Folsom, as quartermaster, had a sort of scow with a large sail, with which to discharge the cargoes of ships, that could not come within a mile of the shore.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

And The last rose of summer was a lovely song.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

Since this was true, we wanted to be careful not to educate our students out of sympathy with agricultural life, so that they would be attracted from the country to the cities, and yield to the temptation of trying to live by their wits.
— from Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington

The riding lights of ships winked afar like setting stars, and the hills across the roadstead resembled rounded black masses of arrested thunder-clouds.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

The magnificent palace itself had disappeared; all that there was to show where it had once stood was a level surface covered with half-calcined tiles.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

Hardly waiting to see the fleet raft begin its trip toward the scene of their many mysteries, Garry hurried down to the wharf and water runway, down which the land-and-water types of craft were sent from the hangar: to one side was a landing stage for passengers from seaplanes, and at the end of that lay tied the “crash boat,” a swift, electrically propelled cruising launch kept always ready in case of any mishaps to seaplanes or other craft over the bay.
— from The Ghost of Mystery Airport by Van Powell

‘If people who make a rockery would consider that it is to be made of earth, supported with stones or rocks, they would be much nearer the right method than those who think of a rockery as a pile of stones with a little soil dribbled in among [153] them.
— from The Children's Book of Gardening by Mrs. Paynter

But if, the genera remaining the same, the species are changed, we have entered upon a new period; and no similarity of climate, or of geographical and local conditions, can then recall the old species which a long series of destructive causes in the animate and inanimate world has gradually annihilated.
— from The Student's Elements of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

109 For an account of Selim, who at last succeeded in dethroning his father, see Creasy, History of the Ottoman Turks , chap.
— from The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Volumes 1 and 2 by Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq

The mouth-piece is a good one, set with a large socket-piece of a black stone with green mottlings.
— from Fire-making Apparatus in the U. S. National Museum by Walter Hough

Only Susie, with a little sigh of relief, gave expression to the general feeling by saying, "Somehow I feel kind of light to-night.
— from Opening a Chestnut Burr by Edward Payson Roe

Parties of seamen were aloft loosening some of the sails, for the wind was favourable, and the captain had ordered some of the canvas to be set to assist the tug.
— from Maori and Settler: A Story of The New Zealand War by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

The latter Government, while in a vital sense a mere rope of sand, was a long step in the right direction; the earnest of the more perfect union yet to follow.
— from Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective by Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing) Stevenson