an oak in Sallow Vallets Enclosure near the Drive, of the Quercus sessiliflora kind, its leaves growing on long stalks, and the acorns clustering together on short stalks, and perhaps 200 years old, being 13 feet round at 6 feet from the ground, and still in a very flourishing condition.
— from The Forest of Dean: An Historical and Descriptive Account by H. G. (Henry George) Nicholls

For instance, Modwena was credited with 5,884 l. ; Ayrshire, 35,915 l. ; Johnny Morgan, 4,067 l. ; Donovan, 55,154 l. ; Semolina, 12,686 l. ; Miss Butterwick, 8,179 l. ; Raeburn, 8,374 l. ; The Prize, 3,134 l. ; St. Serf, 5,809 l. ; Memoir, 17,300 l. ; Schoolbrook, 2,705 l. ; Amiable, 10,582 l. ; Other celebrated stock also bred by the Duke included Anna, Charm, Catcher Clatterfeet, Elsie, Eisteddfod, Galston, Katherine II., Little Go, Oyster, Rattleheels, St. Bridget, Simony II., The Task, The Owl, The Smew, Troon, Ulva, and many more.
— from The Portland Peerage Romance by Charles J. Archard

"The idea that there is a true knowledge, which must be taught, protected, patronized by the state, to the exclusion of false knowledge, is losing ground—one of the results of the general enfeeblement of notions of government."
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 22, September, 1878 by Various

The latter, as is well known, is long gone out of fashion, and with it, we imagine, the description of wit and anecdote,
— from From the Oak to the Olive: A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Julia Ward Howe

George, the eldest son, who succeeded, died in the following year, leaving by his wife Elizabeth, eldest daughter and co-heir of Henry Fynes-Clinton, of Kirkstead, in Lincolnshire, grandson of Henry, second Earl of Lincoln, a son, John Willoughby, who succeeded, but he dying issueless in 1678, the barony reverted to his uncle, John, son of George, the seventh lord.
— from Historic Sites of Lancashire and Cheshire A Wayfarer's Notes in the Palatine Counties, Historical, Legendary, Genealogical, and Descriptive. by James Croston

"I've got thirty cents in change and I must have a cigar," I answered, "and you know I like good ones.
— from My Adventures with Your Money by George Graham Rice