I then examined the fittings of this mechanism, whose power was increased a hundredfold by biconvex lenses that were designed like those in a lighthouse and kept its rays productively focused.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

The unwillingness of some of our critics to read any but the silliest of possible meanings into our statements is as discreditable to their imaginations as anything I know in recent philosophic history.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James

Onward they drive in dreadful race, Pursuers and pursued; Before that tide of flight and chase, How shall it keep its rooted place, The spearmen's twilight wood?—" "Down, down," cried Mar, "your lances down' Bear back both friend and foe!
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

I speak not this in estimation, As what I think might be, but what I know Is ruminated, plotted, and set down, And only stays but to behold the face Of that occasion that shall bring it on.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

And then we sat exchanging puffs from that wild pipe of his, and keeping it regularly passing between us.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Airports - with unpaved runways: total: 210 1,524 to 2,437 m: 12 914 to 1,523 m: 113 under 914 m: 85 (2007) Pipelines: refined products 900 km (2007) Railways: total: 2,778 km narrow gauge: 2,778 km 1.000-m gauge (2006) Roadways: total: 63,265 km (interurban roads) paved: 8,933 km unpaved: 54,332 km note: there also are 100,000 km of rural roads and 14,500 km of urban roads for a national total of 177,765 km (2004) Waterways: part of Lake Victoria system is within boundaries of Kenya (2006)
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

La najbaroj komence kredis, ke li volas mirigi ilin, kiel la vojaĝistoj amas fari, kaj ili ridis pri liaj rakontaĵoj.
— from International Language, Past, Present & Future With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar by Walter John Clark

I do so much appreciate your kindness in remembering poor me in durance.
— from The Nation Behind Prison Bars by George L. (George Lewis) Herr

Looking at those two, who in their brief sojourn had made and recorded some of the most ancient history we know, I recalled portions of their pictured story on the temple walls and tried to build a human semblance of their daily lives.
— from The Ship-Dwellers: A Story of a Happy Cruise by Albert Bigelow Paine

Powhatan gave token of his appreciation of the gifts by sending in return to King James a pair of his moccasins and one of his raccoon-skin blankets, but refused to kneel in receiving [Pg 51] the crown, so that Smith and Newport had to lean on his shoulders to force him down.
— from American Leaders and Heroes: A preliminary text-book in United States History by Wilbur F. (Wilbur Fisk) Gordy

They are known as Kelts, Iberians, Romans, Pelasgians and Semites.
— from A Hand-book to the Primates, Volume 2 (of 2) by Henry O. (Henry Ogg) Forbes

While minor military operations were conducted in the Province of Kursk, in Russia proper, the main body of the invading army occupied the Crimea and penetrated into the Donetz coal basin.
— from Current History, Vol. VIII, No. 3, June 1918 A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times by Various

This knowledge is rarely possessed by sinkers.
— from Water Supply: the Present Practice of Sinking and Boring Wells With Geological Considerations and Examples of Wells Executed by Ernest Spon

Jersey total: 358 km (2002) Jordan total: 7,694 km paved: 7,694 km (2006) Kazakhstan total: 91,563 km paved: 83,717 km unpaved: 7,846 km (2006) Kenya total: 63,265 km (interurban roads) paved: 8,933 km unpaved: 54,332 km note: there also are 100,000 km of rural roads and 14,500 km of urban roads for a national total of 177,765 km (2004)
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

"The last time, I sat down to play a game of chance amidst the fjords in a little valley hotel; a dreadful storm raged the whole while," Kseniya Ippolytovna remarked pensively.
— from Tales of the Wilderness by Boris Pilniak