e que prudentes De promessas encheis aos pretendentes, E de esperanças vans aos Réos afflictos: Vós que lêdes processos infinitos; Que soffreis cavilózos requerentes; Cartas, memoriaes impertinentes; E por fim castigaes poucos delictos; Vós ficai-vos em paz; porque occupados Naõ deveis ser com clausulas escriptas De quem sem pleitos vive, e sem cuidados.
— from History of Spanish and Portuguese Literature (Vol 2 of 2) by Friedrich Bouterwek

The form of the building is a long square, 101 feet by 62; it is situated on a rising ground, open to the north on a fine down, exhibiting views agreeably romantic, enriched by plantations.
— from Survey of the High Roads of England and Wales. Part the First. Comprising the counties of Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Hants, Wilts, Dorset, Somerset, Devon, and Cornwall. etc. by Edward S. Mogg

It was in these military operations, and afterwards in the surveys for roads and canals, which, under the supervision of a Board of Internal Improvements, where confided to a portion of the same officers, assisted by civil engineers, that Poussin rendered himself so efficient as a practical and scientific surveyor, and became so perfectly familiar with all the internal resources of our extensive country, which he had thus most remarkable opportunities to study and appreciate, by crossing it in all directions, and, in fact, by visiting every state, and by following up and down every valley and river of the eastern half of the continent.
— from The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 by Various

A shout answered from the shore, and directly eager voices and rapid footsteps rushed toward the little cove; first came Ralph, wild with joy, leaping downward like a panther.
— from Mabel's Mistake by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens

Mrs. Dinsmore, Elsie, Violet, and Rosie all came in in the course of the afternoon and evening to ask how she did, and express the hope that she would soon be quite well again, and to try to cheer her up.
— from Elsie's New Relations What They Did and How They Fared at Ion; A Sequel to Grandmother Elsie by Martha Finley