The former fair had been held for the sale of horses, cattle, cheese, and other peasant produce, and the buyers had been merely cattle-jobbers and kulaks; but this time the function was to be one for the sale of manorial produce which had been bought up by wholesale dealers at Nizhni Novgorod, and then transferred hither.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

No sooner does a new number appear than the last one is already forgotten and joins the things of the past.
— from George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters of Borrow and His Friends by Clement King Shorter

For two days past the Dolphin had been sailing with difficulty through large fields of ice, sometimes driving against narrow necks and tongues that interrupted her passage from one lead or canal to another; at other times boring with difficulty through compact masses of sludge; or occasionally, when unable to advance farther, making fast to a large berg or a field.
— from The World of Ice by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

New boundary-lines were drawn, and new names assigned to the sundered provinces of the dismembered fatherland.
— from Joseph II. and His Court: An Historical Novel by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

One is led to suspect from an analysis of the Aryan languages that such differences are not natural, and that they have been unfortunately invented by grammarians to confuse the simple poetic outlook on life.
— from Instigations Together with An Essay on the Chinese Written Character by Ezra Pound

For two days past the Dolphin had been sailing with difficulty through large fields of ice, sometimes driving against narrow necks and tongues that interrupted her passage from one lead, or canal, to another; at other times boring with difficulty through compact masses of sludge, or, occasionally, when unable to advance farther, making fast to a large berg or field.
— from The World of Ice by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne