That there is little actual combustion is certain; that is, except for the forced combination of nitrogen, argon, xenon, and krypton with oxygen.
— from The Vortex Blaster by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith

"And what came down the chimney one night," added X-Ray Tyson; "not to mention what tried to come down the next day.
— from Phil Bradley's Mountain Boys The Birch Bark Lodge by Silas K. Boone

But he rejects the impossible courses and distances of Vespucci, substituting an imaginary voyage of his own, by which he takes our contractor along the coast of North America, [xxvii] round the peninsula of Florida, and up to Cape Hatteras, where, he confesses, "the finest harbour in the world" is not to be found.
— from The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci, and Other Documents Illustrative of His Career by Amerigo Vespucci