By the same act pensioners who are inmates of the Home may assign their pension and have the same or any portion thereof paid to a wife, child, or parent if living; otherwise the pension is paid to the treasurer of the Home and held by him in trust for the pensioner, who may, while an inmate, draw upon it for necessary purposes, and receive whatever balance may remain upon his discharge.
— from General Scott by Marcus Joseph Wright

[4] he chatted on paper, in letters of that fulness and length which the penny post and the telegraph have well-nigh driven out of existence; and happily for us, too, Abbott kept those letters, and Dr. Bence Jones has published them.
— from Michael Faraday Third Edition, with Portrait by J. H. (John Hall) Gladstone

We cruised to the Eastward, near the coast of Portuigale: In longitude of twenty-seven we saw a lofty sail.
— from A Study of Hawthorne by George Parsons Lathrop