This novelty puzzled and rather alarmed them, yet their prevailing feeling was an eager desire to come to close quarters with the enemy.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

Burgundy and Provence alone remain, after the year 888, as memorials of the Middle Kingdom.
— from Medieval Europe by H. W. Carless (Henry William Carless) Davis

But the large prospects are at once lost as you enter the river valley and proceed at right angles to your former course.
— from Armenia, Travels and Studies (Volume 2 of 2) The Turkish Provinces by H. F. B. (Harry Finnis Blosse) Lynch

The Hanover Society of Industry prepared a report about three years ago, quoted by Mr. Underhill, which shows that in that parish about seven eighths of the people are on holdings of their own, of which 891 consist of 1 acre, 431 of 2 acres, and 802 average 5-¼ acres each.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

We take it at sixpence per annum rent and twenty years' purchase.
— from The Laird's Luck and Other Fireside Tales by Arthur Quiller-Couch

The first settler, John Batman, [3] arrived in [Pg 64] the harbour of Port Phillip as recently as the year 1835, since which time the colony has been planted, the city of Melbourne has been built, and Victoria covered with farms, mines, towns, and people.
— from A Boy's Voyage Round the World by Samuel Smiles

The audience looked at the programme and read: "A Thousand Years B.C. ...
— from The Business of Life by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

If there was any spot of earth that was peaceful and restful, and that you loved best, wouldn't you want to go to it?
— from Kit of Greenacre Farm by Izola L. (Izola Louise) Forrester

The man who went to Pittsburgh as recently as ten years ago carried away some pretty definite memories of neglected railroad stations and inferior hotel facilities.
— from The Personality of American Cities by Edward Hungerford

Till breathless he grins Dead-beaten in effort on effort To keep the grapes under, Since still when he seems all but master, In pours the fresh plunder From girls who keep coming and going With basket on shoulder, And eyes shut against the rain's driving; Your girls that are older,— For under the hedges of aloe, And where, on its bed Of the orchard's black mould, the love-apple Lies pulpy and red, All the young ones are kneeling and filling Their laps with the snails Tempted out by this first rainy weather,— Your best of regales, As to-night will be proved to my sorrow,
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition by Robert Browning

You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist, that you wish to destroy.
— from Certain Personal Matters by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells