Nothing can be more alarming than the excessive latitude with which political offences are described in the laws of America.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

By efforts to get new varieties, we may adapt them to every latitude, from the gulf of Mexico to Pembina.
— from Soil Culture Containing a Comprehensive View of Agriculture, Horticulture, Pomology, Domestic Animals, Rural Economy, and Agricultural Literature by J. H. Walden

One of the most arresting "truths" that emerge, like silvery fish, at the end of the line of this Fisher in the abysses is the "truth" that any kind of departure from the Normal may become a means of mystic illumination.
— from Visions and Revisions: A Book of Literary Devotions by John Cowper Powys

As it was carried along the main-deck, I’m dishonest, if the young gentlemen didn’t follow it, with the water running down in streams from the corners of their mouths, and their tongues entreatingly lolling out, like a parcel of hungry dogs in Cripplegate, following the catsmeat-man’s barrow.
— from Rattlin the Reefer by Edward Howard

"This is my answer to the extraordinary letter from M. Gaillardet, who claims to be the sole author of La Tour de Neste.
— from My Memoirs, Vol. VI, 1832 to 1833 by Alexandre Dumas

35 Whether the treatment of the keys adopted in this movement is in accordance with the requirements of a strict fugue, must be decided by the masters of the school; it is undeniable that on it depends the character and effect of the movement, and that the essential laws of counterpoint are here apprehended and turned to account with deep insight into their true nature.
— from Life of Mozart, Vol. 3 (of 3) by Otto Jahn

Cumberland mountain loggers do not have their clothes hand tailored in Manhattan; and though the exact locality meant nothing to her, the town meant much.
— from A Pagan of the Hills by Charles Neville Buck

Mrs. Manning provided plain, well-cooked meals, which were far more attractive than the extemporized lunches with which he had thus far been content.
— from Mark Manning's Mission: The Story of a Shoe Factory Boy by Alger, Horatio, Jr.