Simeon Halliday, a tall, straight, muscular man, in drab coat and pantaloons, and broad-brimmed hat, now entered.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Auvergne (ō-vār-nyė), a province, Central France, now merged into departments Cantal and Puy-de-Dôme, and an arrondissement of Haute-Loire.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Atrebates to Bedlis Vol. 1 Part 3 by Various

The full effect of these measures in destroying credit and paralysing trade was not felt at once.
— from Ireland under the Stuarts and During the Interregnum, Vol. 3 (of 3), 1660-1690 by Richard Bagwell

Facts much graver than any of these would come to light if similar investigations were held also in the more industrially developed countries and provinces of Germany.
— from Woman under socialism by August Bebel

The writer must put in color, and idealize the scene and the people engaged in it, he must invent dramatic circumstances and positions and language, so as to produce a “picture.”
— from That Fortune by Charles Dudley Warner

It consisted of a graduated glass cylinder 190 mm long and 12 mm in diameter containing a piston and a rod with a spear point.
— from Bloodletting Instruments in the National Museum of History and Technology by Toby A. Appel

But that they will be very considerably diminished by the galling chastisement which Prussia has inflicted, is what we try to believe, although the events which have transpired in Paris during the last fortnight, in which the bloodthirsty cruelty and aimless recklessness of the Paris mob have been met by the miserable irresolution, divided councils, and practical imbecility of the Versailles government, almost destroy all reasonable hope.
— from British Quarterly Review, American Edition, Vol. LIII January and April, 1871 by Various