In that year the printing-office is removed to "the house of Mr. A. Cameron, King Street," and it is added, "subscriptions will be received there and at the Toronto Coffee House, York."
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

I had to make the best of this sort of treatment for the time being, but I had comforting daydreams of a future when I should be a great and honored pilot, with plenty of money, and could kill some of these mates and clerks and pay for them.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

SPRINGS MEDICINAL :- At Chippenham, Kington St. Michael, Draycot, Seend, Epsom, Melksham, Dundery-hill, Lavington, Devizes, Minety, Wotton Bassett, &c.; Sir W. Petty's "Queries for the Tryall of Minerall Waters" CHAP.
— from The Natural History of Wiltshire by John Aubrey

'Yes,' Madge answered, 'Captain King sent me flowers once or twice, and some of them have kept very well.
— from The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols by William Black

A few months afterwards Councillor Küstner sent for my new opera to Leipzic, and in September the first representation of it on that stage took place.
— from Louis Spohr's Autobiography Translated from the German by Louis Spohr

In cutting through the joints he showed some knowledge of anatomy, seeing that he used nothing but a split bamboo, which makes a convenient knife, since it is only necessary to split off a fresh portion to obtain a sharp edge.
— from The Fijians: A Study of the Decay of Custom by Basil Thomson

And there have been men of universal minds and comprehensive knowledge since Bacon, Leibnitz, Goethe, Humboldt, men whose thoughts were at home everywhere, where there was something to be known.
— from Bacon by R. W. (Richard William) Church