HOCKEY commented on the present keen interest in the encoding world in creating: 1) machine-readable versions of dictionaries that can be initially tagged in SGML, which gives a structure to the dictionary entry; these entries can then be converted into a more rigid or otherwise different d
— from Workshop on Electronic Texts: Proceedings, 9-10 June 1992 by Library of Congress

Before firing, which is usually done electrically, the engineers calculate the exact diameter of the crater to be formed, and the previous night the infantry or engineers will have completed a trench forward from the front-line or "jumping-off" trench, to an intersection with the rim of the proposed crater.
— from Fighting the Boche Underground by H. D. (Harry Davis) Trounce

The earth-closet is a mechanical contrivance attached to the ordinary seat, for measuring out and discharging into the vault or pan below a sufficient quantity of sifted dry earth to entirely cover the solid ordure and to absorb the urine.
— from Health: How to get it and keep it. The hygiene of dress, food, exercise, rest, bathing, breathing, and ventilation. by Walter V. Woods

British pluck and manliness were equal to the direst emergency that ever called them forth.
— from England, Canada and the Great War by L. G. (Louis Georges) Desjardins

Before that could be done," exclaimed the English captain, "there would not be a man left in France to explain the reason for his defeat."
— from The Blot on the Kaiser's 'Scutcheon by Newell Dwight Hillis