On the West Shore and Buffalo road its limit of grade is 30 feet to the mile going west and north, and 20 feet to the mile going east and south.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884 by Various

This Widow, he would have call'd the Church; and her only Son or masculine Offspring, he would have call'd the Spiritual Sense of the Scriptures, which is now dead, and that the Ministers of the Letter , who are his Bearers, are for interring him within the Earth of the Letter : But Jesus , upon his Spiritual Advent will put a stop to the Intention of such Bearers, by reviving the Spiritual Sense of the Scriptures; and by restoring it, like a quicken'd Son , to the Comfort of his Mother, the Church; who has been in a sorrowful and lamentable Condition upon the Death and Want of it:
— from Six Discourses on the Miracles of Our Saviour, and Defences of His Discourses by Thomas Woolston

With its broad main street and brick residences it looked like a great city to me.
— from Under Four Administrations, from Cleveland to Taft Recollections of Oscar S. Straus ... by Oscar S. (Oscar Solomon) Straus

If thou take the word of God for a lamp to thy feet, and it enter into thy soul, and be received in love and affection, it will certainly keep thee from the evil men's way, who have already left the righteous paths to walk in the ways of darkness, who rejoice in nothing so much as in the sorrows and miseries of the godly, and delight in one another's wickedness.
— from The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning