Any that has imparted to his compositions, not merely so much truth as is enough to convey a story with clearness, but that individualising property, which should keep the subject so treated distinct in feature from every other subject, however similar, and to common apprehensions almost identical; so as that we might say, this and this part could have found an appropriate place in no other picture in the world but this?
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

The upper part of the caisson was divided into four floors, each of which was set aside for a specific purpose.
— from Lightships and Lighthouses by Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot

If property or money belonging to the wife, but in possession of the husband is used by him, with her knowledge and consent, in the payment of debts incurred for family expenses, or for other purposes connected with the support of the family, she cannot recover for the same, in the absence of an express agreement on his part to repay her.
— from Legal Status of Women in Iowa by Jennie L. (Jennie Lansley) Wilson

The 1953 edition of Pharmaceutical formulas , published by the London journal The Chemist and Druggist , includes formulas for eight of the ten old patent medicines described in this study.
— from Old English Patent Medicines in America by James Harvey Young

Our departure is fixed for eleven o'clock, by the special train which is to take Long Tom to Kimberley, where we are to join Colonel Villebois.
— from Ten Months in the Field with the Boers by Anonymous