There are Savings Banks in almost all our cities, where you can lay up small earnings, and receive interest for them, so as to increase their value every year; and there is less risk in putting money into these banks, than in any other way, because their business is arranged for the purpose of making them safe.
— from Letters to Persons Who Are Engaged in Domestic Service by Catharine Esther Beecher

A nostrum containing, let us say, extractives of some little-used or worthless drugs is put on the market and heavily advertised.
— from The Propaganda for Reform in Proprietary Medicines, Vol. 1 of 2 by Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry (American Medical Association)

Catholics look upon such extravagances with horror.
— from Protestantism and Catholicity compared in their effects on the civilization of Europe by Jaime Luciano Balmes

We stand, to-day, as though in the presence of the nation's dead, and here, on the tomb of our chieftain, let us swear eternal enmity to treason and to traitors.
— from The Great North-Western Conspiracy in All Its Startling Details by I. Windslow Ayer

The turret lathe, equally ingenious, has a turret or capstan, which carries let us say eight different tools, one on each of its eight faces.
— from Inventors at Work, with Chapters on Discovery by George Iles