Reproduction Company , containing intricate equipment and skilled personnel capable of producing leaflets and newspapers of varying sizes and multiple color.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

Bear Creek—so called, perhaps, because it was always so particularly bare of bears—is hidden out of sight now, under islands and continents of piled lumber, and nobody but an expert can find it.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

Despite all this preliminary weight, a large collection of parcels, letters and newspapers were taken from America to England in record time.
— from Flying the Atlantic in Sixteen Hours With a Discussion of Aircraft in Commerce and Transportation by Brown, Arthur Whitten, Sir

I called on Professor Luzzatti a number of times thereafter, which in his charming way he had begged me to do because he was confined to the house with a cold and therefore could not call on me.
— from Under Four Administrations, from Cleveland to Taft Recollections of Oscar S. Straus ... by Oscar S. (Oscar Solomon) Straus

Coleridge, in the twenty-second chapter of the Biographia Literaria , points out that the fable and characters of Paradise Lost are not derived from Scripture, as in the Messiah of Klopstock, but merely suggested by it—the illusion on which all poetry is founded being thus never contradicted.
— from Obiter Dicta: Second Series by Augustine Birrell

The great majority of consumers of popular literature are not, and indeed will hardly ever be, literary men; and that is precisely why a publisher who is not, in the main, literary,—who looks on authors' MSS.
— from Sir Walter Scott (English Men of Letters Series) by Richard Holt Hutton

However, the spirit of the work is throughout candid, tolerant, and anxiously conciliating; compliments and [Pg 71] praises are liberally distributed, on all hands, to great and small; and, as Mr. Morris Birkbeck observes of the society in the backwoods of America, “the courtesies of polite life are never lost sight of for a moment.”
— from Life of Robert Burns by Thomas Carlyle

The little telegraph-house was all in order, and made as secure as possible, and under it the Dipsey people made a “cache” of provisions, leaving a note in several languages to show what they had done.
— from The Great Stone of Sardis by Frank Richard Stockton

They are the sentinels and conservators of public liberty, and, next to the clergy, improve or impair the morality of the masses.
— from School History of North Carolina : from 1584 to the present time by John W. (John Wheeler) Moore

"I daresay not," assented the Chief of Police, looking at Nino.
— from Whosoever Shall Offend by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

This declaration was greeted by shouts, sundry clattering of pewter lids and noisy rappings of earthenware on the tables.
— from The Puppet Crown by Harold MacGrath

[10] catalogues of public libraries are no more than this “index catalogue” under the newer name.
— from Manual of Library Cataloguing by John Henry Quinn