"At last we have a Room that satisfies every Craving of my Soul," said the Wife.
— from People You Know by George Ade

However, in two or three days it was followed by a second epistle, complaining of my silence, and appealing to the great sacrifices the writer had made in the interest of my cause, as giving her a right to my favorable attention.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 by Various

[82] That notions of such a loose, semi-philosophical nature should survive while the solid empirical content of medical science faded away, is characteristic of the decline of thought which culminated in the dark ages.
— from An encyclopedist of the dark ages: Isidore of Seville by Ernest Brehaut

"A small expansion chamber or muffler should [99] be provided between the engine and the outlet, in order to break up the violent pulsations and make the flow fairly constant.
— from The Library of Work and Play: Mechanics, Indoors and Out by Fred. T. (Frederick Thomas) Hodgson