He was as dizzy as if Margaret, instead of looking, and speaking, and moving like a tender graceful woman, had been a sturdy fish-wife, and given him a sound blow with her fists.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

The Hoangho should be deepened at its mouth in order to give a good drawing to clear its bed of silt and carry the same to the sea.
— from The International Development of China by Yat-sen Sun

Measuring some twenty miles from north to south, by six from east to west, it is embraced by the two arms of the Gambia delta, and is marked in old maps as the Combo, Forni, and Felúp country.
— from To The Gold Coast for Gold: A Personal Narrative. Vol. I by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

Mr Rigby, glaring defiance, answered, "I meant it." "Oh waall," responded the Yankee Canadian, mildly, "that's all right; because I want you to know that I don't allaow folks to joke with me that way.
— from Two Knapsacks: A Novel of Canadian Summer Life by John Campbell

As the committee and the speakers were leaving the hall, the vicar kept Thomas Bradly back, and said to him: “This is wonderful indeed; it is the Lord’s doing, and is marvellous in our eyes.
— from True to his Colours The Life that Wears Best by Theodore P. Wilson

A blue wallpaper, at thirteen sous a roll, took the place of hangings; but this paper, already old, was torn in several places, and the breaches were concealed by scraps of paper of a different design, and, in many instances, of a different color, which gave to the room a sort of Harlequin aspect which was not altogether disagreeable—especially to those persons who like that costume.
— from Monsieur Cherami by Paul de Kock

If it were permissible to suggest a division where the author clearly intended no division should be, it might on the foregoing hypothesis be reasonable to prognosticate for Easter Day a more enduring interest than for the companion poem; since, whilst the [Pg 96] dramatic attraction is less powerful than in Christmas Eve , the treatment of subject goes deeper, and is more independent of temporary accessaries.
— from Browning and Dogma Seven Lectures on Browning's Attitude Towards Dogmatic Religion by Ethel M. Naish

" Hrdlička subsequently studied the remains of South America and says, "A conscientious, unbiased study of all the available facts has shown that the whole structure erected in support of the theory of geologically ancient man on that continent rests on very imperfectly and incorrectly interpreted data and in many instances on false premises, and as a consequence of these weaknesses must completely collapse when subjected to searching critici
— from Man, Past and Present by A. H. (Augustus Henry) Keane