It is now the Atbara, giving its name to that peninsula, which it incloses on the east as the Nile does on the west, and which was formerly the island of Meroë; but it never was the Tekesel, as authors have called it, deriving the name from the Ethiopic word Taka, which undoubtedly signifies, fear, terror, distress, or sadness; I mean, this was never the derivation of its name.
— from Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, Volume 3 (of 5) In the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 and 1773 by James Bruce

In face, I notice, the American girl is quite distinct from her English sister.
— from The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 2 by Harry Furniss

Is not that a good idea?”
— from Veiled Women by Marmaduke William Pickthall

DEAREST ARCHIE: Quentin is now taking a great interest in baseball.
— from Letters to His Children by Theodore Roosevelt

Is not this a glaring instance of a false intellectual procedure arising out of a false moral temper?
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 64 No. 396 October 1848 by Various

Well, I never took a great interest in defeats.
— from African and European Addresses by Theodore Roosevelt

Is not this a good instance of the true difference of meaning in these two words, which are now loosely used as if strictly synonymous?
— from Notes and Queries, Number 63, January 11, 1851 by Various

A T the commencement of the railway system I naturally took a great interest in the subject, from its bearings upon mechanism as well as upon political economy.
— from Passages from the Life of a Philosopher by Charles Babbage