Stop that; and let our readers enumerate the other first American landscape painters for themselves.
— from Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 05, April 30, 1870 by Various

Two thermometers hung but a few hundred yards from each other differ not unfrequently five, sometimes even ten degrees in their readings; [Footnote: Tyndall, in a lecture on Radiation, expresses the opinion that from ten to fifteen per cent.
— from The Earth as Modified by Human Action by George P. (George Perkins) Marsh

It is probable that the town will soon have two important feeders in branch lines of railway, extending, the one northward to the Colville mining region,—the other southward to the Palouse wheat country.
— from Wonderland; or, Alaska and the Inside Passage With a Description of the Country Traversed by the Northern Pacific Railroad by John Hyde

Like other reptilian eggs, those of the racer are dependent upon the warmth of their surroundings for incubation.
— from Natural History of the Racer Coluber constrictor by Henry S. (Henry Sheldon) Fitch

And just outside the city wall where the salt sand drifts in the wind, there was a little old ruined empty temple of the Lord of the Moony Tire, whose open door was as it were guarded by two sin-destroying images of the Deity and his wife, one on the right of the threshold and the other on the left, looking as if they had suddenly started asunder, surprised by the crowd of devotees, to make a way between.
— from A Syrup of the Bees by F. W. (Francis William) Bain

But my business is not to write the history of those uncertain days, though no one who considers the social life of Rome, either then or now, can afford to overlook the influence of political events upon the everyday doings of men and women.
— from Saracinesca by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

From actual experience I still knew very little of rural England, though of late years I had done some exploring.
— from The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography by A. J. (Alec John) Dawson

In these democratic days a seat in either House of Parliament is no longer the monopoly of a single privileged class: it lies within the reach of all who can afford the luxury of representing either themselves or their fellows at Westminster.
— from The Mother of Parliaments by Harry Graham

This morning he looked more disgusted and yawned more widely than ordinary, for he had sat up smoking until late, or rather, early, thinking of Lilias, and Esmeralda’s wonderful goodness to him, and he felt as if he could very willingly have knocked the awakener’s head off.
— from Just a Girl by Charles Garvice