It has just covered five thousand miles almost without pausing to breathe, constantly making forty-eight turns of the screw to a minute, accomplishing without stopping and without damage of any sort, and without much wear and tear of its substantial machinery, the longest journey, at the highest rate of sustained speed, that a monster of its size has ever undertaken, thus defeating [2] in this important test ships reputed to be faster, and which at first sight might be thought superior in speed.
— from The Last Days of Pekin by Pierre Loti

The antiquity and multitude of its saints have endowed the place with so much sanctity that at night scarcely anyone presumes to keep vigil there or during the day to spit upon its floor ... and certainly the more magnificent the ornaments of churches are the more they incline the brute mind to prayer and bend the stubborn to supplication.”
— from Leadwork, Old and Ornamental and for the most part English by W. R. (William Richard) Lethaby

At last it seems as if the God were sinking; But a new impulse fires the mind, Onward I speed, his endless glory drinking, The day before me and the night behind, The heavens above my head and under me the ocean.
— from Faust; a Tragedy, Translated from the German of Goethe by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

WTFO Scott didn't know what to make of it, so he entered a simple response.
— from Terminal Compromise by Winn Schwartau

Some estimates, based on measurements of incomplete skeletons, have exceeded one hundred feet, but these extremes are somewhat questionable.
— from Fossils: A Story of the Rocks and Their Record of Prehistoric Life by Harvey C. Markman

In some cases also the mixture of fixed air had by no means so much effect on the putrid air as, from the generality of my observations, I should have expected.
— from Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air by Joseph Priestley