Our [100] twenty-four dogs rejoiced in endless varieties of names, English, French, and Indian, some popular names introduced by the Whites being freely given without reference to sex or colour.
— from The Barren Ground of Northern Canada by Warburton Pike

WAGNER'S MUSIC DRAMAS Retold in English Verse PARSIFAL TANNHÄUSER LOHENGRIN RHEINGOLD WALKÜRE (Each, cloth, 75 cents net)
— from Parsifal A Mystical Drama by Richard Wagner Retold in the Spirit of the Bayreuth Interpretation by Richard Wagner

There were offerings from heathen kings, such as those from Darius recorded in Ezra vi. 6-10, and the gifts of Artaxerxes (Ezra vii. 15), which may be regarded as incipient accomplishments; but such facts as these cannot exhaust the prophecy.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St. Matthew Chapters I to VIII by Alexander Maclaren

Dear reader, imagine Ellen very beautiful, and take my word for it that your fancy will not deceive you.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXII No. 4, April 1848 by Various

The elaborate account of the Druse religion is extremely valuable."— Examiner.
— from Campaigning in Kaffirland; Or, Scenes and Adventures in the Kaffir War of 1851-52 by William Ross King

He is, however, deeply read in Elizabethan verse and prose, as his Tales of the Mermaid Tavern , one of his longest, most painstaking, and least successful works, proves; and of all the Elizabethan men of action, Drake is his hero.
— from The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century by William Lyon Phelps

The definite composition of this acid salt, and the ease with which it decomposes, render it exceedingly valuable for certain chemical transformations accomplished by means of sulphuric acid at a high temperature, because it is possible to take, in the form of this salt, a strictly definite quantity of sulphuric acid, and to cause it to act on a given substance at a high temperature, which it is often necessary to do, more especially in chemical analysis.
— from The Principles of Chemistry, Volume I by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev

Charley knew that I could refuse him nothing, but the trip of several hundred miles into a district rarely, if ever, visited by foreigners, involved more of a risk than I cared to assume.
— from St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 4, February 1878 by Various