The famous historian Pausanias states upon current authority that Esculapius raised several persons from the dead, and names Hippolytus among the number, and then points to a stone monument erected as a proof of the occurrence—thus furnishing, according to Christian logic, the most conclusive proof of one of the most astounding miracles ever wrought.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

In all her wanderings through the long corridors and the empty rooms, she had seen nothing alive; but in this room she saw something.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

I have also shown, in a former work, that it is a property of winds to travel in distinct lines through a tranquil atmosphere, and often in streams of a very limited breadth; that opposing streams will also move, in absolute contact; and that even rapid streams of wind will cross each other’s courses without difficulty.
— from The Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature and the Arts, July-December, 1827 by Various

These be the signs of frenzy, woodness and continual waking, moving and casting about the eyes, raging, stretching, and casting out of hands, moving and wagging of the head, grinding and gnashing together of the teeth; always they will arise out of their bed, now they sing, now they weep, and they bite gladly and rend their keeper and their leech: seldom be they still, but cry much.
— from Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus by Bartholomaeus, Anglicus, active 13th century

Brandl’s Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the English Romantic School , 258, 674 n., 740 n. Bratha, 394, 535 .
— from Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The land is brought to a high state of cultivation, and the entire region seems almost like an extensive park.
— from Peculiarities of American Cities by Willard W. Glazier

“A lovely and fruitful city, adapted to every recreation,” says a scholiast on Homer, and Diodorus 233 speaks of Sicyon as a place “for peaceful enjoyment.” XX. Phliasia.
— from Studies in Greek Scenery, Legend and History Selected from His Commentary on Pausanias' 'Description of Greece,' by James George Frazer

In January, 1903, the Interborough Rapid Transit Company acquired the elevated railway system by lease for 999 years from the Manhattan Railway Company, thus assuring harmonious operation of the elevated roads and the subway system, including the Brooklyn extension.
— from The New York Subway, Its Construction and Equipment by Interborough Rapid Transit Company