A half-inch magazine space is used each month by a certain electric manufacturing company in the Middle West, but its postage records show stamp purchases for a single month (November, 1909), resulting from that half-inch advertisement of $590.
— from Postal Riders and Raiders by W. H. Gantz

Thence they were borne into the choir, but the church had been so filled since early morning by a crowd, eager, as the dwellers in large towns always are, for a spectacle, that there was scarcely room for the two coffins to pass to the nave.
— from The Prussian Terror by Alexandre Dumas

But the weaknesse of this assertion, may bee easily manifest by a common experience, 148 for polished steele (whose opacity will not give any admittance to the rayes) reflects a stronger heate then glasse, and so consequently a greater light.
— from The Discovery of a World in the Moone Or, A Discovrse Tending To Prove That 'Tis Probable There May Be Another Habitable World In That Planet by John Wilkins

Afterwards when the constitution was framed, he objected that nothing had been done for the negro, and in his letters to the American people, written after his imprisonment in France, in which the constitution was caustically reviewed, he cries out again for this yoked man not yet to be freed for more than half a hundred years,—foreseeing that nothing good can in the end come from slavery, that every evil must bring a compensating evil.
— from Selected Works of Voltairine de Cleyre by Voltairine De Cleyre

The attacks must be often repeated, and the termination of mortal existence must be a consequence essential, and direct from those attacks, before such a result may be anticipated."
— from Varney the Vampire; Or, the Feast of Blood by Thomas Preskett Prest

There are three critical epochs during these Frankfort years, each marked by a central event which resulted in new developments of Goethe's character and genius.
— from The Youth of Goethe by Peter Hume Brown

LAST STAND As each morning brought a crisper edge to the air and a crisper outline to the margin of the forest against sunrise and sunset, the Lost Farm folk grew restless, and this restlessness was manifested in different ways.
— from Lost Farm Camp by Henry Herbert Knibbs