“For shame, Lady Honoria!” said Cecilia, again changing colour, “I am sure this must be your own fancy,—invention,—” “No, I assure you; I heard it at several places; and every body said how charmingly your fortune would build up all these old fortifications; but some people said they knew Mr Harrel had sold you to Mr Marriot, and that if you married Mortimer, there would be a lawsuit that would take away half your estate; and others said you had promised your hand to Sir Robert Floyer, and repented when you heard of his mortgages, and he gave it out every where that he would fight any man that pretended to you; and then again some said that you were all the time privately married to Mr Arnott, but did not dare own it, because he was so afraid of fighting with Sir Robert.”
— from Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 2 by Fanny Burney

But the men immediately pounded each other on the back and called each other “Seth” and “Joe,” and, keeping behind banks lest they be seen by young uns, they shamefacedly paddled barefoot—two old men with bare feet and silvery shanks, chuckling and catching crabs, in a salt inlet among rolling hillocks covered with sedge-grass that lisped in the breeze.
— from The Innocents: A Story for Lovers by Sinclair Lewis

Provided that— (i) the person who, at the commencement of this Act, is the owner of such original plate shall be the first owner of such copyright; and (ii) nothing in this provision shall be construed as conferring copyright in any such contrivance if the making thereof would have infringed copyright in some other such contrivance, if this provision had been in force at the time of the making of the first-mentioned contrivance.
— from Copyright: Its History and Its Law by R. R. (Richard Rogers) Bowker

The railroad from Asheville southeast to Columbia and Charleston crosses it at Spartansburg in South Carolina.
— from America, Volume 6 (of 6) by Joel Cook

SIR, Your Sanative English Tea, as a corrector of a weak and bilious stomach, attended with loss of appetite, with which I was long afflicted, has proved so peculiarly efficacious, that I wish it was more generally known by such as are troubled with that too common and cruel complaint, I am, Sir , Your most humble servant, RICHARD COX.
— from A Treatise on Foreign Teas Abstracted From An Ingenious Work, Lately Published, Entitled An Essay On the Nerves by Hugh Smith

"Anyhow," Malone said doggedly, "I talked to Leibowitz, and he says he can give a car a complete check in about six hours, normally."
— from The Impossibles by Randall Garrett

"A mound was opened in this locality, some years ago, containing a central corpse in a sitting posture, and over thirty skeletons buried around it in a circle, also in a sitting posture but leaning against one another, tipped over towards the right facing inwards.
— from An Introduction to the mortuary customs of the North American Indians by H. C. (Harry Crécy) Yarrow