You know Selby has got his claim allowed, and they say he has had a run of luck lately at Morrissey’s.”
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

Had she been different when I did see her, I should have made no complaint, but from the very first she was altered: my first reception was so unlike what I had hoped, that I had almost resolved on leaving London again directly.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Why may not Congress, with equal show of authority, enact a code of laws for the enforcement and vindication of all rights of life, liberty and property?
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Miscellany by Robert Green Ingersoll

The former recognises in the White Mountain region a series of gneisses and other altered rocks of Lower Laurentian age, and, resting unconformably on these, others corresponding to the Upper Laurentian; while above the latter are other pre-silurian formations corresponding to the Huronian and probably to the Montalban series of Hunt.
— from Life's Dawn on Earth Being the history of the oldest known fossil remains, and their relations to geological time and to the development of the animal kingdom by Dawson, John William, Sir

In the Rhine lands Luther taught, and Robinson of Leyden lived and prayed; and from those lands to-day comes the great emigration that is peopling the golden empire of America in the West.
— from Zigzag Journeys in Northern Lands; The Rhine to the Arctic; A Summer Trip of the Zigzag Club Through Holland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden by Hezekiah Butterworth

In her brilliant climate it seems to matter not at all how many of the windows are blocked up or destroyed: all that results is a deeper shadow thrown across an aisle, or a ray of light looking all the brighter by contrast; and, though it is often a hard matter to see to draw inside a church on the brightest day, it is never too dark for comfort, and one comes in from the scorching sun outside and sits down in the darkest spot of the dark church with the utmost satisfaction.
— from Some Account of Gothic Architecture in Spain by George Edmund Street

There were gas-lamps, and they sent a ripple of light like a sword-thrust along the gutter beside the banquette, where a pariah dog nosed a dead rat and was silhouetted.
— from The Path of a Star by Sara Jeannette Duncan

He seems to have had as intense a relish of London life as Johnson and Boswell exhibited in the next age.
— from Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and Smollett With Memoirs, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes by Thomas Gray

The similarity in other customs, physiognomy, and roots of languages, lend additional proofs to substantiate this.
— from In Darkest Africa, Vol. 1; or, The Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria by Henry M. (Henry Morton) Stanley

Then, as the situation dawned on him, he gave vent to a roar of laughter like a bull.
— from Danny Again Further Adventures of "Danny the Detective" by Vera C. (Vera Charlesworth) Barclay

Ratu Lala, on the contrary, being half-civilized, used an English rod and reel or line like a white man.
— from Wanderings among South Sea Savages and in Borneo and the Philippines by H. Wilfrid Walker