There are plenty of little yachts and yawls at Calcutta or Madras which would serve our turn well.
— from The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle

In the different operations, however, which are necessary for the preparation of linen yarn, a good deal more industry is employed, than in the subsequent operation of preparing linen cloth from linen yarn.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Many things, that have passed of late years, are gone quite from my memory, while those so long ago, I can see as if in a glass.'
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

Indeed, it is in entire accordance with the tenor of the Trade Circulars, one of which, now lying before us, dated so late as the 22d of March, and emanating from a well-known Free-trading Manchester firm, refers to "the enormous losses sustained upon the exports made in the early part of last year, and the still greater losses on imports, many of which have been sustained by the same parties."
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 71, No. 438, April 1852 by Various

Over the culinary department presided of late years a fair lady of colour, Charlotte by name, who was, as she loved to say, "de onlee lady in de dam Injun country," and who moreover was celebrated from Long's Peak to the Cumbres Espanolás for slap-jacks and pumpkin pies.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 64 No. 396 October 1848 by Various

I think he has painted most of the very rich women of fashion who have come to Paris of late years, and he has become so prosperous, has such a polite celebrity, and his opinions upon art are so conclusively quoted, that the friendship of some of us who started with him has been dangerously strained.
— from The Guest of Quesnay by Booth Tarkington

That is all changed now, however, and ski-ing has produced of later years a race of robust men and healthy women, presenting the greatest possible contrast to those who lived “in the good old times,” unconscious of the benefits of exercise and fresh air, shut up in close and dingy rooms to escape from the dreaded cold and the touch of an icy blast.
— from Ski-running by Willi Rickmer Rickmers

[63] This is one of the rare cases in which, after much deliberation, and with the advice of several distinguished naturalists, I have departed from the Rules of the British Association; for it will be seen that Mitella of Oken, and Ramphidiona of Schumacher, are both prior to Pollicipes of Leach; yet, as the latter name has been universally adopted throughout Europe and North America, and has been extensively used in geological works, it appears to me to be as useless as hopeless to attempt any change.
— from A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 1 of 2) The Lepadidae; Or, Pedunculated Cirripedes by Charles Darwin

The worst is that everything is just double the price of last year, as, of course, no beef can be eaten at all, and the draught oxen being dead makes labour dear as well.
— from Letters from Egypt by Duff Gordon, Lucie, Lady

There was a standing wicker pyramid containing bread and butter, plates of little yellow and red cakes, shortbread and very heavy plum cake black with currants.
— from The Captives by Hugh Walpole

It is a strange reflection that at forty-five, when we are just entering upon the most enjoyable period of life, you already began to think of growing old and to look backward.
— from Looking Backward: 2000-1887 by Edward Bellamy

Occupational safety still demands attention, as I pointed out last year, and legislation to improve the Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act is still needed.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents