And you'll sit beside me, and we'll look, not at visions, but at realities."
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

These were a numerous and varied band, and required no small amount of attention.
— from A Little Bush Maid by Mary Grant Bruce

Of course he is not a Vandal, but a Roman!
— from The Scarlet Banner by Felix Dahn

The boundary line between East and West had undoubtedly fluctuated a good deal in the fourth and fifth centuries, and the fact that there were not, as viewed by a Roman statesman, two Empires at all, but only one great World-Empire, which for the sake of convenience was administered by two Emperors, one dwelling at Ravenna or Milan and the other at Constantinople, Page 216 was probably the reason why that boundary was not defined as strictly as it would have been between two independent kingdoms.
— from Theodoric the Goth: Barbarian Champion of Civilisation by Thomas Hodgkin

—A man while experimenting recently with cottonseed oil for the production of a varnish, obtained to his surprise, not a varnish, but a rubber.
— from One Thousand Ways to Make Money by Page Fox