The sea at Teignmouth and coast of Devonshire, England, rose and fell several times two feet in ten minutes .
— from The Every Day Book of History and Chronology Embracing the Anniversaries of Memorable Persons and Events in Every Period and State of the World, from the Creation to the Present Time by Joel Munsell

They had there drawn up a list, decided to meet again to deliberate in case of double electoral returns, and had named a committee charged to convoke all the companies regularly.
— from History of the Commune of 1871 by Lissagaray

Every consideration of discipline, economy, reformation, and health demands this.
— from Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, March 1899 Volume LIV, No. 5, March 1899 by Various

A month in Washington, and a surgeon's certificate secured the necessary "leave" when, accompanied by Lieutenant C.E. Storrs of troop "B," who had been severely wounded in one of the engagements in Virginia, after Falling Waters, I started by the Pennsylvania line, for the old home in Michigan, stopping a couple of days, en route, at Altoona, to breathe the fresh mountain air.
— from Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman With Custer's Michigan Cavalry Brigade in the Civil War by James Harvey Kidd

The interpretation, of course, as explained below, is that these suns, each one of different mass and consequently of different electrical resistance, are arranged in parallel circuit along a single line of electric current; a pair of different-sized arc or incandescent lamps, similarly arranged, would exhibit precisely the same phenomena.
— from The Source and Mode of Solar Energy Throughout the Universe by Isaac W. (Isaac Winter) Heysinger

The exercises, consisting of declamations, essays, recitations, and songs, were listened to with great interest and apparent delight.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 32, No. 07, July 1878 by Various

November, 1888, E.A. Richardson, employed at the Consett iron works, in the county of Durnham, England, received a shock from an arc-light plant, from the effects of which he died two hours later.
— from The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, No. 733, January 11, 1890 by Various