the deerskins which we have had cased for the purpose of containing our dryed meat are not themselves sufficiently dryed for that purpose, we directed them to be dryed by the fire also.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Certain containers of dry material are now largely made of pasteboard with tin tops, lids and bottoms.
— from Making Tin Can Toys by Edward Thatcher

Galvanic batteries—as a series of cells joined together in a certain manner are termed—have been constructed, in which there is no contact of dissimilar metals; and no electric current can be obtained from an apparatus in which no chemical action takes place.
— from Discoveries and Inventions of the Nineteenth Century by Robert Routledge

Since it is open to the States to accept compulsory jurisdiction by the Court in respect of certain of the classes of dispute mentioned and not to accept it in respect of the rest, it is also open to them only to accept it in respect of a portion of one of those classes; rights need not be exercised in their full extent.
— from The Geneva Protocol by David Hunter Miller

Some timid persons may say that it would be better, in this address, merely to speak of the kind acts and high character of Dr. McLoughlin and not of the wrongful and unjust ways in which he was treated by some of the early immigrants, by some of the Methodist missionaries, by Thurston, by Bryant, and others.
— from Dr. John McLoughlin, the Father of Oregon by Frederick V. Holman

“The Council of Defence met at noon—just at the time you went on duty.
— from Her Royal Highness: A Romance of the Chancelleries of Europe by William Le Queux

The underlying rock seen in ascending to the plateau is a tolerably compact shale; but the hard crust forming the superficial stratum appears to consist of different materials, and not to be made up from the disintegrated materials of the shale.
— from Notes of a naturalist in South America by John Ball