In their excursion they had gone as far as the main branch of Maria’s river, at the distance of ten miles, through an open extensive valley, in which were scattered a great number of lodges lately evacuated.
— from History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. II To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6. by William Clark

LITTLE ERIK OF SWEDEN STOCKHOLM LITTLE ERIK OF SWEDEN BY MADELINE BRANDEIS Photographic Illustrations GROSSET & DUNLAP publishers new york by arrangement with the A. Flanagan Company copyright , 1938, by a. flanagan company printed in the united states of america Those who posed for the pictures in LITTLE ERIK OF SWEDEN: Carsten Grande, Jr. as Erik: who not only looks like Erik but who plays the piano and sings just like the hero of this tale.
— from Little Erik of Sweden by Madeline Brandeis

It not only lasted long enough to justify itself in a beautiful and touching epilogue, but it gave to the world the scientific work and what (while time was) were of far greater value, the delightful qualities of Fleeming Jenkin.
— from Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson

With no one limme [limbe, E, F] of any art indude: Like would to like, and praise you: but because, Your poeme onely hath by us applause, Renews the golden world; and holds through all The holy lawes of homely pastorall; Where flowers, and founts, and Nimphs, & semi-Gods, And all the Graces finde their old abods: Where forrests flourish but in endlesse verse; And meddowes, nothing fit for purchasers: This Iron age that eates it selfe, will never Bite at your golden world; that others, ever Lov'd as it selfe: then like your Booke do you Live in ould peace: and that for praise allow.
— from The Faithful Shepherdess The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher (Volume 2 of 10). by John Fletcher

The Rhone and the Rhine are becoming not only less like each other, but as the one becomes green and the other blue, so also are both losing all trace of the original dull white of the snow water.
— from Belcaro; Being Essays on Sundry Aesthetical Questions by Vernon Lee

According to Professor Delitzsch, the number of kings composing the dynasty is stated on the tablet to be twenty-one, and not thirty-one as was formerly read, and the number of lost lines exactly corresponds with this figure.
— from History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12) by G. (Gaston) Maspero

No one looking like either was to be seen, and Tom's mind at once went back to the vacant seats at the table.
— from Tom Swift in the City of Gold; Or, Marvelous Adventures Underground by Victor Appleton