A capacity of $40,000,000,000 or even of $25,000,000,000 is, therefore, not within the limits of reasonable possibility.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes

Stories of the class of Grimm’s Witchelmänner (Kinder und Hausmärchen) will be recalled by the legend of Rowli Pugh as here told.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

So to bed very weary, and a little galled for lack of riding, praying to God for a good journey to my father, of whom I am afeard, he being so lately ill of his pain.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

We talked of times gone by; of the happy period of our early love; of Raymond, Perdita, and Evadne.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

This emperor, the first of the name of Leo, has been distinguished by the title of the Great ; from a succession of princes, who gradually fixed in the opinion of the Greeks a very humble standard of heroic, or at least of royal, perfection.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Originally, the ‘tædæ’ seem to have been slips or lengths of resinous pine wood: while the ‘fax’ was formed of a bundle of wooden staves, either bound by a rope drawn round them in a spiral form, or surrounded by circular bands at equal distances.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

So, in our swift cruise through these deep strata, how many vessels I saw lying on the seafloor, some already caked with coral, others clad only in a layer of rust, plus anchors, cannons, shells, iron fittings, propeller blades, parts of engines, cracked cylinders, staved–in boilers, then hulls floating in midwater, here upright, there overturned.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

Holding that violence of language is evidence of feebleness of thought and lack of reasoning power, he kept his auditor constantly in advance of him, by suggestion rather than by strong asseveration, and by calmly stating the facts that ought to move the hearer, instead of by making passionate appeals, the man being always felt to be greater than the man’s
— from Words; Their Use and Abuse by William Mathews

Abroad, people have had such singular notions of the German students, that they could not for their lives conceive what could be made, in after-life, of such wild fellows; and have been amazingly astonished to hear, that they afterwards became like other reasonable people, and administered all sorts of offices of the state conscientiously, and with the most exemplary and calm discretion.
— from The Student-Life of Germany by William Howitt

It is the Life of Robert Price, a Welsh lawyer, and an ancestor of the gentleman whose ingenuity, in our days, has refined the principles of the Picturesque in Art.
— from Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Isaac Disraeli

Politics, I must tell you, at that time ran as high amongst the servants as the gentlemen, the servants, however, being almost invariably opposed to the politics of their respective masters, though both parties agreed in one point, the scouting of everything low and literary, though I think, of the two, the liberal or reform party were the most inveterate.
— from Lavengro: The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest by George Borrow

From the time we left Tokoor river, we had been followed by a lion, or rather preceded by one, for it was generally a small gun-shot before us; and wherever it came to a bare spot, it would sit down and grumble as if it meant to dispute the way with us.
— from Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, Volume 4 (of 5) In the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 and 1773 by James Bruce

Erika, looking very brisk, attractive and firm, marched into the room and cast at Martin a look of resigned patience.
— from The Ego Machine by Henry Kuttner

Our progress now became a little more interrupted by portages and small lakes, or rather ponds, through which we sometimes passed with difficulty, owing to the shallowness of the water in many places.
— from Hudson Bay by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

Five trunk lines of railroads penetrate and intersect the state.
— from Three Acres and Liberty by Bolton Hall

It is a land of rich pastures and teeming flocks and herds, a land of rolling mesas and precious running waters that at length unite in the Currumpaw River, from which the whole region is named.
— from Lobo, Rag and Vixen Being The Personal Histories Of Lobo, Redruff, Raggylug & Vixen by Ernest Thompson Seton