[12] in sight, north or south or due east, nor a wisp of trailing smoke from any passing steamer: I got an impression of silent, unbroken immensity which seemed a fitting prelude to the solitudes into which my mission had brought me.
— from Ravensdene Court by J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher

Not one scintilla of doubt ever intruded thereafter.
— from James Watt by Andrew Carnegie

A ship, however, seldom goes due North or South or due East or West.
— from Lectures in Navigation by Ernest Gallaudet Draper

Diagnosis, or recognition of the disease, must have been necessarily imperfect, when no scientific nosology, or system of disease* existed, and the knowledge of anatomy was quite inadequate to allow of a precise determination of the seat of disease; but symptoms were no doubt observed and interpreted skilfully.
— from Nature Cure: Philosophy & Practice Based on the Unity of Disease & Cure by Henry Lindlahr

Each made his poetical appearance in the columns of a newspaper called the World ; each professed Republican opinions; each wrote poems not remarkable for truth to nature or sobriety of diction; each represented a school; and the name of each became as a red rag to the Giffords who played the part of the bull in the china shop.
— from Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, March 1885 by Various

He saw that her restless hands were always busy; not one speck of dust escaped her sharp, black, eye.
— from Fairy Tales from Gold Lands by May Wentworth

He has been lifted up as the Brazen Serpent was, He has become conspicuous by His very lowliness; by a self-sacrifice so complete that He gave His all, His life, He has won to Himself all men and made His will supreme, so that it and no other shall one day everywhere rule.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I by Marcus Dods

There is not one scrap of documentary evidence to show that such was the case.
— from Practical Argumentation by George K. (George Kynett) Pattee