The terrible scenes consequent upon the siege and storming of San Sebastian, which occupy considerable portions of this and the preceding Canto, and form in their bare recital an illustration never surpassed of the horrors of War, are attested by so many authorities, that to enter into minute corroborative details would far exceed the limits which I have prescribed to myself.
— from Iberia Won; A poem descriptive of the Peninsular War With impressions from recent visits to the battle-grounds, and copious historical and illustrative notes by T. M. (Terence McMahon) Hughes

Other wells have been sunk in the Chesterfield area at Ironville, Heath, Renishaw, Brimington, Ridgeway and in North Staffordshire and Scotland, but so far the success met with is not promising, though it is quite possible that commercial oil may be encountered.
— from Petroleum by Albert Lidgett

And yet many, who surely can think but superficially upon the solemn facts of life, still object to this most strenuously, that even the new-born child should be regarded as in nature sinful and unclean.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Leviticus by Samuel H. (Samuel Henry) Kellogg

Supper being over, we lay down in our buffalo robes; and I need scarcely say that, having no longer the fear of being aroused by finding an Indian’s scalping-knife running round my head, I was quickly fast asleep, fully expecting to have a good night’s rest.
— from Adventures in the Far West by William Henry Giles Kingston

While we have been considering the great southern continent as a whole, our good ship, having crossed the equator, has been rapidly approaching its northern shore.
— from Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America by Maturin Murray Ballou

Respect must go with love, of course, but respect alone is not sufficient to keep two people together “until death.”
— from My Queen: A Weekly Journal for Young Women. Issue 1. September 29, 1900. From Farm to Fortune; or Only a Farmer's Daughter by Lurana Sheldon

The burnt quarter has since been rebuilt, and I noticed several Christians occupying shops in various parts of it.
— from The Lands of the Saracen Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain by Bayard Taylor

On beginning his independent career he decided to devote his life to the occupation to which he had been reared and is now successfully operating five hundred acres belonging to his father.
— from Lyman's History of old Walla Walla County, Vol. 2 Embracing Walla Walla, Columbia, Garfield and Asotin counties by William Denison Lyman

Those suffering from it must be reckoned as insane; not sick merely, but actually mad with self-love.
— from The Far Horizon by Lucas Malet