But a few days ago I was talking with a lady, a most estimable lady living on a little New England farm of some five or six acres.
— from What All The World's A-Seeking The Vital Law of True Life, True Greatness Power and Happiness by Ralph Waldo Trine

e hele oe a i ka malihini, e lulu lima olua,
— from The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai by S. N. Haleole

This charm, that makes each look, love, Of thine a rose; {145} Thy face an open book, love, Where beauty gleams and glows, And thought to music set.
— from The Poems of Madison Cawein, Volume 2 (of 5) New world idylls and poems of love by Madison Julius Cawein

* In a monthly historical work, published at Concord, New Hampshire, in 1823, by Jacob B. Moore, Esq., late librarian of the Mew York Historical Society, is a brief biographical sketch of David Gray, who was a "spy" of the "Neutral Ground."
— from The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, Vol. 1 (of 2) or, Illustrations, by Pen And Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence by Benson John Lossing

The scope of interest in the larger minds embraces long lines of history leading up and down the eras of development.
— from On Mr. Spencer's Data of Ethics by Malcolm (Writer on Herbert Spencer) Guthrie

Une heureuse envie d’imiter la prononciation du maître, ne pourrait-elle mettre en liberté les organes de la parole, dans les animaux qui imitent tant d’autres signes, avec tant d’adresse et d’intelligence?
— from Man a Machine by Julien Offray de La Mettrie

The trust company, while not a banking institution in the sense that it accepted deposits of cash from citizens of the town, having confined its operations to the financing of mining enterprises, loomed large on the political and business horizon because of its increasing financial and political power.
— from My Adventures with Your Money by George Graham Rice