The case for the light is made in the same manner as the dark-room lantern, described in Chapter XI, and illustrated by Figs.
— from The Boy Craftsman Practical and Profitable Ideas for a Boy's Leisure Hours by A. Neely (Albert Neely) Hall

Their position was this: they were then located on the eastern end of the island; the lake and the islet were situated almost in the centre of their domain, or say at a point about six miles distant, as the crow flies, from the point where they then were; whilst the spot where the wreck lay, if measured in the same way, would be about five miles further on.
— from The Missing Merchantman by Harry Collingwood

This hill, like every attractive locality in Mexico, is the scene of romantic traditions of the common people.
— from Mexico and Its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited by Robert Anderson Wilson

Taken between 11.10 and 11.20 P.M. ; distinguished, like the last, by a considerable amount of continuous spectrum and by a faint line (No. 3), not seen in the last spectrum, while No. 3 in the last is missing in this spectrum.
— from Auroræ: Their Characters and Spectra by J. Rand Capron

Lignite is mined in the surrounding country.
— from North Dakota: A Guide to the Northern Prairie State by Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of North Dakota

I have so long indulged myself in the society of a few friends I love, that I am but ill suited for the world, as anything unreasonable vexes me , and the want of sincerity offends me .
— from Munster Village by Hamilton, Mary, Lady

This adoration is said to be one of the chief, if not the leading dogma of the Hindu religion, and there is scarcely a temple throughout the land which has not its Lingam, in many instances this symbol being the only form under which the deity of the sanctuary is worshipped.
— from Phallic Miscellanies Facts and Phases of Ancient and Modern Sex Worship, as Illustrated Chiefly in the Religions of India by Hargrave Jennings

The lover I mean is the son of the rich Christian, Mary.
— from Serapis — Volume 02 by Georg Ebers

If this earth were to take fire you would smile to think how little it mattered in the scheme of the universe; all the wailing of the egoist mob would not affect you.
— from The Letters of Ambrose Bierce, With a Memoir by George Sterling by Ambrose Bierce

Norma listened, interested more in the speaker than in the subject, her mind occasionally wandering, as it had been wont to do of late, to a comparison of ideals.
— from Where Love Is by William John Locke