This trade was carried on mostly by our Southern-Western men, our new-Americans, as we may see by the letter of the grandson of James Baird, written from Kentucky.
— from The Way to the West, and the Lives of Three Early Americans: Boone—Crockett—Carson by Emerson Hough

Experience, as practical people understand it, is not every sort of consciousness or memory, but only such as is addressed to the facts of nature and controlled by the influence of those facts; material contact or derivation is essential to it.
— from Soliloquies in England, and Later Soliloquies by George Santayana

358 The next day Cornelia, once more bent on seeing her father, reached the city in time to follow the troops up Yonge Street on their way to Gallows Hill.
— from Humours of '37, Grave, Gay and Grim: Rebellion Times in the Canadas by Kathleen Macfarlane Lizars

Though this is not an uncommon Shell, it is rarely seen so large as that now represented from the cabinet of Mrs. Bolton of Storrs.
— from Zoological Illustrations, Volume 2 or, Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals by William Swainson

“The young ladies are probably engaged in milking the cows, or making butter, or superintending the manufacture of cheese.
— from Voyages and Travels of Count Funnibos and Baron Stilkin by William Henry Giles Kingston

The three-year-old wethers and older oxen that used to be common in the fat stock markets are now rarely seen, excepting perhaps in the case of mountain breeds of sheep and Highland cattle.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

It was composed of misshapen blocks of stone, for at some far-distant period the whole interior, now a flat bare surface, must have fallen with a mighty crash, brought down by the weight of the stalactites that had formed upon it.
— from George Alfred Henty: The Story of an Active Life by George Manville Fenn

The only real novelty that I notice in the France of to-day is the cultivation of many branches of sport and athletic exercise.
— from My Days of Adventure The Fall of France, 1870-71 by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly

“I ask not Avery and his wife to have a care of my beloved ones,” said he, “for I well know they will.
— from Robin Tremayne A Story of the Marian Persecution by Emily Sarah Holt

"Rule 23.—If the cause of meeting be of such a nature that no apology or explanation can or will be received, the challenged takes his ground, and calls on the challenger to proceed as he chooses: in such cases firing at pleasure is the usual practice, but may be varied by agreement.
— from The Code of Honor Or, Rules for the Government of Principals and Seconds in Duelling by John Lyde Wilson