South Audley Mansions looked exactly the same as usual.
— from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

“All my life long,” said Bernard Farrell slowly, “all my life everything that I have touched has turned to gold, and everyone I have loved,”—he paused, lingering on the word, and again Mollie shivered in sympathetic understanding—“everyone whom I have loved has died !”
— from The Fortunes of the Farrells by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

He meant only to stay at Margate long enough to attend the last melancholy office, which it was my poor father's express desire should be performed in whatever parish he died.
— from Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 02 by Thomas Moore

The rations were the same as those allowed to the ship’s company: a pound of very bad salt junk (beef), or of pork as salt as Mrs. Lot, execrable tea, sugar, and biscuit that was generally full of weevils, or well overrun with rats, or (in the hot climates) a choice retreat for the detestable cockroach.
— from A Middy's Recollections, 1853-1860 by Victor Alexander Montagu

Distance scarce any more lends enchantment to the view, for 'tis annihilated.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. III, No. XVII, October 1851 by Various

The station is a beautiful building of stone and marble, large enough to accommodate thirty thousand people at one time.
— from Great Cities of the United States Historical, Descriptive, Commercial, Industrial by Stephen Elliott Kramer

I said nought of this affair, as one might suppose, and made little excuse to Sexberga for leaving her.
— from King Olaf's Kinsman A Story of the Last Saxon Struggle against the Danes in the Days of Ironside and Cnut by Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler

[Pg 334] The almost continued prevalence of west winds upon both coasts of the German Ocean occasions a constant set of the currents of that sea to the east, and both for this reason and on account of the greater violence of storms from the former quarter, the English shores are much less exposed to invasion by the waves than those of the Netherlands and the provinces contiguous to them on the north.
— from Man and Nature; Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action by George P. (George Perkins) Marsh

The immense revenue of his territory, and the treasure the late count had amassed, as well as the revenue that the mines brought in, would have supported a much larger expenditure than even their tastes disposed them to enjoy.
— from Varney the Vampire; Or, the Feast of Blood by Thomas Preskett Prest

"Stop a moment," Lorand exclaimed, taking out his purse.
— from Debts of Honor by Mór Jókai

This custom survives in Syria, although much less extensively than in the past, and it is "the God of the whole earth" that is worshiped, and not the host of heaven.
— from The Syrian Christ by Abraham Mitrie Rihbany