But the Romans, two hundred years after Cæsar’s time, were still marching about, the same drilled and clanking cohorts they had always been, easily ridden round and shot to pieces.
— from The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

end poetry block end rend rend=';' And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXVII, No. 5, November 1850 by Various

end poetry block end rend rend=';' And swift expires a driveller and show.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXVII, No. 5, November 1850 by Various

end poetry block end rend rend=';' A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXVII, No. 5, November 1850 by Various

end poetry block end rend rend=';' This case, in the opinion of the members of the club, Was much the most deserving, and the nearest to the hub; And each allowed he’d never heard the like in all his life, So, by general acclamation, they bestowed the prize on Fife:— end poetry block end rend rend=';' A silver-plated snuff-box, with a compass in the lid, With the words, “ If sold at auction always do as you are bid ,” Which we sent him in a hurry ere it might be understood That this, too, was not an instance of the pure unmingled good.
— from Songs of the Sea and Lays of the Land by Charles Godfrey Leland

end poetry block end rend rend=';' A singular emotion enveloped Mr. Dale; One would say he seemed confuseled, for his countenance was pale: At first there came an angry look, and when that look did get, He larft a wild and hollow larf, and said, “I take the debt.
— from Songs of the Sea and Lays of the Land by Charles Godfrey Leland

end poetry block end rend rend=';' All, save this little nook of land, Circled with trees, on which I stand: All, save that line of hills which lie Suspended in the mimic sky,— Seems a blue void, above, below, Through which the white clouds come and go; And from the green world’s farthest steep I gaze into the airy deep.
— from Forest, Rock, and Stream A series of twenty steel line-engravings by Nathaniel Parker Willis