A signal gun is fired from the palace; it is answered from the next station, and so on from station to station, till the firing has reached the outer gate of the city.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Eli Whitney was twenty-three when he decided to prepare for college, and thirty when he graduated from Yale; yet his cotton-gin opened a great industrial future for the Southern States.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

[1892.] Hitherto the letters have been given in full; from this point on passages are omitted and the omissions are indicated.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

“But tell me, I pray thee, Master Cold Soul,” said I, “where ye find the silk to weave such soft and beautiful stuff as that thy garment is fashioned from?”
— from Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood

They tell us you might sue us if there is something wrong with your copy of this etext, even if you got it for free from someone other than us, and even if what's wrong is not our fault.
— from Macbeth by William Shakespeare

At that moment the postman brought in a thin and sallow packet with a wonderful Indian postmark on it, and containing a most unattractive orange pamphlet of verse, printed [ix] at Bhowanipore, and entitled "A Sheaf gleaned in French Fields, by Toru Dutt.
— from Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan by Toru Dutt

At the head of Olive Street, abreast of Lindell's Grove, I found Frank Blair's regiment in the street, with ranks opened, and the Camp Jackson prisoners inside.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Such people are not deficient in either activity or equanimity in War; but they will never accomplish anything great unless a great intellectual force furnishes the motive, and it is very seldom that a strong, independent mind is combined with such a character.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

Swinging the rope over his head, and bending his body so as to give it full force, the captain brought it down upon the poor fellow's back.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

In some instances we were getting into fields far advanced above the then present levels of research.
— from The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects by Edward J. Ruppelt

Mond gas is free from tar, is cleansed of soot and dust, and holds less sulphur than ordinary producer gas.
— from Inventors at Work, with Chapters on Discovery by George Iles

So sung the blind girl in full faith.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

"It must not be supposed, as some have believed, that the fern root, wherever it grows, is fit for food.
— from The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by P. L. (Peter Lund) Simmonds

To preserve this spring for use in the Summer time, we procured a tin-worker to make a well, of galvanized iron, five feet long and ten inches diameter, into which are conducted the drain and the spring.
— from Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles by Henry F. (Henry Flagg) French

Greta, in five fathoms of water, was crying for help.
— from The Messenger by Elizabeth Robins

The garden is famed for its luxuriance.
— from The Philippine Islands by Ramon Reyes Lala