Machines were the Pemberton force, and their greatest rivals were the machines of steel and wood, at least one of which each new efficiency expert left behind him: Machines for opening letters and sealing them, automatic typewriters, dictation phonographs, pneumatic chutes.
— from The Job: An American Novel by Sinclair Lewis

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— from Argentina, Legend and History by Lucio Vicente López

[Pg 15] I— The Coming War While the guns roar from the North Sea to the Mediterranean, and the greatest armed host that history has ever known is still locked in a life-and-death struggle on a dozen fronts, another war, more potent and permanent perhaps than the one which now engulfs Europe, lurks beyond the distant horizon of peace.
— from The War After the War by Isaac Frederick Marcosson

It is true that it struck Mr. Meyer as somewhat peculiar that when he met these counts and barons in the street they did not seem to see him, and if his girls were with him, they and these friends of theirs did not even exchange looks; but it was his way not to trouble himself about anything unpleasant; besides, he fancied that great folks always behaved like this.
— from A Hungarian Nabob by Mór Jókai

This explains how it is possible for the writer to truthfully mention within these pages historical facts relative to certain Colored people becoming noted teachers, preachers, doctors, newspaper editors, etc., long before the Civil War and the freedom of all Negroes in America.
— from Colored girls and boys' inspiring United States history and a heart to heart talk about white folks by William Henry Harrison

In support of Lady Byron’s story she had no evidence except Lady Byron’s word.
— from The Love Affairs of Lord Byron by Francis Henry Gribble