At the same time small squadrons or single cruisers running out of port committed much havoc on English commerce; not, however, with impunity.
— from How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 by William Henry Giles Kingston

He has at times the primal gift of the poet—ecstasy; but to attain it he often wades through shallow, [Pg 30] ill-smelling sewers, scales arid hills, traverses dull drab levels where the slag covers rich ore, or plunges into subterrene pools of nocturnal abominations—veritable regions of the "mother of dead dogs."
— from Ivory, Apes and Peacocks by James Huneker

There are also mosques, mausoleums, and forts to be visited, all attractive, with some curious ruins of old palaces and Hindoo temples, to all of which we paid due attention, but a detailed account of which would hardly interest the general reader.
— from Due West; Or, Round the World in Ten Months by Maturin Murray Ballou

There being few towns in the cotton country, the shops, or stores, are frequently kept at some cross road, or other public place, in or adjacent to a rich district of plantations.
— from Fifty Years in Chains; or, the Life of an American Slave by Charles Ball

Jack M. Mohler James Sheldon Carey Roger O. Olmstead Peter Stanley Chrapliwy Robert Lewis Packard W. Kim Clark Robert Julian Russell Robert William Dickerman
— from Birds from Coahuila, Mexico by Emil K. Urban

In this revaluation the principle of greatest revenue is supposed to be the sole criterion, regardless of other personal or social points of view from which confessedly the measure might be considered.
— from Studies in Logical Theory by John Dewey

I walked into the sea at Gosport a couple of hours ago, but, getting caught in the strong current running out of Portsmouth Harbour, I was swept a great distance until I managed to regain my feet.
— from The Rival Submarines by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman