Cut a round piece exactly the size of the top, for a cover, and bake separately.
— from The Dinner Year-Book by Marion Harland

He conducts a religious paper, entitled "The Western Cornucopia," much read by those of his persuasion, and throughout the West of England.
— from John Herring: A West of England Romance. Volume 1 (of 3) by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

There was nothing to cheer his cold and rocky prison except the light within his soul, and that human tenderness which, when all others had deserted him, was still lavished upon him by Onesimus and Luke.
— from Darkness and Dawn; Or, Scenes in the Days of Nero. An Historic Tale by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar

Of the hundreds who attempt the work, such a small per cent are really proficient enough to undertake court reporting."
— from In League with Israel: A Tale of the Chattanooga Conference by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston

And I think: Can any reasonable person expect that those men with that noisy contrivance in the enclosed hut away back shall plant a mass of metal into that far-off tiny red patch of masonry lost in the vast landscape?
— from Over There: War Scenes on the Western Front by Arnold Bennett

Those who, like myself, have lived long within the tropics, will find no exaggeration in these calculations; for I suppose for the portion the most easily cultivated a relative population equal to that in the intendencias of Puebla and Mexico,* full of barren mountains, and extending towards the coast of the Pacific over regions almost desert.
— from Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 by Alexander von Humboldt