In the map of his route, published by Arrowsmith, Port Grey is laid down as a spacious, well-sheltered harbour, with a convenient point of land extending a couple of miles out to sea from its northern extremity, and having a useful reef of rocks projecting, most happily, to the same distance, affording altogether a secure shelter for shipping in seven fathoms' water.
— from The Bushman — Life in a New Country by Edward Wilson Landor

The Earl of Bristol, who had been so unjustly and ungraciously received, or rather, not received, on his return from his Spanish embassy, to enable Buckingham and Charles to maintain their charge against Spain, had remained an exile from Court and Parliament, but not without keeping a watchful eye on the progress of events.
— from Cassell's History of England, Vol. 2 (of 8) From the Wars of the Roses to the Great Rebellion by Anonymous

Perhaps it is an unconscious recollection of reading a criticism of my book, Sylva Sylvarum , in the periodical Initiation , in which I was called "a countryman of Swedenborg."
— from The Inferno by August Strindberg

He disposes all under reigns of Roman emperors and English kings, whether they did any thing or nothing at Leicester.
— from The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Horace Walpole

Not in edifices deemed sacred was the gospel promulgated, so long as the gospel remained pure, but in ‘hired houses’ and ‘upper rooms,’ or ‘river-sides, where prayer was wont to be made,’ in chambers on the ‘third loft,’ often in the streets, often in the market-place, in the fields and by solitary waysides, on shipboard and by the sea-shore, ‘in the midst of Mars Hill’ at Athens, and, when persecution began to darken, amid the deep gloom of the sepulchral caverns of Rome.
— from Leading Articles on Various Subjects by Hugh Miller

The Academy says:—“The whole work is a monument of many years’ devoted study; it is illustrated throughout by an unusual range of reading and culture in other fields of literature; and it is accompanied by a most copious and valuable index of subjects and names.” ISBISTER & CO. LTD., 15 & 16 TAVISTOCK ST., COVENT GARDEN, LONDON Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co. , London & Edinburgh .
— from Birds of the wave and woodland by Phil Robinson

The plants in the figure were in the woods beside an untraveled road, on Ralston's Run.
— from The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard

It was the mating of common four legged creatures and yet they did not seem to mind: sexuality was the mounting of another form for pure pleasure (conquest of pleasure and the pleasure of conquest) that would be exempt of suffering and thought, the forced intimate exchange with a female, the forced intrusion and annexation of a cave, a feminine domain by which in sexual contact, the male animal, having nothing and bereft of all, asserted a declaration of ownership against a weaker mortal, a fertile being of obdurate will from which there was an exciting possibility of fertilized union and untoward pregnancy; and even from outside in witnessing another species and the action performed by it, it was a ubiquitous reminder of real life denuded of brand name pretense and mesmerizing for this fact alone.
— from An Apostate: Nawin of Thais by Steven David Justin Sills

We may have failed in the discharge of our full duty as citizens of the great Republic, but it is consoling and encouraging to realize that free speech, a free press, free thought, free schools, the free and unmolested right of religious liberty and worship, and free and fair elections are dearer and more universally enjoyed to-day than ever before.
— from A Supplement to A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents by William McKinley