Do not attempt to read it, François, for it can be read only by wetting the finger and turning over each leaf, and this takes time and trouble."
— from Marguerite de Valois by Alexandre Dumas

The other rolled over and over, and then, recovering its feet, followed its companion, Mr. Goodenough firing his second barrel after him.
— from By Sheer Pluck: A Tale of the Ashanti War by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

from the 1st of January, 1784, which was stipulated by a resolution in February following, in common with the interest due to all the foreign officers, to be paid annually at Paris; that in May, 1792, moneys were granted by Congress to discharge the principal and interest of these debts, at which time it was supposed that all the officers had received their interest to the 1st of January, 1789; but it now appears by the [Pg 193] banker's account at Paris, that no interest had been received by General Kosciusko for four years, viz.: from 1785 to 1788.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 2 (of 16) by United States. Congress

Etchingham, the station next Robertsbridge, is famous for its church windows, and its brasses to the Etchinghams of the past, an illustrious race of Sussex barons.
— from Highways and Byways in Sussex by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas