It is not even certain that any stars have been blotted out.
— from The Spirit Land by Samuel B. (Samuel Bulfinch) Emmons

If the construction I contend for is not admitted, then the latter parts of the description will have no effect, contrary to a settled principle of law and common sense, that every part of an instrument shall have effect, if it can by any reasonable construction.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 4 (of 16) by United States. Congress

Before the new enemy could take a suitable position, half-a-dozen guns' crews on each of the lower decks shifted to the side on which she was, and in a few moments their fire brought down her only remaining and already damaged mast.
— from The Influence of Sea Power upon the French Revolution and Empire 1793-1812, vol 1 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

We need no Crowns; Love best contented is In shady Groves, and humble Cottages, Where when ‘twould sport, it safely may retreat, Free from the Noise and Danger of the Great; Where Victors are ambitious of no Bays, But what their Nymphs bestow on Holy-days; Nor Envy can the amorous Shepherd move, Unless against a Rival in his Love.
— from The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume II by Aphra Behn

But none ever came to anything, so far as I could see.
— from Home Again by George MacDonald

In the mean time, my New England companion took a survey of the surrounding country, which he pronounced one of the most fertile, and admirably adapted to every purpose of agriculture.
— from Scenes and Adventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

Use numbers, each corresponding to a species.
— from Making a Rock Garden by H. S. (Henry Sherman) Adams

Would not everything come to a standstill?
— from The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History by Victor Hugo

This was a direct challenge to the popular element to try its strength with the royal one—language which was sure to put a high-spirited people on its mettle: the first utterance of that language, which no warning, no experience could teach a Stuart to abandon, till the utterance was quenched in blood.
— from Cassell's History of England, Vol. 2 (of 8) From the Wars of the Roses to the Great Rebellion by Anonymous