A YOUNG KNIGHT-ERRANT Or Cruising in the West Indies STRANGE SIGHTS ABROAD Or A Voyage in European Waters —————— SECOND SERIES AMERICAN BOYS AFLOAT
— from Four Young Explorers; Or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics by Oliver Optic

A YOUNG KNIGHT ERRANT or Cruising in the West Indies STRANGE SIGHTS ABROAD or A Voyage in European Waters —————— SECOND SERIES THE AMERICAN BOYS AFLOAT or Cruising in the Orient THE YOUNG NAVIGATORS or The Foreign Cruise of the Maud UP AND DOWN THE NILE or Young Adventurers in Africa ASIATIC BREEZES or Students on the Wing (in press) —————— THIRD SERIES ACROSS INDIA or Live Boys in the Far East HALF ROUND THE WORLD or Among the Uncivilized FOUR YOUNG EXPLORERS or Sight-Seeing in the Tropics PACIFIC SHORES or Adventures in Eastern Seas —————— "The bare announcement of a new series of books by Oliver Optic will delight boys all over the country.
— from Four Young Explorers; Or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics by Oliver Optic

—I will now describe a very interesting experiment which shows how an identical agent may, on account of difference in the tonic condition of the tissue, give rise to diametrically opposite effects.
— from Life Movements in Plants, Volume I by Jagadis Chandra Bose

A Viper, if endowed with similar powers, would throw itself nearly a hundred feet from the ground.”
— from The Structure and Life-history of the Cockroach (Periplaneta orientalis) An Introduction to the Study of Insects by L. C. (Louis Compton) Miall

There will scarcely be a village in England without some American dust in it, I believe, by the time we are all at rest."
— from A Week at Waterloo in 1815 Lady De Lancey's Narrative: Being an Account of How She Nursed Her Husband, Colonel Sir William Howe De Lancey, Quartermaster-General of the Army, Mortally Wounded in the Great Battle by De Lancey, Magdalene, Lady

What the result of these operations would have been can now not be known, for the general aspect of affairs was, soon after these transactions, totally changed by the occurrence of a new and very important event which suddenly intervened, and which turned the attention of all parties, both Egyptians and Romans, to the eastern quarter of the kingdom.
— from History of Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt by Jacob Abbott

A YOUNG KNIGHT-ERRANT Or Cruising in the West Indies STRANGE SIGHTS ABROAD Or A Voyage in European Waters SECOND SERIES AMERICAN BOYS AFLOAT
— from Asiatic Breezes; Or, Students on The Wing by Oliver Optic

There are very many marine objects that are exceedingly pretty and also very instructive, even when studied apart from the life with which they were associated in the sea.
— from The Sea Shore by William S. Furneaux