Seine-et-Marne (356), a north-midland department of France lying E. of Seine; the Marne crosses the N. and the Seine the S.; has a fertile soil, which grows in abundance cereals, vegetables, and fruits; many fine woods, including Fontainebleau Forest, diversify its undulating surface.
— from The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall

Nor was it possible to include his considerations on the regulation of rivers, the making of canals and so forth (No. 920, Books 10, 11 and 12_); but those passages in which the structure of a canal is directly connected with notices of particular places will be found duly inserted under section XVII (Topographical notes).
— from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete by da Vinci Leonardo

A validated license is required for delivery in United States ports of specified types of petroleum and petroleum products to foreign vessels, if the foreign carrier has called at any point under Far Eastern Communist control, or at Macao, since January 1, 1953, or will carry commodities of any origin from the United States destined directly or indirectly for any such point within a period of 120 days in the case of a vessel, or 30 days in the case of any aircraft.
— from East-West Trade Trends Mutual Defense Assistance Control Act of 1951 (the Battle Act); Fourth Report to Congress, Second Half of 1953 by United States. Foreign Operations Administration

At his departure, he left for me, with Captain Thomas P. Turner, commandant of the prison, fifty dollars in United States currency.
— from The Secret Service, the Field, the Dungeon, and the Escape by Albert D. (Albert Deane) Richardson

Why, you got quite a bargain in the old engine, Mr Willows, and that fellow did it up splendidly.”
— from Will of the Mill by George Manville Fenn

People of ordinary education have found difficulty in understanding such derivatives as irreparable , indissoluble ; but the moment the words irrepairable , indissolveable are pronounced, they are led to the meaning by a previous acquaintance with the words repair and dissolve .
— from Dissertations on the English Language, with Notes, Historical and Critical; to Which is Added, by Way of Appendix, an Essay on a Reformed Mode of Spelling, With Dr. Franklin's Arguments on that Subject by Noah Webster

Oil and gas field development in United States, 1944.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1973 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

Water for drinking in United States, 369 .
— from The Historical Child Paidology; The Science of the Child by Oscar Chrisman

It contained four dollars in United States currency. Bos'n!
— from Wounds in the rain: War stories by Stephen Crane