Vauxhall Bridge , built by Walker, was opened in 1816; it is of iron, 798 feet long, and consists of nine equal arches.
— from Collins' Illustrated Guide to London and Neighbourhood Being a Concise Description of the Chief Places of Interest in the Metropolis, and the Best Modes of Obtaining Access to Them: with Information Relating to Railways, Omnibuses, Steamers, &c. by Anonymous

To say that she felt lonely, and cried one night because she wished to go back to Tideshead and be a village person again, and was homesick for her four-posted bed with the mandarins parading on the curtains, is only to tell the honest truth.
— from Betty Leicester's Christmas by Sarah Orne Jewett

Of a sudden the kayak of Unga came driving past me, and she looked upon me, so, with her black hair flying like a cloud of night and the spray wet on her cheek.
— from The Son of the Wolf by Jack London

It contained a half-sheet of note-paper, and between the folds lay a circle of narrow blue ribbon plaited in three strands.
— from Far to Seek A Romance of England and India by Maud Diver

CHATTE , a small two-masted vessel, formed like a cat or Norwegian pink.
— from An Universal Dictionary of the Marine Or, a Copious Explanation of the Technical Terms and Phrases Employed in the Construction, Equipment, Furniture, Machinery, Movements, and Military Operations of a Ship. Illustrated With Variety of Original Designs of Shipping, in Different Situations; Together With Separate Views of Their Masts, Sails, Yards, and Rigging. to Which Is Annexed, a Translation of the French Sea-terms and Phrases, Collected from the Works of Mess. Du Hamel, Aubin, Saverien, &c. by William Falconer

All languages are subject to a continuous change, not only from within, through natural growth and decay, but also from without, through the influence of foreign languages as carriers of new ideas.
— from The History of Yiddish Literature in the Nineteenth Century by Leo Wiener

In another year (1695) his prolific pen produced Love for Love , a comedy of nearer alliance to life, and exhibiting more real manners, than either of the former.
— from Lives of the English Poets : Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope by Samuel Johnson

The trees uniting their branches over my head, formed a verdant canopy, and cast a most refreshing shade; under my feet lay a carpet of Nature's velvet; grass intermingled with moss, and embroidered with the evening dew; jessamines, united with woodbines, twined around the trees, displaying their artless beauties to the eye, and diffusing their delicious sweets through the air.
— from Narrative of a Voyage to India; of a Shipwreck on board the Lady Castlereagh; and a Description of New South Wales by W. B. Cramp

Now, like the mist which I see hanging above the Hun Front line, a curtain of normality is blotting out the sharp abnormal edges of my landscape.
— from Living Bayonets: A Record of the Last Push by Coningsby Dawson