THE SECOND WAS APRIL THE FIRST HOW Ethan A. Pratt, formerly of South New Medford, in the State of Vermont, came to be resident manager and storekeeper for the British Great Eastern Company, Ltd., on Good Friday Island, in the South Seas, is not our present concern.
— from From Place to Place by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

As the man did not understand a word of either Carthaginian, Latin, or Greek,—no bad qualification for an official who had to refuse troublesome visitors,—argument was useless.
— from Lords of the World: A story of the fall of Carthage and Corinth by Alfred John Church

It is built, as are all other buildings in the village, of timber and bamboos, tied together with cane and thatched with either cane leaves or grass—if the former, then the ridge of the roof is straight and gable-ended; if the latter, it is far higher in the centre, whence it curves down somewhat abruptly to each gable.
— from The Lushei Kuki Clans by John Shakespear

The chief difficulties I have before experienced were of a mixed nature--choked ascension pipes, entailing considerable loss of gas; the choking of the orifices from which the secondary heated air issued to join the producer gas; and the eating away, in a "scooped-out" sort of fashion, of the brick lining of the producers at the points where the primary air entered.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 601, July 9, 1887 by Various

[Footnote 120: John Esten Cooke, "Life of General R. E. Lee."]
— from The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 2 by Jefferson Davis

Young with the youth the sea’s embrace can lend, Our glowing limbs, with sun and brine empearled, Seem born anew, and in your eyes, dear friend, Rare pictures shine, like fairy flags unfurled, Of child-land, where the roofs of rainbows bend Over the magic wonders of the world p. 269 THE LANGUAGE OF NATURE’S FRAGRANCY
— from Theodore Watts-Dunton: Poet, Novelist, Critic by James Douglas

Telephones, free mail delivery, electric car lines, operas, great libraries, cathedrals—all come to the city first, some of them solely to the city.
— from Chapters in Rural Progress by Kenyon L. (Kenyon Leech) Butterfield