Joseph Swiers, Company H, 155th Pennsylvania, a mere lad (only eighteen years of age;) his folks living in Reedsburgh, Pennsylvania.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

I think it is incumbent on European organisations and businesses to try and offer websites in three or four languages if resources permit.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Her fingers felt like iron rods, pressing into his flesh.
— from The Furnace of Gold by Philip Verrill Mighels

They had this ranch for some forty years, did their own cooking and washed their clothes, in fact, lived in real pioneer style.
— from Memories of Old Montana by Con Price

In another instance a rental of £1814 is payable (for little is really paid) by 365 crofters, and the whole population of the estate is estimated at more than 2300.
— from The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign Why It Exists, and How It May Be Extinguished by Henry Charles Carey

When the calf enters the passage with its back turned down toward the belly and udder, the bending back of the fore limbs is rare, probably because the feet can find a straighter and more nearly uniform surface of resistance in the upper wall of the womb and the backbone, and do not slide over a crest into an open cavity, as they do over the brim of the pelvis.
— from Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by Dr. (Benjamin Tilghman) Woodward

In vain did he address himself to his fellow labourer in revolutionary plots, the Counsellor of State, Real, who had been the intermedium between him and Talleyrand, when he was first enlisted among the secret agents; instead of receiving money he heard threats; and, therefore, with as good grace as he could, he made the best of his disappointment; he sported a carriage, kept a mistress, went to gambling-houses, and is now in a fair way to be reduced to the status quo before his brilliant exploits in Great Britain.
— from Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete by Various

The larvæ of the “hump-backed fly” live in rotting potatoes, mushrooms, radishes, etc., and when accidentally introduced into the intestine of man can, like other larvæ, live there twenty-four hours and even more, and may set up serious gastric disturbances.
— from The Animal Parasites of Man by Fred. V. (Frederick Vincent) Theobald

ft. above the sea, and 727 m. from London, is really part of the village of Fourneaux.
— from The South of France—East Half by C. B. Black

On the ground the fallen lay in rows, precisely as they had stood in the ranks.
— from Battles of the Civil War by Thomas Elbert Vineyard

ON THE FIRING LINE IN RUSSIAN POLAND —VIVID DESCRIPTION BY AN AMERICAN EYEWITNESS
— from America's War for Humanity by Thomas Herbert Russell