If, then, we would indeed restore mankind by truly Indian, botanic, magnetic, or natural means, let us first be as simple and well as Nature ourselves, dispel the clouds which hang over our own brows, and take up a little life into our pores.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

Settling on land, they came in contact with the American land agents, other company officials, government authorities, American banks and stores, and with American neighbors at the community meetings.
— from A Stake in the Land by Peter A. (Peter Alexander) Speek

On the corners of the principal streets and squares there are little octagonal structures called kiosks, gayly painted, where hot coffee, lottery tickets, and bonbons are sold, as well as newspapers and flowers.
— from Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America by Maturin Murray Ballou

There he painted the Catholic Queen Isabella; Niccolò Orsini, Count of Pitigliano; Giangiacomo Trivulzio; and many other kinsmen and friends of the Pope, and especially Cæsar Borgia and his brother and sisters, as well as numerous great men of the age."
— from Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day by Ferdinand Gregorovius

O reader, there behold and see As we are now, so thou must be.'
— from In the Name of the Bodleian, and Other Essays by Augustine Birrell

O Kiva O is rounded below and square above, with a north-south diameter of 11 feet 10 inches, and an east-west diameter of 10 feet 6 inches.
— from Antiquities of the Mesa Verde National Park: Cliff Palace by Jesse Walter Fewkes

A man has become a strange animal with a name as queer as that of the gnu; and the moon something monstrous like the moon-calf.
— from The New Jerusalem by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

It is not the least merit of the cat that it has banished from our sitting-rooms those frightful mimicries of humanity—the monkey tribe; and as to the little dogs Tray, Blanch, and Sweetheart, although we are not insensible to their many virtues and utilities, we care not to see them sleeping on our hearth-rugs, or reposing beside our work-tables.
— from The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852 by Various