Then came news of the illness of a dear relation of mine in Chili.
— from The Rover of the Andes: A Tale of Adventure on South America by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

The general agent was in great glee over the matter; for I had arranged with him that he should have the whole of the three thousand dollar prize as his own, if he would not demand the five hundred dollars reward of me, in case the matter worked out rightly, and we managed to get back a good share of the money stolen from the young man.
— from Knots Untied; Or, Ways and By-ways in the Hidden Life of American Detectives by George S. McWatters

"When my whole life is one dreary record of misery, I cannot always be patient.
— from The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage by Bernard Shaw

At the latter place it crossed the Maumee, and reached the shore of the Detroit river opposite Malden, in Canada.
— from The Indian Captive A narrative of the adventures and sufferings of Matthew Brayton in his thirty-four years of captivity among the Indians of north-western America by Matthew Brayton

Between the double rows of massive Ionic columns runs the colonnade.
— from The Architecture and Landscape Gardening of the Exposition A Pictorial Survey of the Most Beautiful Achitectural Compositions of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition by Louis Christian Mullgardt

But in 9b, which belongs to the 105th-117th days of the year, a 115 day revolution of Mercury is computed.
— from Commentary on the Maya Manuscript in the Royal Public Library of Dresden by Ernst Wilhelm Förstemann