'Mama had wery soft curls, papa called 'em golden; mama had wery blue eyes, papa called 'em wiolet, and she had wery pink cheeks, and papa called 'em sea shells, and he called her wery little mouth, a rose bud and her wery soft hands, welvet, and what do you think he named her wery, wery, cunning little feets?—mices.—He read all about 'em in a book one evening, how they stoled in and out like little mices,—now wasn't that wery, wery nice?'
— from Little Wolf: A Tale of the Western Frontier by Mary Ann Mann Cornelius

One of his large steamers, with cargo and passengers, calls every Saturday at Gairloch, Poolewe, and Aultbea.
— from Gairloch in North-West Ross-Shire Its Records, Traditions, Inhabitants, and Natural History, with a Guide to Gairloch and Loch Maree, and a Map and Illustrations by John H. (John Henry) Dixon

I suppose I was expected to give that kid something for Christmas!); a pastoral chromo, entitled "Shearing the Lambs," sent me by a firm of brokers; a picture of a child in a nightie saying its prayers, with the compliments of the Schweinler Beef Packing Co.; a hand-tinted but feebly glued print of Paul and Virginia, inscribed, "Jones and Bergfeldt, Plumbers."
— from Bizarre by Lawton Mackall

He turned from the precipice accordingly, and hastening to the left for more than a quarter of a mile, he proceeded towards a riva , or cleft in the rock, containing a path, called Erick’s Steps, neither safe, indeed, nor easy, but the only one by which the inhabitants of Jarlshof were wont, for any purpose, to seek access to the foot of the precipice.
— from The Pirate Andrew Lang Edition by Walter Scott

Nevertheless the general rule still holds good that for the preparation of the finest qualities of chocolate only the better sorts of bean (as Caracas, Ariba, Puerto Cabello etc.) should be employed.
— from The Manufacture of Chocolate and other Cacao Preparations by Paul Zipperer

It reflects them or turns them back on their course; it refracts them as they pass through the gases of which the atmosphere consists, or through the water-vapor and ice-crystals suspended in it, thus sifting [206] out and dispersing the rays of different colors and wave-lengths and producing beautiful color effects; it diffracts them or bends them aside as they pass between the fine dust particles and small drops of water in the air, again sifting out the rays of different colors and producing color effects similar to those produced by refraction; it also scatters and disperses, through the action of the molecules of oxygen and nitrogen in the upper strata, the blue and violet rays of shorter wave-length and thus produces the blue color and brightness of the sky; it produces beautifully colored auroral streamers and curtains and rays of light through the electrical discharges resulting when the rarefied gases in the upper air are bombarded by electrified particles shot forth from the sun.
— from Astronomy for Young Folks by Isabel Martin Lewis