[Pg xii] I can in this case, as in others, add something new to what is already known, and this to a larger extent as the work goes on.
— from A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) by Leopold von Ranke

It was a flat country, but in front, a little further on, there was a ragged man-made dune, thirty or forty feet high and ten times as long, enclosing a deep crater in which were lying hundreds of mangled bodies, some of them with their limbs sticking through the surface, killed and buried or half buried by the same appalling explosion in one dreadful moment of eternity.
— from Verdun to the Vosges: Impressions of the War on the Fortress Frontier of France by Gerald Campbell

Many other species from China, Japan, California, etc., are occasionally cultivated, but few are large enough to be called trees, and those that are large enough are not of sufficient importance to need specific notice.
— from Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination by A. C. (Austin Craig) Apgar

‘There has been a battle,’ says Swetman, on coming indoors after these tidings, and looking earnestly at the stranger.
— from A Changed Man, and Other Tales by Thomas Hardy

In respect however to these and other Grecian heroes, tales were told different from those in the Odyssey, assigning to them a long expatriation and a distant home.
— from History of Greece, Volume 01 (of 12) by George Grote

I accepted them to a limited extent, and on particular terms.
— from The Mysteries of London, v. 4/4 by George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds

The Commissioners reported "that they had admitted these to a limited extent and had made them presents in provisions and clothing and were also to pay them a small amount in money, it being fully and distinctly understood by the Indians that these presents and clothing were accepted by them as an equivalent for all past claims whatever."
— from The Treaties of Canada with the Indians of Manitoba and the North-West Territories Including the Negotiations on Which They Were Based, and Other Information Relating Thereto by Alexander Morris

I now became tired of living an inactive life out of business, and therefore took a large estate at Rowfont, near East Grinstead, in Sussex, consisting of a good mansion, a thousand acres of land, and the manorial rights of the whole parish of Worth, extending over upwards of twenty thousand acres; upon which I was to enter at Lady-day, 1811.
— from Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 2 by Henry Hunt