And then he gave with most consummate skill A true description of Sobriety, Where man and wife walk up and down Life's hill In sweet conjugal peace and piety; Their love increasing as more years they see, Their children growing up like olive plants To love and cherish much their memory, And if need be in Age supply their wants, Then meet with that reward which God to such still grants.
— from The Emigrant Mechanic and Other Tales in Verse Together with Numerous Songs Upon Canadian Subjects by Thomas Cowherd

They were ready now to go on down the Columbia to find their new homes in this great, unknown Land of Promise.
— from Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail by Howard R. (Howard Roscoe) Driggs

How sick May became of that gaunt, unending line of posts stretching before her.
— from From Veldt Camp Fires by H. A. (Henry Anderson) Bryden

The seeds are commonly sown about two feet and a half asunder, and grow up like other plants.
— from An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1 by Alexander Hewatt

“Then three cheers for the skipper, and may he get us lots of prize-money,” exhorted Bob, to the intense amusement of Captain Brisac; and the cheers were given with such energy that I have no doubt they were distinctly heard on board the Frenchman.
— from Under the Meteor Flag: Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War by Harry Collingwood

But as these things are so glorious, and so great, as to admit of no complete explication in this short tract, give us leave, O people of Great Britain, to lay before you a little sketch of your future felicity, under the auspicious reign of such a glorious prince, as we all hope, and believe the pretender to be.
— from And What if the Pretender should Come? Or Some Considerations of the Advantages and Real Consequences of the Pretender's Possessing the Crown of Great Britain by Daniel Defoe

Bede speaks of a magnificent copy of the Gospels in letters of the purest gold, upon leaves of purple parchment.
— from The Queer, the Quaint and the Quizzical: A Cabinet for the Curious by Frank H. Stauffer

Most difficult is it to persuade strangers that the grand universal laws of physics, such as apply indiscriminately to material, electrical, magnetic, and other systems, are not essentially different from descriptions.
— from Popular scientific lectures by Ernst Mach

My athlete on the instant, gave such good Great undisguised leap over post and pale Right into the mid-cirque, free fighting-place.
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition by Robert Browning