He knew I was neither a Yankee nor a Mexican, and swore that for my sake every Canadian or Frenchman falling in their power should be treated as a friend.
— from Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet by Frederick Marryat

Among them was Professor Deusenberry, of the Squedunk Elementary College of Fine Fatheads.
— from Frank Merriwell's Triumph; Or, The Disappearance of Felicia by Burt L. Standish

‘I will see that you’re made professor of atmospheric nullity at the Squedunk Elementary College of Fine Fatheads.
— from Frank Merriwell's Triumph; Or, The Disappearance of Felicia by Burt L. Standish

Rub through a sieve enough canned or fresh fruit to make a cupful.
— from The Myrtle Reed Cook Book by Myrtle Reed

This computation includes the river and lakes as well as sundry tracts which can be inundated, and the whole space either cultivated or fit for cultivation is no more than about 5,626 square miles."
— from Man and Nature; Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action by George P. (George Perkins) Marsh

In this Theocritus and Virgil are admirable, and excellent, the others despicable, and to be pittied; for they being enfeebled by the meanes of their subject, either creep, or fall flat.
— from De Carmine Pastorali Prefixed to Thomas Creech's translation of the Idylliums of Theocritus (1684) by René Rapin