Not he who, all her sacred trusts betraying, Is scourging back to slavery's hell of pain The swarthy Kossuths of our land again!
— from Personal Poems I Part 1 from Volume IV of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier by John Greenleaf Whittier

[Pg 66] NAMES OF STREETS, ETC. Names, of course, of some kind or other, local, personal, or traditionary, must have been very early used in the settlement, to designate places, paths, and business, as well as persons and things, and most of these have been preserved and remembered.
— from Curiosities of History: Boston, September Seventeenth, 1630-1880 by William W. (William Willder) Wheildon

The fact is, my friends, that madame has a young brother—Count Maximilian de Montmorenci—at school in England, and what she knows of our language she has mainly acquired from him.
— from Lippincott's Magazine, December, 1885 by Various

The circumference of the town by the quays does not exceed six kilometres or one league and a half.
— from Rouen, Its History and Monuments A Guide to Strangers by Théodore Licquet

We are at our own firesides so seldom and for such short periods that we scarcely know our own little ones.
— from On the Firing Line in Education by Adoniram Judson Ladd

Let me add that, just as a knowledge of his family failings will help one man in economising his estate, or warn another to shun for his health the pleasures of the table, so some knowledge of our lineage in letters may put us, as Englishmen, on the watch for certain national defects (for such we have), on our guard against certain sins which too easily beset us.
— from On the Art of Writing Lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge 1913-1914 by Arthur Quiller-Couch

Indeed, the different kinds of work afforded by the re-arrangements and improvements on an estate prove of great value in asylum administration, for they afford some of the simplest kinds of outdoor labour.
— from Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles by Daniel Hack Tuke