Let a certain number of such educated men and women, willing and able to work with their hands, as well as with their brains, each one previously trained to some necessary or useful handicraft, club their fortunes together.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 69, No. 425, March, 1851 by Various

A number of sailors extricated me amid language appropriate to their national brutality.
— from Traffics and Discoveries by Rudyard Kipling

In Jedburgh we lodged not at the inn; although the name of Spread Eagle much attracted us; but because every one who had come before us had sought lodging, we, too, would "lodge," if it be but for a night.
— from The Spell of Scotland by Keith Clark

These schists contain trilobites belonging to the genera Paradoxides, Olenus, Agnostus, and others, some of which present rudimentary forms, like the genus last mentioned, without eyes, and with the body segments scarcely developed, and others, again, have the number of segments excessively multiplied, as in Paradoxides.
— from The Student's Elements of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

They were now only six effective men, as John could not be of much use in carrying, and, moreover, was appointed to watch Percival.
— from The Settlers in Canada by Frederick Marryat

And here I agree with him: but our public debt is not of such enormous magnitude as to counterbalance the good effects of throwing out such a quantity of a stable paper as will answer all the purposes of a circulating medium.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 1 (of 16) by United States. Congress