The deterioration is due to the complete revolution in the conditions of modern civilization.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

Day after day their advance continued, resulting in the capture of many thousands of prisoners and the reoccupation of many miles of Albanian and Serbian territory.
— from A School History of the Great War by Charles Augustin Coulomb

Now she could read ironically the courtship of man and maid, dallying by river-paths, beside running water, overarched by boughs that had protected a thousand such courtships.
— from Lady Good-for-Nothing: A Man's Portrait of a Woman by Arthur Quiller-Couch

He was surprised, however, at not once seeing that Bonne Maman whose name was constantly recurring in the conversation of M. Joyeuse, entering into the least details of his existence, hovering over the household like the emblem of its perfect ordering and of its peace.
— from The Nabob by Alphonse Daudet

To Francis Tongue Rufford , of Prescott House, in the county of Worcester, fire-brick manufacturer, Isaac Marson , of Cradley, in the same county, potter, and John Finch , of Pickard Street, City Road, in the county of Middlesex, manufacturer, improvements in the manufacture of baths and wash tubs, or wash vessels.
— from The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Vol. XLIX April-October 1850 by Various

The writer heard of a striking illustration of this a few days since which is given herewith: Mr. Joseph Jacques is connected with the Vermont Central Railroad in the capacity of master mason.
— from Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 4, January 26, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside by Various

First of all the Chambezé rises in the country of Mambwé, N.E. of Molemba.
— from The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 by David Livingstone