As this was an offer which required some consideration before it was refused, I wrote to Tom pointing out to him the advantages of settling down with a good business, with a wife to assist him, and a cat and dog all ready installed, upon such advantageous conditions.
— from Poor Jack by Frederick Marryat

If a message is to be sent a long distance, a relay is used so as to turn into the wire additional currents of electricity, because electricity loses some of its strength if carried over a very long wire, and a relay adds new or fresh currents from separate batteries.
— from 1000 Things Worth Knowing by Nathaniel C. (Nathaniel Clark) Fowler

Mrs McFee is author of “Outlines, devices and recreations in United States geography,” “Studies in American and British literature,” and other books for school use.
— from The Book Review Digest, Volume 13, 1917 Thirteenth Annual Cumulation Reviews of 1917 Books by Various

These live together in one large house, divided as regards its upper stories into rooms capable of accommodating from four to eight persons.
— from The Communistic Societies of the United States From Personal Visit and Observation by Charles Nordhoff