The railroad trains kept thundering by us—long freights, dusty and indomitable, bringing their loads from the Missouri River almost seven hundred miles in the east.
— from Desert Dust by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin

Mr. Nathan Haskell Dole, the author of a History of Russia , and the translator of Tolstoi and other Russian authors, furnishes for Mr. Cooke's Browning Guide Book the following notes:— "A verst is about .66 of a mile (3500 feet).—I take it the highway broad and straight from the Neva's mouth to Moscow's gates of gold must refer to the legend that when the first railroad was built from one city to the other, the Emperor Nicholas ordered that it should run absolutely straight, himself marking it with a ruler on the map.
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition by Robert Browning

She looked across the room, and saw her mother in conversation with the composer.
— from The Way of Ambition by Robert Hichens

In the time of Volney, they reckoned about six hundred men in this village capable of bearing arms, of whom about one hundred were Latin Christians.
— from Palestine, or, the Holy Land: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Michael Russell

Scarce had this piteous moan passed her tender lips when Rodrigues (as I am told), opening the door, made her a mighty respectful reverence, and, says he— "Madam, I am delighted you have recovered of your swoon, and I trust you feel no ill-effect of the rough usage we were forced to exercise in bringing you hither."
— from The Admirable Lady Biddy Fane Her Surprising Curious Adventures In Strange Parts & Happy Deliverance From Pirates, Battle, Captivity, & Other Terrors; Together With Divers Romantic & Moving Accidents As Set Forth By Benet Pengilly (Her Companion In Misfortune & Joy), & Now First Done Into Print by Frank Barrett

Phil and her father were camping for a week in their old haunt in Turkey Run, and she had motored into town to carry Amzi to his farm, where he meant to spend the Glorious Fourth in the contemplation of the wheat Fred had been harvesting.
— from Otherwise Phyllis by Meredith Nicholson

Now, with this complex apparatus of talisman, rite and spell, how much is left to wishing or the projection of the will?
— from The Origin of Man and of His Superstitions by Carveth Read

Remember me to Reynolds, and say how much I should like to hear from him; that Brown returned immediately after he went on Sunday, and that I was vexed at forgetting to ask him to lunch; for as he went towards the gate, I saw he was fatigued and hungry.
— from Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends by John Keats

But really any science, however much it is applied, must remain fundamentally a pure science; that is, it must seek most of all to know and understand.
— from Psychology: A Study Of Mental Life by Robert Sessions Woodworth

I was dancing with Lord Holmeskirk, with whom, indeed, I danced more perhaps than with any one else, and we were speaking of my leaving on the following day, and he remarked almost seriously how much I should be missed, to which I replied with laughing disbelief.
— from A Search For A Secret: A Novel. Vol. 1 by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty