The snow came down in pitiless showers, enveloping them in its white mantle.
— from Stories of the Lifeboat by Frank Mundell

Many of the shops are quite equal in appearance to those in Rio de Janeiro, and are provided with nearly the same articles, the [352] difference in price seldom exceeding twenty per cent.
— from Travels in the Interior of Brazil Principally through the northern provinces, and the gold and diamond districts, during the years 1836-1841 by George Gardner

Mr. Jagor remarks as follows on the subject: The reproductions of the large wall pictures discovered in that cave displayed, in part, so excellent technique that the question arose how much of this excellence is to be attributed to the prehistoric artist, and how much to his modern copyist.
— from Picture-Writing of the American Indians Tenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1888-89, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1893, pages 3-822 by Garrick Mallery

The astonished native who, on hearing the news, suddenly inquired of a bystander, "Who the devil is Polk?" simply echoed the common feeling, while his question provoked the general laughter of the Whigs.
— from Political Recollections 1840 to 1872 by George Washington Julian

Even after missionaries had succeeded in establishing mission stations, they [239] suffered much in health from exposure and lack of comfortable homes, and they were obliged to live on the coarse native food much of the time, on account of the difficulty in procuring supplies, even though they might have had sufficient money to procure better food.
— from South and South Central Africa A record of fifteen years' missionary labors among primitive peoples by Hannah Frances Davidson

We all know that animal matter when putrid will be dissolved into particles small enough to float in the atmosphere, too minute for the naked eye.
— from Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained by M. (Moses) Quinby