The German eagle, hammered, of course, no less cruelly than the bulldog, was still screaming and clawing, in his mad desire to cleave a way to Calais.
— from The Assault: Germany Before the Outbreak and England in War-Time by Frederic William Wile

John Gadsby established his own coach line from Alexandria to Philadelphia, and it was necessary to be a guest in City Tavern or his associated inns to get seat or ticket.
— from Seaport in Virginia George Washington's Alexandria by Gay Montague Moore

We must now transport ourselves to Boston, in order to find out how Edith's flight was discovered, and what effect it produced in the Goddards' elegant home on Commonwealth avenue.
— from The Masked Bridal by Sheldon, Georgie, Mrs.

Our belief in God also must be abandoned, but if we continue believing in God it follows that man is not responsible for his actions, that he cannot do wrong: "Man is what God made him; could only act as God enabled him or constructed him to act.
— from British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals by J. Ellis Barker

Perhaps one of the most useful and most easily obtainable is weak oatmeal gruel, either hot or cold.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 360, November 25, 1882 by Various

They are said to be good either hot or cold.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume II by Richard Vine Tuson

It provided fine and imprisonment for conspiring to oppose measures of the Government, for advising insurrection, and for libelling the Government, either House of Congress, or the President.
— from The United States of America, Part 1: 1783-1830 by Edwin Erle Sparks

As the last days of his life at Lambeth were coming to an end, Anthony began to send off his belongings on pack-horses to Great Keynes; and by the time that the Saturday before Mid-Lent Sunday arrived, on which he was to leave, all had gone except his own couple of horses and the bags containing his personal luggage.
— from By What Authority? by Robert Hugh Benson