Given at Sydney, this eighteenth day of November, 1828.
— from Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia — Complete by Charles Sturt

He gave a short time every day to each pupil, carefully pointing out our errors and explaining the principles of art.
— from Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume I. by Samuel Finley Breese Morse

"I aims ter git a snack ter eat," demurred Newt.
— from The Code of the Mountains by Charles Neville Buck

Now slowly falls the dull blank night, and still, All through the starless hours, the mighty Rain Smites with perpetual sound the forest-leaves, And beats the matted grass, and still the earth Drinks the unstinted bounty of the clouds— Drinks for her cottage wells, her woodland brooks— Drinks for the springing trout, the toiling bee, And brooding bird—drinks for her tender flowers, Tall oaks, and all the herbage of her hills.
— from Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition by William Cullen Bryant

Where the soul falleth,—that is, whether in a state of grace or in sin,—there it will lie forever; but those who go to purgatory die in a state of grace, and so their eternal destiny is heaven—like those just souls who died before Christ; yet they are not fit for heaven immediately, for 'nothing defiled can enter therein.'"
— from The Cross and the Shamrock Or, How To Defend The Faith. An Irish-American Catholic Tale Of Real Life, Descriptive Of The Temptations, Sufferings, Trials, And Triumphs Of The Children Of St. Patrick In The Great Republic Of Washington. A Book For The Entertainment And Special Instructions Of The Catholic Male And Female Servants Of The United States. by Hugh Quigley

The majority of the Senate committee object to the proposed dam at Gatun, and say that— Earth dams founded on the drift and silt of ages, through which water habitually percolates, to be increased by the pressure of the 85-foot lock when made, have been referred to by many of our technical advisers as another element of danger.
— from The American Type of Isthmian Canal Speech by Hon. John Fairfield Dryden in the Senate of the United States, June 14, 1906 by John F. (John Fairfield) Dryden

Five years ago I reached the goal, and since then every day has been a preparation for what we shall do tonight.
— from The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen