I have seen them at Blue Licks, and they abound near the Kentucky river.
— from The Art of Making Whiskey So As to Obtain a Better, Purer, Cheaper and Greater Quantity of Spirit, From a Given Quantity of Grain. Also, the Art of Converting It into Gin, after the Process of the Holland Distillers by Anthony Boucherie

This river rises and falls but little, and there are no towns situated upon its margin.
— from Rambles by Land and Water; or, Notes of Travel in Cuba and Mexico by Benjamin Moore Norman

The duke and his master of ceremonies had spent weeks in preparing the program for the wedding festivities, although these did not admit of any great variety, being limited as they are now to banquets, balls, and theatrical productions.
— from Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day by Ferdinand Gregorovius

A few masculine experts might be tolerated in special institutions, so that cases of peculiar danger and difficulty might not be left, as they are now, to the necessarily one-sided treatment of a single sex; but, in general, if ever a created being was conspicuously and intolerably out of his natural sphere, it is in my opinion, the male doctor in the apartment of the lying-in woman; and I think our sex is really guilty, in the first place, that it ever allowed man to appear there; and, in the second, that it does not insist upon educating women of character and intelligence and social position for that post.
— from Medical Women: Two Essays by Sophia Jex-Blake