My letter was a screed of four pages, and very likely it said less than her note of one short page.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

In 1878 the state geologist, Professor N. H. Winchell, announced the existence of iron ore fit for steel production about Vermilion Lake in St. Louis County; but neither the university nor the state authorities took sufficient interest to cause a proper examination of the region to be made.
— from Minnesota, the North Star State by William Watts Folwell

Yet the Aaronic Priesthood, as the Melchizedek, is an everlasting Priesthood, as before exhibited, and continueth forever as an appendage to the Melchizedek Priesthood; and hence in the old apostolic days, when under an organization of the Melchizedek, the latter is the most prominent, and very little is said about the Levitical or Aaronic: probably on account of the peculiar traditions and superstitions of the Jews, which made it almost impossible for them to comprehend the greater or Melchizedek.
— from Items on the Priesthood, presented to the Latter-day Saints by John Taylor

“I am very poorly, and very low in spirits; my wife grows weaker every day, and our anxieties are great.
— from Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II by Charles James Lever

Very many men of no more than five feet or less in [265] stature, and of correspondingly small proportions, are veritable lions in strength.
— from Life in a Railway Factory by Alfred Williams