Van Helsing sits in my study poring over the record prepared by the Harkers; he seems to think that by accurate knowledge of all details he will light upon some clue.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

The city of Ikshwaku and Rama, on the Sarju; Indraprastha, Mathura, Surpura, Prayag on the Yamuna; Hastinapura, Kanyakubja, Rajagriha on the Ganges; Maheswar on the Nerbudda; Aror on the Indus; and Kusasthali 54 Dwarka on the shore of the Indian Ocean.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

Consider the simplicity, I may say plainness, of the following simile, and how differently we should in all probability deal with it at the present day: Quale i fioretti dal notturno gelo
— from The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 1 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I remember, soon after he was born, going to see a woman friend with a seven-year-old boy, and actually letting her see in my silly pride of juvenility that I thought her so old because her boy was seven; and now my boy, that I am waiting for here to-night, is twenty—and yet I do not feel myself old.
— from Boy of My Heart by Marie Connor Leighton

153. See also Chiefs Chiefs daughter, ceremonies observed by her at puberty, x. 30, 43 —— head not to be touched, i. 344 Chiefs, sorcerers regarded as, in New Guinea, i. 337 sq. ; in Melanesia, supernatural power of, i. 338 sqq.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 12 of 12) by James George Frazer