He measured with his eye spruces five and six feet in diameter and redwoods even larger.
— from Burning Daylight by Jack London

Fear of Russian influence at Cabul, and the refusal of the Ameer Shere Ali to dismiss a Russian envoy, led to the declaration of war, this to the occupation of Cabul, that to the placing of a British Resident at the capital and his consequent murder, and then another “Army of Vengeance.”
— from The Story of the British Army by Charles Cooper King

y procesos se oyen y prosiguen con todo cuydado e dilixencia porque demas de los Inquisidores que de asiento rresiden en la Inquisicion de valladolid el Inquisidor general a proveido que dos de los del consejo que asisten con el vaian cada dia mañana y
— from A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 3 by Henry Charles Lea

Two or three of them are important Cromwellian documents, and require elucidation:— (LXV.)
— from The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660 Narrated in Connexion with the Political, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of His Time by David Masson

There was opposition enough to this in some quarters; of course, it never was once intended to ask such men as Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee for their consent.
— from Historical Romance of the American Negro by Charles Henry Fowler

"You can't do anything," replied Errington listlessly, "no one can do anything.
— from Whom God Hath Joined: A Question of Marriage by Fergus Hume

These she lifted—one by one—less gingerly than Phillis had done, and ransacked every likely hiding-place of papers or valuables, going through the operation with a rapid dexterity that astounded the old woman's weak mind, and made her ashamed of her own clumsiness.
— from At Last: A Novel by Marion Harland