In friendly letters our correspondents know something about us beforehand, but in business we may be writing to perfect strangers, who can only judge of us by the figure we cut on a sheet of note-paper.
— from The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII: No. 353, October 2, 1886. by Various

Guests of the Giant Forest Lodge or Camp Kaweah should have their mail addressed care of either resort, but Sequoia National Park must be added as the post-office addressed.
— from Sequoia [California] National Park by United States. Department of the Interior

Domitian, we know, for lack of Christians, killed flies.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

Wild stories tell the sailors, coming and going, whom one can scarce contradict for lack of certain knowledge; and is it not an age of wonders in real life?
— from Ten Great Events in History by James Johonnot

“This is a Home for little orphan children kept up by the Salvation Army.
— from The City of Fire by Grace Livingston Hill

Surely this is a setting in no wise improbable for the beginning of the famous romance of the love of Antony and Cleopatra, and its development as probable as its beginning; the follies committed by Antony for the seductive Queen of the Orient, the divorce of Octavia, the war for love of Cleopatra, kindled in the whole Empire, and the miserable catastrophe.
— from Characters and events of Roman History by Guglielmo Ferrero

But a certain old campaigner, who used to be a first lieutenant of cavalry, knows.
— from Stories from the Trenches: Humorous and Lively Doings of Our 'Boys Over There' by Carleton B. (Carleton Britton) Case