This Mardi-Gras pageant was the exclusive possession of New Orleans until recently.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

But in the absence of such evidence, we must appeal to the crater itself, where we behold a section of the whole mountain, without being able to detect any original nucleus of upheaved rock distinct from the rest; on the contrary, the whole mass is similar throughout in composition, and the cone very symmetrical in form; nor are there any clefts, such as might be looked for, as the effect of the sudden upthrow of stony masses.
— from Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: An admirer of the lovely color of his blue bruises Called his daughter to wash his feet Desert is a wonderful physician for a sick soul He is clever and knows everything, but how silly he looks now If it were right we should not want to hide ourselves None of us really know anything rightly One falsehood usually entails another Refreshed by the whip of one of the horsemen
— from Uarda : a Romance of Ancient Egypt — Volume 08 by Georg Ebers

The official number of unemployed rose from 578,000 at the beginning of 1993 to about 1 million - or roughly 1.4% of the work force - by yearend.
— from The 1994 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

But just how much we needed each other neither of us really knew—until we had to share a common sorrow.
— from Making the House a Home by Edgar A. (Edgar Albert) Guest

This third theory does not err in assuming that the people collectively are more than the people individually, or in denying society to be a mere aggregation of individuals with no life, and no rights but what it derives from them; nor even in asserting that the people in the sense of society are sovereign, but in asserting that they are sovereign in their own native or underived right and might.
— from The American Republic: Its Constitution, Tendencies, and Destiny by Orestes Augustus Brownson

" Moving nearer to me, he added in a mysterious undertone: "In this Russia of ours none of us really knows why he has come into existence.
— from Through Russia by Maksim Gorky

By the force of a late popular example, still too widely influential, grammatical authorship has been reduced, in the view of many, to little or nothing more than a mere serving-up of materials anonymously borrowed; and, what is most remarkable, even for an indifferent performance of this low office, not only unnamed reviewers, but several writers of note, have not scrupled to bestow the highest praise of grammatical excellence!
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown