You are not good for much, but you can spin out yards of what you and your friends, I suppose, call literature; and some people seem to enjoy reading it.
— from Diary of a Pilgrimage by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

"There will be a crew living aboard, so please see that the galley is stocked with a full supply of both fresh and synthetic foods.
— from On the Trail of the Space Pirates by Carey Rockwell

The Calabrian troop halted within a hundred feet of the French, and only the lieutenant, clad like a simple peasant, stepped forward out of the ranks and advanced towards the major.
— from My Memoirs, Vol. III, 1826 to 1830 by Alexandre Dumas

"With the fire of Bongo Tern, the which you may call The Crooked Land," and she pointed significantly downward.
— from Red Money by Fergus Hume

[Footnote: Burgenroth, Col. Letters and State Papers, Spain, I., 34, etc.]
— from The American Nation: A History — Volume 1: European Background of American History, 1300-1600 by Edward Potts Cheyney

Before him lay a wide stretch of the river, so wide, and apparently currentless, that it seemed like a calm lake, and so perfectly still that every object on and around it was faithfully mirrored on its depths—even the fleecy clouds that floated in the calm sky were repeated far down in the azure vault below.
— from Hunting the Lions by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne