Still there was hope: his officers were yet faithful; the forage of the north bank of the Cavery was utterly destroyed; and the active Poornea, at the head of the irregular cavalry, was out burning villages and setting fire to the grass of the wide plains.
— from Tippoo Sultaun: A tale of the Mysore war by Meadows Taylor

I saw in one glance that he was poorly dressed, and pale, and distressed, and, taking a place at the head of the grave, he delivered an address which I have never heard surpassed in tenderness, and paid a tribute to the dead which started the tears of the tired, sorrowing women afresh.
— from The Story of a Country Town by E. W. (Edgar Watson) Howe

Sarmiento says it is useful in those Parts to observe the Crozier , which is 30 Degrees above the Antartick Pole, and that he made use of it, for taking of Latitudes, as we do in our Hemisphere of the North Star , Observations for Sailors.
— from The Discovery and Conquest of the Molucco and Philippine Islands. Containing their History, Ancient and Modern, Natural and Political: Their Description, Product, Religion, Government, Laws, Languages, Customs, Manners, Habits, Shape, and Inclinations of the Natives. With an Account of many other adjacent Islands, and several remarkable Voyages through the Streights of Magellan, and in other Parts. by Bartolomé Leonardo de Argensola

He was {163} prevented, and remained in his own country to control its destiny, and take a position at the head of affairs.
— from The Backwoods Boy; or, The Boyhood and Manhood of Abraham Lincoln by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

Each year the Medical Officer of Health for Fulham drew attention to, and protested against, the high rate, nearly 50 per cent., of infantile mortality under five, in 1867–8.
— from The Sanitary Evolution of London by Henry (Henry Lorenzo) Jephson

[78] Professor Hyslop's father, Mr Robert Hyslop, was a private person in the strictest sense of the word; he never did anything to attract public attention to him; he did not write in the papers, and never, or hardly ever, lived in towns.
— from Mrs. Piper & the Society for Psychical Research by Michael Sage