Cunningham, the Ohio soldier, with leg amputated at thigh, has pick'd up beyond expectation; now looks indeed like getting well.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

Taking London to mean the whole of the area built upon and the outer public open - 217 - spaces that touch or abut on streets, or rows of houses, we find that South London, from east to west, exceeds North London in length, the distance from Plumstead and Bostell to Kew and Old Deer Park being about nineteen miles as the crow flies.
— from Birds in London by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

No winter is long enough, no lifetime is long enough, to tire out their fortitude and patience and love.
— from The Chief End of Man by George Spring Merriam

Que cette monstrueuse croyance, partagée aujourd’hui par trois cents millions de sectateurs, révolte en nous les instincts les plus énergiques de notre nature — qu’elle soulève toutes les répugnances et toutes les horreurs de notre âme — qu’elle nous paraisse aussi incompréhensible que hideuse — peu importe.
— from Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume 1 by George Grote

Philip's father had existed, not lived, in lodgings, changing them periodically, as he quarrelled with his landlady, or the landlady quarrelled with him.
— from The Pennycomequicks, Volume 2 (of 3) by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

The iron needle emits no longer its longitudinal tone, but a tone whose pitch corresponds to the number of interruptions (in a given time).
— from Philipp Reis: Inventor of the Telephone A Biographical Sketch by Silvanus P. (Silvanus Phillips) Thompson

Or, if we look to languages richer in inflections than English, by what process can we discover under what circumstances amo , I love, was changed, through the mere addition of an r , into amor , expressing no longer I love ,
— from Lectures on the Science of Language by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller

We were on a peaceful pilgrimage and could well dispense with visiting Coxwall Knoll, close above Brampton-Bryan, where Caractacus met his crushing defeat, and Sutton Walla, some five miles to the north of Hereford, where Offa, King of the Mercians, betrayed to assassination his guest, King Ethelbert of the East Angles; but we ought to have sought out Holm Lacy, for the sake of the Sir Scudamour of Spenser's "Faery Queene," and to have visited Hope End, near Ledbury, in loving homage to Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
— from From Gretna Green to Land's End: A Literary Journey in England. by Katharine Lee Bates

It is, moreover, damaging to the Archpriest who, in this particular passage, is simply translating from the First Act of Pamphilus de Amore (sc. iii.):— Quantus adesset ei nunc locus inde loqui!
— from Chapters on Spanish Literature by James Fitzmaurice-Kelly

On the 25th, at midnight, the vortex passed to the north of Liverpool: its northerly progress being very slow, being confined for three days between the parallel of Liverpool and its extreme northern limit in latitude about 57°.
— from Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence by Thomas Bassnett