The committee cannot hesitate a moment in deciding on the importance and extensive utility of connecting the waters of the Chesapeake and Delaware by a navigable canal.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 3 (of 16) by United States. Congress

There is no doubt trouble with the cray fish, or Adam Mayle has broken the head of the collector of the Customs House----" "Adam Mayle is dead.
— from The Watchers: A Novel by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason

The huntsmen followed as fast as the trees and bushes allowed them, until, after a mile or two, they all came to a [Pg 18] sudden stand, where the object of the chase had already met its death at the hands of Osric.
— from Brian Fitz-Count: A Story of Wallingford Castle and Dorchester Abbey by A. D. (Augustine David) Crake

With a blast of the trumpet I drove the entire army like an enormous javelin right through the heart of the foe, tearing a yawning chasm, half a mile in diameter, in his ranks!
— from The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar by William Richard Bradshaw

Mr. W. St. Chad Boscawen, in his learned lecture on "A Chaldean Heliopolis," at Manchester, in December, 1881, after referring to the manner in which Berosus "had resort to an ingenious literary fiction to preserve the continuity of the narrative in his history of Chaldea, which he claimed to have based on documentary evidence, extending back over fifteen myriads of years," says—"The daily recurring war of day and night, which had belonged to the nomadic age, now became national wars and combats of Samson, Shamgar, and Gideon, the solar heroes, against the dark forces of the Philistine and Midianite.
— from On Some Ancient Battle-Fields in Lancashire And Their Historical, Legendary, and Aesthetic Associations. by Charles Hardwick

“For my part,” said Kate, “I don't care how a man is dressed; if I like him, I like him should he appear in a blanket and feathers.”
— from The Man from Glengarry: A Tale of the Ottawa by Ralph Connor

Hopalong took the lead in getting his horse ready for service and then rode around in a circle half a mile in diameter, but returned empty handed.
— from Hopalong Cassidy's Rustler Round-Up; Or, Bar-20 by Clarence Edward Mulford

In the summer of 1784 a number of gentlemen were chatting, after dinner, in a country house at Matlock in Derbyshire.
— from Triumphs of Invention and Discovery in Art and Science by J. Hamilton (James Hamilton) Fyfe

"The Club" has always maintained its distinction, and a recent article in the Edinburgh Review records that fifteen Prime Ministers have been members of it, as well as men like Scott, Tennyson, Hallam, Macaulay and Grote.
— from Dr. Johnson and His Circle by John Cann Bailey