by David C. (David Clark) Taylor

By the Constitution, if a district should be ceded to it for the seat of government, Congress was to have a right, in express terms, to exercise exclusive legislation, in all cases whatsoever.
— from The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style by Edwin Percy Whipple