[180] of the private life of the Iron Duke, never printed, and never before announced in any public or private company.
— from The Apple-Tree Table, and Other Sketches by Herman Melville

In the middle of the night he saw the pale light of a lantern in the corridor, after hearing the ponderous locks of the iron door which closed the cellar groan as they were turned.
— from Catherine De Medici by Honoré de Balzac

Place lamb on trivet in dripping pan, and pour the remaining ingredients over it.
— from Lowney's Cook Book Illustrated in Colors by Maria Willett Howard

Papa thinks the portrait looks older than I do.
— from Charlotte Brontë: A Monograph by T. Wemyss (Thomas Wemyss) Reid

C5-262 It seemed clear enough that any attempt to exclude the press from the building or to place limits on the information disclosed to them would have been resented and disputed by the newsmen, who were constantly and aggressively demanding all possible information about anything related to the assassination.
— from Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by United States. Warren Commission

Having formally taken possession of the country, and proved that he was in earnest by pillaging some of the villages, Pamphilo began to interrogate the natives respecting the precise locality of that immense deposit of gold which he expected to find in Florida.
— from Florida: Past and present together with notes from Sunland, on the Manatee River, Gulf Coast of South Florida: its climate, soil, and productions by Samuel C. (Samuel Curtis) Upham

Neither you nor me hasn't got a scurrick; and where to get a penny loaf on tick I don't know."
— from The Mysteries of London, v. 1/4 by George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds

To the second interrogatory he answers and says, I was personally acquainted with Thomas Jefferson before he became president of the United States, the precise length of time I do not recollect.
— from Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Complete by Aaron Burr

It is to be regretted that the narrative of the explorer affords no clew to the precise locality of this interesting discovery, but since it is doubtful that the mariner journeyed very far on foot from the head of navigation of the Potomac, it seems highly probable that the first American bison seen by Europeans, other than the Spaniards, was found within 15 miles, or even less, of the capital of the United States, and possibly within the District of Columbia itself.
— from The Extermination of the American Bison by William T. (William Temple) Hornaday