So still it lay that every day Crawled like a weed-clogged wave:
— from Poems, with The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde

Allowing reasonable time to coal in foreign ports and eliminating the time for target practice at Magdalena Bay and the various stops along the California coast, the trip could have been made easily at 10 knots steaming in less than eighty days.
— from With the Battle Fleet Cruise of the Sixteen Battleships of the United States Atlantic Fleet from Hampton Roads to the Golden Gate, December, 1907-May, 1908 by Franklin Matthews

About the same time the Duke of Wirtemberg paid a visit to London and saw the baiting at Paris Gardens: 'On the 1st of September his Highness was shown in London the English dogs, of which there were about 120, all kept in the same enclosure, but each in a separate kennel.
— from South London by Walter Besant

When saints beneath their Saviour’s eye, Filled with each other’s company, Shall spend in love the eternal day!” 6. Then said Greatheart to Mr. Valiant-for-truth, “Thou hast worthily behaved thyself; let me see thy sword.”
— from Bunyan Characters (2nd Series) by Alexander Whyte

72 This observation of the gradual displacement of [pg 037] the star in the calendar has been of the utmost importance for the progress of astronomy, since it led the Egyptians directly to the determination of the approximately true length of the solar year and thus laid the basis of our modern calendar; for the Julian calendar, which we owe to Caesar, was founded on the Egyptian theory, though not on the Egyptian practice.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 06 of 12) by James George Frazer

"Yes, we succeeded in locating the exact duplicate of your tapestry."
— from Trading Jeff and His Dog by Jim Kjelgaard

The announcement that he could encircle our sphere in less than eighty days would be too much for his equanimity, when he reflected that the voyage in the Elizabeth , from Plymouth back to Plymouth again, consumed nearly two years, and compelled him to cross the Equator no less than four times.
— from How to Travel Hints, Advice, and Suggestions to Travelers by Land and Sea all over the Globe. by Thomas Wallace Knox

They had been severe enough to start with; but now, after nearly forty-eight hours of neglect, their condition was so indescribably loathsome that even Dick, seasoned hand though he was, nearly vomited at the sight of them, while as for Grosvenor, he was compelled to beat a precipitate retreat, but returned gamely, some five minutes later, to see if he could be of any assistance.
— from The Adventures of Dick Maitland: A Tale of Unknown Africa by Harry Collingwood