“Toward morning Fred and I both got a good nap of nearly an hour.
— from Gulf and Glacier; or, The Percivals in Alaska by Willis Boyd Allen

On the eastern half of England we might get a great number of narrow gauge steam trams running along the present trunk roads.
— from Speculations from Political Economy by Charles Baron Clarke

The whole Pantheon of the lunar Gods and Goddesses, Nephtys or Neïth, Proserpina, Melitta, Cybele, Isis, Astarte, Venus, and Hecate, on the one hand, and Apollo, Dionysus, Adonis, Bacchus, Osiris, Atys, Thammuz, etc., on the other, all show on the face of their names and titles—those of “Sons” and “Husbands” of their “Mothers” —their identity with the Christian Trinity.
— from The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 1 of 4 by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky

We heard soon after, that the enemy we discovered in time was part of the French fleet then making for Trafalgar, and in a few days more we had the great and glorious news of Nelson’s splendid and complete victory over the combined fleets of France and Spain off Cape Trafalgar, on the 21st October, 1805, and of their almost complete capture and destruction.
— from Recollections of a Peninsular Veteran by Joseph Jocelyn Anderson

Here are some of the considerations in our defense planning: First, while determined to use atomic power to serve the usages of peace, we take into full account our great and growing number of nuclear weapons and the most effective means of using them against an aggressor if they are needed to preserve our freedom.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents