Saturated with the outside light, my eyes couldn't make out a thing.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

This church hath a bishop, a dean, a precentor, chancellor, treasurer, and five archdeacons; to wit, of London, Middlesex, Essex, Colchester, and St. Albans: it hath prebendaries thirty, canons twelve, vicars choral six, etc.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

It records conversations over a telephone on this plain metal disc by means of localised, minute electric charges."
— from The Poisoned Pen by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve

That Providence, who so well orders all, With her own light makes ever calm the heaven, In which the substance, that hath greatest speed, Is turn'd: and thither now, as to our seat Predestin'd, we are carried by the force Of that strong cord, that never looses dart, But at fair aim and glad.
— from Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Paradise by Dante Alighieri

And the conviction still holds its ground; only lately my erudite correspondent, Dr. J. Burnard Davis, reminded me of it.
— from The Jew, The Gypsy and El Islam by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

Ou les fabrique avec des filaments tendres du mûrier et, après y avoir opposé un sceau au nom de l'empereur, on les met en circulation.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Rustichello of Pisa

A common Englishman has an almost pathetic pride and sense of proprietorship in the States; he is fatally ready to fall in with the idea that two nations that share their past, that still, a little restively, share one language, may even contrive to share an infinitely more interesting future.
— from The Future in America: A Search After Realities by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

It was essentially a college of learned men engaged chiefly in research and record, but also to a certain extent in teaching.
— from The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Here are long ranges of lofty mountains enclosing countless treasures of wealth in their rocky bosoms; beyond them you find wide stretches of treeless steppes, fertile as our western prairies, and boundless, apparently, as the sea.
— from The Underground World: A mirror of life below the surface by Thomas Wallace Knox

Of late many eminent Catholics, among them Kopp (afterwards Cardinal) have frequently visited me and honoured me with a confidence at once complete and gratifying.
— from William of Germany by Stanley Shaw

A single puff more or less might entirely change the order.
— from The March to Magdala by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty