A fragment of roasted coffee under the microscope.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

In the motor-car we could whiz from one ridiculous “Cabaret Unique” to another.
— from The Emily Emmins Papers by Carolyn Wells

Words of advice, orders, abuse, were hurled at the man’s head, and Mark, as he watched, thought of his efforts in the cutter to save the blacks’ lives, and it seemed to him like a natural form of retaliation coming upon the slavers’ heads, as history almost repeated itself, with a difference.
— from The Black Bar by George Manville Fenn

Friends of rival candidates urged their claims on Ward, but he stuck to his promise and the place went to Joe.
— from Baseball Joe on the School Nine; or, Pitching for the Blue Banner by Lester Chadwick

there is but one reply; the facts on record compel us to answer in the affirmative.
— from The cremation of the dead considered from an aesthetic, sanitary, religious, historical, medico-legal, and economical standpoint by Hugo Erichsen

On over the veranda, and in through broken windows and shattered doors, swarming like flies over reeking carrion, until the flames which burst through the peaked roof of the mansion drove them forth, and made them draw sullenly, protestingly away, leaving the tattered bodies of Pillette and his wife and daughters to be consumed in the roaring furnace.
— from Carmen Ariza by Charles Francis Stocking

In the heat and fury of the combat the fleet of Rogers came under the fire of the French and Indians on the island, many being wounded
— from The Rulers of the Lakes: A Story of George and Champlain by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

“He placed her at the head of his household, and his simple servants obeyed her as their mistress; and his sociable neighbors, willing to forgive old rebuffs, called upon the young pair.
— from Cruel As The Grave by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth