Fossil human remains have also been recovered from a calcareous conglomerate of the coral reefs of Florida, estimated by Professor Agassiz to be not less than 10,000 years old; [4] and the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia treasures the os innominatum of a human skeleton, a fragment of disputed antiquity, dug up near Natchez, on the Mississippi, beneath the bones of the megalonyx.
— from Prehistoric Man Researches into the Origin of Civilization in the Old and the New World by Wilson, Daniel, Sir

The Rebel divisions usually number nine or ten thousand, or did at that time, as we understood.
— from The Battle of Gettysburg by Franklin Aretas Haskell

It had a rugged ingle-nook occupying one side of the taproom, and on the wall picturesquely hung a very old pair of bellows, a domestic utensil now not often seen.
— from The Old Inns of Old England, Volume 2 (of 2) A Picturesque Account of the Ancient and Storied Hostelries of Our Own Country by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper

This calm day Utters no note of discord.
— from America, Volume 6 (of 6) by Joel Cook

He walked slowly homewards in the dusk, and did not remember to go to his solitary dinner until nearly nine o'clock.
— from Don Orsino by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

We stayed at the Union depot until nearly noon, or about eleven o'clock, I should judge.
— from Report of the Committee Appointed to Investigate the Railroad Riots in July, 1877 Read in the Senate and House of Representatives May 23, 1878 by 1877 Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Committee Appointed to Investigate the Railroad Riots in July