Still I consoled myself with the reflection that the tide of ill luck would not run against me forever, and so determined to make a bold push for information at the rout of that bewitching little angel, the graceful Mrs. Pirouette.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

In Edward the First's time some of the cases remind of the barbarian laws at their rudest stage.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

In its present condition the ruin consists of two distinct parts—a lower part, comprising a large cluster of rooms on the bottom land against the vertical cliff, and an upper part which was much smaller and occupied a cave directly over the lower portion and was separated 105 png 316 from it only by some 35 feet of vertical cliff.
— from The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-95, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 73-198 by Cosmos Mindeleff

He was not yet sixteen years of age when he communicated a paper on Light to the Royal Society of London, which was printed in their transactions; and before he was twenty he had written discussions of the higher geometry, which, appearing in the same repository of the best learning, attracted the general attention of European scholars.
— from International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 by Various

Prolific strikes on the Niagara tract, in the rear of the Benninghoff lands, added to the wealth of Phillips Brothers.
— from Sketches in Crude-oil Some accidents and incidents of the petroleum development in all parts of the globe by John J. (John James) McLaurin

CHAPTER XI THE PENAL LAWS Burke, /The Irish Priests in the Penal Times (1660-1760)/, 1914 (a valuable book, based on the State Papers preserved in the Record Office, the Bodleian Library and the British Museum).
— from History of the Catholic Church from the Renaissance to the French Revolution — Volume 2 by James MacCaffrey

A couple of hours later found us at Amsterdam, where representatives of the British Legation at The Hague and the local Consulate-General were on hand to greet Sir Edward Goschen's party and furnish us with the first news of actual war operations which we had had.
— from The Assault: Germany Before the Outbreak and England in War-Time by Frederic William Wile

But about the time of the equinoctial a great gale came out of the south so strongly that the water rose in the river over the boat landing; and the roof was torn from one of the curing-sheds.
— from Richard Carvel — Volume 02 by Winston Churchill

We remained on the beach looking at the ship till "——o'er her bow the rustling cable rung, The sails were furl'd; and anchoring round she swung."
— from Pencil Sketches; or, Outlines of Character and Manners by Eliza Leslie

The roof of the barn leaked, and they had to move from one spot to another, to keep out of the drippings.
— from Joe the Hotel Boy; Or, Winning out by Pluck by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

While Hiawatha was groping in the hollow trunk, the mischief-maker once more took his human shape and sped away until he came to the sandstone rocks overlooking the Big Lake; and the Old Man of the Mountain opened his rocky doorway and gave Pau-Puk-Keewis shelter.
— from The Children's Longfellow Told in Prose by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Since the running of the boundary line after the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo (1848) up to 1886, one outbreak after another characterized our relations with the Apache.
— from Gregg's Commerce of the Prairies, 1831-1839, part 2 by Josiah Gregg