The necessity for these chapels of ease was especially felt in Yorkshire, where the inhabitants of so many outlying hamlets were cut off from their parish churches in winter time by impassable roads and flooded rivers, which is the reason time after time assigned by the commissioners, for the necessity of the existence of such chapels; and yet comparatively few of them were recommended for continuance by Sir Walter Mildmay and Robert Kelway in the returns to the commission.
— from The Eve of the Reformation Studies in the Religious Life and Thought of the English people in the Period Preceding the Rejection of the Roman jurisdiction by Henry VIII by Francis Aidan Gasquet

Mackenzie says: “The Indians informed me that at a very small distance from either bank of the river are very extensive plains frequented by large herds of buffaloes: while the moose and reindeer keep in the woods that border on it.
— from Trails of the Pathfinders by George Bird Grinnell

Then it dawned upon me why Santiago had said he would not be doing me any real kindness in talking of the discovery.
— from At the Point of the Sword by Herbert Hayens

Make a Round Knot in the end of a piece of string,
— from New Ideas for American Boys; The Jack of All Trades by Daniel Carter Beard