“Are you quite sure of that, Pencroft?” asked the engineer, looking at the sailor.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

But on the 24th June, 1717, the Grand Lodge of England adopted the following regulation: "That the privilege of assembling as Masons, which had hitherto been unlimited, should be vested in certain lodges or assemblies of Masons, convened in certain places; and that every lodge to be hereafter convened, except the four old lodges at this time existing, should be legally authorized to act by a warrant from the Grand Master for the time being, granted to certain individuals by petition, with the consent and approbation of the Grand Lodge in communication; and that, without such warrant, no lodge should be hereafter deemed regular or constitutional."
— from The Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Landmarks of Freemasonry by Albert Gallatin Mackey

The two favorite studies of my youth were botany and mineralogy, and subsequently, when I learned that the use of simples frequently explained the whole history of a people, and the entire life of individuals in the East, as flowers betoken and symbolize a love affair, I have regretted that I was not a man, that I might have been a Flamel, a Fontana, or a Cabanis.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Enter the FRENCH POWER and the ENGLISH LORDS BURGUNDY.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Massachusetts, Connecticut River, and Boston Bay, you think paltry places, and the ear loves names of foreign and classic topography.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

In most of the States situated to the south-west of the Hudson some great English proprietors had settled, who had imported with them aristocratic principles and the English law of descent.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

I thought the four miles of clearings would never be passed; and the English Line appeared to have no end.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

But after all, the rumors with which his name was connected were rumors only,—noise, sayings, words; less than words— palabres , as the energetic language of the South expresses it.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

When the exigencies of the season required greater efforts, sixteen hours were prescribed as the extreme limit, and the master was required to give extra pay for the extra time.
— from The History of Cuba, vol. 2 by Willis Fletcher Johnson

The enemy have driven the last defenders from the Chinn Hill and plateau, and their exultant lines go sweeping on to complete the victory.
— from The Life of Isaac Ingalls Stevens, Volume 2 (of 2) by Hazard Stevens

Thus Tucumán has lived in an atmosphere of storm and uncertainty and unceasing discussion, of discouragement and insecurity; the price of its geographical position at the extreme limit of the area in which cane can be grown.
— from The Argentine Republic: Its Development and Progress by Pierre Denis

Any one who passes along the East Lancashire Railway from Colne to Burnley, must be struck by the towering grandeur of Pendle Hill; and if he climbs it, he will be rewarded by a glorious panorama.
— from Three Apostles of Quakerism: Popular Sketches of Fox, Penn and Barclay by Benjamin Rhodes

Sketches of the old plantations, of quaintly interesting social customs, of historic localities and individuals, add to the value as well as to the interest of a book, whose vast detail is carefully marshalled and clearly presented.” + Boston Transcript p6 Ag 11 ‘17 440w + Lit D 55:42 S 29 ‘17 110w + Outlook 116:488 Jl 25 ‘17 110w “Merely as a contribution to local history this volume is of more than ordinary importance, because of the unusual care that has been given to its preparation, and the excellent literary form in which it now appears.”
— from The Book Review Digest, Volume 13, 1917 Thirteenth Annual Cumulation Reviews of 1917 Books by Various

The struggle was plainly to take place out here in the west, where the Prince seemed to be gathering power and the Earl losing it, unless indeed the wild Welsh kerns could be regarded as a set off against the desertion of English knights and nobles.
— from A Clerk of Oxford, and His Adventures in the Barons' War by Evelyn Everett-Green

Less happy perhaps and much less in the picture are the episodes learnt only at second hand and suggesting the technique and unreality of the imagined short story.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, February 21, 1917 by Various