Now of these two, the Pruth is the more easily navigated, but the Sereth is, at Fundu, joined by the Bistritza which runs up round the Borgo Pass.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

This proposition implies that material elements not only act all around, or in every direction, but also that they act with equal intensity at equal distances.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 19, April 1874‐September 1874 by Various

[26] Thanks to the difference in the clocks, the Buenos Ayres newspapers are able to publish in their morning editions news appearing at the same time in London and Paris.
— from South America To-day A Study of Conditions, Social, Political and Commercial in Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil by Georges Clemenceau

The prevailing sentiment among them is of the ascetic character, as the stranger may perceive, who sees the peasantry marching in serene gravity to their plain places of worship on the mountain pinnacle, or under the shelter yielded by a clump of black pines amidst a waste of snow: but here the clergy are more guides than dictators; and not a few may be found who doubt their opinions, and find matter for thoughtless delight, rather than religious awe, when they follow the echoes from steep to steep, and watch for the gleams of the summer lightning playing among the defiles.—The diversity grows more striking as civilization advances; but it has not yet become perplexing in the most enlightened nations in the world.
— from How to Observe: Morals and Manners by Harriet Martineau

Six days passed in this manner; every night he heard the voice, while the little forest-spirit's terrible threat rang continually in his ears.
— from The Marvellous History of the Shadowless Man, and The Cold Heart by Adelbert von Chamisso

It implies a potency in the moving entity, not in space.
— from The Mystery of Space A Study of the Hyperspace Movement in the Light of the Evolution of New Psychic Faculties and an Inquiry into the Genesis and Essential Nature of Space by Robert T. Browne

What planted us in the Philippines was the use of our power in the most efficient naval and military defense then available for our own institutions where they already exist, against the attack of Spain.
— from Problems of Expansion As Considered in Papers and Addresses by Whitelaw Reid

I recollect his saying that he disliked seeing women eat, or to have their company at dinner, from a wish to believe, if possible, in their more ethereal nature; but he was rallied into avowing that his chief dislike to their presence at the festive board arose from the fact of their being helped first, and consequently getting all the wings of the chickens, whilst men had to be content with the legs or other parts.
— from Reminiscences of Captain Gronow by R. H. (Rees Howell) Gronow