We may, therefore, assert that the most ancient Cornish lodes are younger than the coal-measures of that part of England, and it follows that they are of a much later date than the Irish copper and lead of Wexford and some adjoining counties.
— from The Student's Elements of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

When the long-looked-for day arrived for him to throw his arms around his father and mother and bid them good-by, he should have mounted a camel, like a youth of the Holy Land of old, and taken his solemn, tender way across the country toward Jerusalem.
— from The Reign of Law; a tale of the Kentucky hemp fields by James Lane Allen

Of course, you will have to allow me a certain latitude, and you'd better keep a copy of the memorandum; for if you should be detained in the West longer than you think you shall be, you may need it to refer to.”
— from The Fortune of the Landrays by Vaughan Kester

For the great festal days, they went up to Jerusalem marching and camping like armies; yet they were liberal in sentiment, and even tolerant to heathenism.
— from Ben-Hur: A tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace

“Suppose you had the money, and could live as you liked, where would you go?” demanded Larcher, slightly nettled.
— from The Mystery of Murray Davenport: A Story of New York at the Present Day by Robert Neilson Stephens

On page 347 is the most ambitious of the allegorical works among our illustrations, and is the work of Mr. A. C. Lucchesi, a young sculptor of whom great things may be expected.
— from The Quiver, 1/1900 by Anonymous