I have been in Montreal and Kingston, and Queenston, and a great many places in Canada, and I have been in York State, too—in Buffalo, and Rochester, and Albany, and can tell you the names of the villages on the Erie canal and the Champlain canal."
— from Twelve Years a Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana by Solomon Northup

It has also a great number of islands, and is thirty 420 miles across, and 150 in circumference, according to Claudius Cæsar.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

Our captain, who had never before hinted that he entertained any apprehensions on the subject, now confided to us his conviction that he should never quit the city alive: “This cursed cholera!
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

It is the uncle who gives these cloths, because it was he who received the two cloths at the conjee ceremony.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

Thus on the northern coast, In the echo of teamsters' calls and the clinking chains, and the music of choppers' axes, The falling trunk and limbs, the crash, the muffled shriek, the groan, Such words combined from the redwood-tree, as of voices ecstatic, ancient and rustling, The century-lasting, unseen dryads, singing, withdrawing, All their recesses of forests and mountains leaving, From the Cascade range to the Wahsatch, or Idaho far, or Utah, To the deities of the modern henceforth yielding, The chorus and indications, the vistas of coming humanity, the settlements, features all, In the Mendocino woods I caught.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

He had made his church a true community center.
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

Chetteus, Jebuseus, Amorreus, Gergesus, Eudeus, Sineus, Samareus, we have nothing in the sacred books but their names, for the Hebrews overthrew their cities; and their calamities came upon them on the occasion following.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

The Life Force respects marriage only because marriage is a contrivance of its own to secure the greatest number of children and the closest care of them.
— from Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw

On enquiry, it turned out that she was in an interesting condition, and therefore could claim not only her own, but also a share for the expected child.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

They'd sent hundreds and hundreds of he-bicycles to China and the Chinamen couldn't ride 'em on account of their skirts!—It was the smell of an apple in a man's pocket that made Tommy Bent follow the man to the meeting.—And he answered to every name except 'Tommy Bent' so they knew it was he!
— from Fairy Prince and Other Stories by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

“I’m quite right, father,” panted Fred; and he kept up till they reached the men who surrounded the prisoners, and who burst into a cheer as the colonel came up.
— from Crown and Sceptre: A West Country Story by George Manville Fenn

We visited old Cairo and the Coptic churches, six of which are situated in the precincts of the ancient castle of Babylon.
— from Travels in the Far East by Ellen Mary Hayes Peck

a good environment in which to rear a family; we may demand a school system that shall give the country child as good a chance as the city child has.
— from Chapters in Rural Progress by Kenyon L. (Kenyon Leech) Butterfield

As with their bands playing, whilst they themselves sang the "Wacht am Rhein" in chorus, they marched up the Champs Elysées on their way back to Versailles, those of their comrades who were still billeted in the houses came to the balconies with as many lighted candles as they could carry.
— from My Days of Adventure The Fall of France, 1870-71 by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly

Through constant change, and through constant change alone, he will find his true unity.
— from Intentions by Oscar Wilde

Then the Wanderer turned and called to the Captains, and the Captains called to the soldiers and set them in array, and following the blood-red Star they rolled down upon the gathered foe as the tide rolls upon the rocks when the breath of the gale is strong; and as the waters leap and gather till the rocks are lost in the surge, so the host of Pharaoh leapt upon the foe and swallowed them up.
— from The World's Desire by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

Repeated analyses have shown how greatly both the botanical constitution and the chemical composition of the mixed herbage vary according to the description of manure applied.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

The great American public, through its representative, the press, clamored to know why the wheels of justice had clogged, and the campaign committee of the reform party called in a body upon the District Attorney, warning him that an election was approaching and inquiring the cause of the "illegal proceeding which had been brought to their attention."
— from McAllister and His Double by Arthur Cheney Train