The name of Hamilton Fish, as Secretary of State, suggested extreme conservatism and probable deference to Sumner.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

In writing to her mother of this occasion she said: Elizabeth Cady Stanton We had to rush up by Wednesday night's boat, without any preparation, and passed the ordeal last night, members asking questions and stating objections.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

He walked to and fro, looking down for several minutes, occasionally saying softly: “Eighteen cents.”
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

Hippolita, his wife, an amiable lady, did sometimes venture to represent the danger of marrying their only son so early, considering his great youth, and greater infirmities; but she never received any other answer than reflections on her own sterility, who had given him but one heir.
— from The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole

If the labours of men of science should ever create any material revolution, direct or indirect, in our condition, and in the impressions which we habitually receive, the Poet will then sleep no more than at present; he will be ready to follow the steps of the man of science not only in those general indirect effects, but he will be at his side carrying sensation into the midst of the objects of science itself.
— from The Letters of Anne Gilchrist and Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman

The Alcaic ode is composed of several strophes, each consisting of four verses, the first two of which are always eleven-syllable alcaics of the first kind; the third verse is an iambic dimeter hypercatalectic consisting of nine syllables; and the fourth verse is a ten-syllable alcaic of the second kind.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

He would have welcomed an outburst of some sort, even condemnation of Clara and her actions.
— from Baseball Joe, Captain of the Team; or, Bitter Struggles on the Diamond by Lester Chadwick

On Saturday night, November 15, 1902, at the Working Men's College, Great Ormond Street, Sir Edward Clarke, K.C., delivered an address on "The Glory and Decay of English Literature in the Reign of Victoria."
— from Poems: New and Old by Newbolt, Henry John, Sir

The types of elevators and conveyers now commonly used in all parts of the world are so numerous that in the following pages only some selected examples can be treated.
— from The Romance of Modern Mechanism With Interesting Descriptions in Non-technical Language of Wonderful Machinery and Mechanical Devices and Marvellously Delicate Scientific Instruments by Archibald Williams