“ Czarina Catherine reported entering Galatz at one o’clock to-day.”
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

In the Pleasure of this they can rise early, go abroad sleek and well-dressed, with no other Hope or Purpose, but to make a Bow to a Man in Court-Favour, and be thought, by some insignificant Smile of his, not a little engaged in his Interests and Fortunes.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Clare can a warrior’s feelings know, And weep a warrior’s shame; Can Red Earl Gilbert’s spirit feel, Buckle the spurs upon thy heel, And belt thee with thy brand of steel, And send thee forth to fame!”
— from Marmion: A Tale Of Flodden Field by Walter Scott

Gas, Pintsch, repair parts Catalog reference Each. Gates, coach tail do.
— from Material Classification Recommended by the Railway Storekeepers' Association by United States. Railroad administration. Division of finance

Coquerel, vicaire de St. Paul, devant le premier curé ou vicaire sur ce requis, en gardant les solennités en ce cas requises et accoutumées.'"
— from France and England in North America, Part V: Count Frontenac, New France, Louis XIV by Francis Parkman

I had thrown myself on the couch, and, as a miser jealously counts over his gold, fondling each precious bit with eager fingers, so I pondered on the happy hours spent with Zarlah, carefully reviewing each golden moment with its precious burden of Love's confessions.
— from Zarlah the Martian by R. Norman (Robert Norman) Grisewood

As far as the sight [pg 85] could reach, enchanting gardens were seen, opening away through long tracts of light and verdure, and sparkling every where with fountains, that circulated, like streams of life, among the flowers.
— from The Epicurean: A Tale by Thomas Moore

The mutineers were disorganised, the retreat became a rout, and they fled in all directions, being pursued by Sir Colin and staff with the cavalry and horse artillery up to the fourteenth mile-stone along the [Pg 145] Calpee road, every gun and ammunition waggon which had gone in that direction falling into our hands.
— from Recollections of a Military Life by Adye, John, Sir

To found a Béguinage at Paris seemed to her the most befitting mode of devoting her wealth; and her little admirer, Alice, gave up her longing desire that the foundation should be in England, when she learned that, as the wife of Nevil, her abode was likely to be in France as long as that country required English garrisons.
— from The Caged Lion by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

Campion was to ride straightway into Lancashire to get his manuscript and notes, left behind, his former companion Ralph Emerson going with him; and he was then to betake himself to the fresh mission field in Norfolk.
— from Blessed Edmund Campion by Louise Imogen Guiney

The lines of determination, similarly, about the mouth, are those of the individual who has the courage to say "No" to the tempting morsel when he doesn't need it; and the lines of weakness and irresolution are those of the nature which cannot resist either gastronomic or other temptation.
— from Preventable Diseases by Woods Hutchinson

They were accompanied by commissioners representing every government department, sent to study and report upon the methods and resources of foreign civilizations.
— from The War in the East: Japan, China, and Corea by Trumbull White

West to Panamá (Pearl Islands, Canal Zone, and Almirante); Costa Rica (El General and Guayabo); eastern Nicaragua (Greytown and the Río Escondido); northern Honduras (Puerto Castilla and Lancetilla); western Guatemala (Dueñas and Tecpán); eastern Oaxaca (Tehuantepec); Veracruz (Orizaba); Tamaulipas (Victoria); Nuevo León (Monterrey); southwestern Texas (mouth of the Pecos River, Camp Barkeley, Taylor County, and Fort Worth); and central Oklahoma (Oklahoma City).
— from Life Histories of North American Wood Warblers, Part One and Part Two by Arthur Cleveland Bent