There was a sailor going up something like a rope ladder; going up and up; how could he?
— from The End of a Coil by Susan Warner

Christ has given us such laws and rules as are helpful and healthful to the soul: Antichrist seeketh to abuse those rules to our hurt and destruction.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

Dick hadn’t the heart to ask Harold to give up seeing Logan and Rutter’s Point play in the afternoon.
— from The Lucky Seventh by Ralph Henry Barbour

it is so feeble and impotent that unless we ascribe the circumstance to the mercy of God, we cannot sufficiently express our astonishment that the foe should have granted us so long a reprieve.
— from Peter Stuyvesant, the Last Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

We have found out that the sunlight and moonlight are identical, that the moon gives us spectrum like a reflection of the former, but has no atmosphere, and that comets are but gases or vapours.
— from Popular Scientific Recreations in Natural Philosphy, Astronomy, Geology, Chemistry, etc., etc., etc. by Gaston Tissandier

It was on dry ground in a little clump of grass, under some low and rather open bayberry bushes, on the edge of a boggy arm of the marsh, which extended up into the woods; it was built up about 2 inches above the ground and was made of short, dead straws and dead bayberry leaves; it measured 6 inches in outside and 3 inches in inside diameter.
— from Life Histories of North American Shore Birds, Part 1 (of 2) by Arthur Cleveland Bent