Who further regard it as no disgrace If loveliness lessen to serve the race, Nor point the finger of jesting scorn At her who carries the child unborn.
— from Last Poems: Translations from the Book of Indian Love by Laurence Hope

The scanty column moved down the road a mile and a half, then turned off to the left, and followed a farm road in a northeasterly direction between the two pikes.
— from The Life of Isaac Ingalls Stevens, Volume 2 (of 2) by Hazard Stevens

The former runs in a northeasterly direction and the latter in a southeasterly direction and they join at Kuanyao.
— from The International Development of China by Yat-sen Sun

The death of Mr. Webster postponed for some time the answer of the United States, but the proposal was finally rejected in a notable dispatch prepared by Webster's successor, Edward Everett.
— from The United States and Latin America by John Holladay Latané

[377] East of the Alleghany River significant traces of underground work are found running in a northeasterly direction from Greensburg through Indiana County to Clearfield, [378] a distance of seventy-five miles, and from Cumberland, Maryland, through Bedford and Pleasantville to Altoona, [379] about the same distance.
— from The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom: A comprehensive history by Wilbur Henry Siebert

[34] I must regret that Prendergast has not explained the origin, so obscurely hinted at in the ballad, of Whittington's connexion with the Cat; but it is at the same time a satisfaction to think, that by the use of the words "would," "could," and "should,"—"likely," "possibly," "probably," and "naturally," "fancy," "research," "inquiry," and "no doubt," (the use of which is so admirably displayed by Mr. Godwin,) I may be enabled to throw some light— lucem [232] dare ex fumo —on several dark parts of this difficult subject.
— from The Choice Humorous Works, Ludicrous Adventures, Bons Mots, Puns, and Hoaxes of Theodore Hook by Theodore Edward Hook

public and special-purpose telephone, telegraph, and teleprinter facilities; regional radio center; important COMPAC cable link between US-Canada and NZ-Australia; 53,228 telephones (71 telephones per 1,000 persons); broadcast stations - 7 AM, 1 FM, no TV; 1 Pacific Ocean INTELSAT earth station @Fiji, Defense Forces Branches: Republic of Fiji Military Forces (RFMF; including a naval division, police)
— from The 1994 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

The families or breeds which we have observed in the indigenous oak resemble what are found among almost every kind of vegetable, and graduate into each other,—those farthest removed in appearance, no doubt having power to commix by the pollen.
— from On Naval Timber and Arboriculture With Critical Notes on Authors who have Recently Treated the Subject of Planting by Patrick Matthew