It would have been easy after our return to have made up from libraries a most engaging description of the Provinces, mixing it with historical, legendary, botanical, geographical, and ethnological information, and seasoning it with adventure from your glowing imagination.
— from Baddeck, and That Sort of Thing by Charles Dudley Warner

32.—Cambrian Fossils: a, Protospongia fenestrata , Menevian Group; b, Arenicolites didymus , Longmynd Group; c, Lingulella ferruginea , Longmynd and Menevian, enlarged; d, Hymenocaris vermicauda , Lingula Flags; e, Lingulella Davisii , Lingula Flags;
— from The Ancient Life History of the Earth A Comprehensive Outline of the Principles and Leading Facts of Palæontological Science by Henry Alleyne Nicholson

I shall name this,” and he pointed to the pond, “Florence Lake after my eldest daughter.
— from Further Adventures of Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason Corner Folks by Charles Felton Pidgin

In Eighteen Hundred Fifty-four Lewes and Miss Evans disappeared from London, having gone to Germany, leaving letters behind, stating that thenceforward they wished to be considered as man and wife.
— from Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 by Elbert Hubbard

Green, or fresh legumes are more easily digested than the dried legumes.
— from Dietetics for Nurses by Fairfax T. (Fairfax Throckmorton) Proudfit

Everyone knows how the victories of Frederic the Great were in part to be attributed to the careful fire-drill of his infantry, who, with their iron ramrods and rapid manual exercise, used to put in a far larger and more effective discharge of musket-balls per minute than their adversaries.
— from Wellington's Army, 1809-1814 by Charles Oman