It was a place of convenience, nothing more; a place of transit, through which transit should be rapid.
— from Four Meetings by Henry James

Though most blind persons either naturally possess or soon acquire an ear for music, there are yet numbers who, from the want of it or from some other cause, never make any proficiency as performers on an instrument.
— from Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 430 Volume 17, New Series, March 27, 1852 by Various

ad now been dead some hundreds of years; the truth of their messages was no longer disputed even by the priests and the scribes; their heresy was now the soundest orthodoxy; the custodians of orthodoxy would of course now make a place for their writings in the national archives.
— from Who Wrote the Bible? : a Book for the People by Washington Gladden

“I tell you there is only one carriage—” “Never mind, Aunt Polly.
— from Dorothy South: A Love Story of Virginia Just Before the War by George Cary Eggleston

[ In course of construction, near Mobile, Alabama ] [Pg 138]
— from The Future of Road-making in America by Archer Butler Hulbert

One can not make a play entirely of scenery, though the contrary seems to be the view of some [pg 322] managers, even on the stage of the regular theatre.
— from A Librarian's Open Shelf: Essays on Various Subjects by Arthur E. (Arthur Elmore) Bostwick

Among those within easy reach, and deserving of special notice, may be mentioned Croome Court, the seat of the Earl of Coventry (nine miles); and page 9
— from Handbook to the Severn Valley Railway Illustrative and Descriptive of Places along the Line from Worcester to Shrewsbury by John Randall