There was a Genevese, named Bagueret, who had been employed under Peter the Great, of the court of Russia, one of the most worthless, senseless fellows I ever met with; full of projects as foolish as himself, which were to rain down millions on those who took part in them.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The telephoto lens was capable of resolving objects on the lunar surface as small as 91.4 centimeters (three feet) in diameter.
— from Rockets, Missiles, and Spacecraft of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution by Lynne C. Murphy

He was already traveling at cruising speed, considerably less than top speed, but he didn't want to take a chance of ramming one of the Moro craft.
— from The Pirates of Shan: A Rick Brant Science-Adventure Story by Harold L. (Harold Leland) Goodwin

The mechanic, farmer, apprentice, clerk, merchant, and a large circle of readers outside of these classes will find in the volume a wide range of counsel and advice, presented in perspicuous language, and marked throughout by vigorous good sense; and who, while deriving from it useful lessons for the guidance of their personal affairs, will also he imbibing valuable instruction in an important branch of political economy.
— from Harper's Young People, February 24, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

Faults in plenty there surely are, whether judgment be taken of classicists or realists, or of the best standards of the Elizabethans.
— from Tragedy by Ashley Horace Thorndike

The rebellion thus raised by the zeal of the Protestants, was soon put down; but, according to the confession of Rohan, one of the ablest of their leaders, it was the beginning of all their misfortunes.
— from History of Civilization in England, Vol. 2 of 3 by Henry Thomas Buckle

He was the nephew of the Count of Regla, one of the old Spanish grandees, and one of the most picturesque characters in Mexican history.
— from The Curse of Pocahontas by Wenona Gilman

is to hold, in honor of the Grand Duke Constantine of Russia, one of those public reviews by which he exhibits, to such great advantage, the strength and majesty of his army.
— from The Girls' Book of Famous Queens by Lydia Hoyt Farmer

I can’t get the other coil of rope out of that back window without more light.”
— from The Secret of Casa Grande Mexican Mystery Stories #1 by Helen Randolph

There, the famous Colossus of Rhodes, one of the renowned Seven Wonders of the World, is completed, [241] and now that you have made the statue you can never forget it.
— from Things Worth Doing and How To Do Them by Lina Beard

Don't you remember how you said that a man's only chance of rising out of the mud was for some woman to give him a hand and help him up?"
— from The Three Furlongers by Sheila Kaye-Smith