Here the height of the houses produced a somewhat different impression; Louie looked out none the less keenly, but her chatter ceased.
— from The History of David Grieve by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

Food is the generator of animal energy, fuel that of the power obtained from steam and other mechanical expansive engines; rain, as it falls on the hill-tops and descends in long lines of natural force to the sea coasts, furnishes power to the water-wheel; while wind may be utilised to generate mechanical energy through the agency of windmills and other contrivances.
— from Twentieth Century Inventions: A Forecast by George Sutherland

The date is about 1560 to 1570, and it has been described in local literature of nearly 200 years ago.
— from Illustrated History of Furniture: From the Earliest to the Present Time by Frederick Litchfield