His mind was not exactly a wide, broad, generalizing, and comprehensive mind, nor yet a versatile, quick, and subtle one, bounding here and there as emergencies demanded; but it was deep, enduring, strong, like a majestic machine running in deep iron grooves with heavy flanges on its wheels.
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete by Abraham Lincoln

170 The absurdity of the whole thing struck her more forcibly and she laughed again more merrily; Roy laughed too.
— from A Hardy Norseman by Edna Lyall

Amasa Martin Marysville Tyendinaga Hastings, S. R. James Kilmurry Mascouche Mascouche L’Assomption M. Delfausse Masham Masham Ottawa E. Trempe Maskinongé Maskinongé Maskinongé O. Masson Massawippi Hatley, West Stanstead Luther Abbott Matane Matane Rimouski L. N. Blais Mawcook Granby Shefford L. N. Hungerford Maxwell Osprey Grey Joseph Maxwell Mayfield Chinguacousy Peel Wm.
— from List of Post Offices in Canada, with the Names of the Postmasters ... 1864 by Canada. Post Office Department

So, also, is this one, which does not seem to me to deserve oblivion, and certainly so long as my memory retains its power will have that little span of immortality: My Anna!
— from Penguin Persons & Peppermints by Walter Prichard Eaton

11. —Cast of erect tree ( Sigillaria ) in sandstone, standing on a small bed of coal, South Joggins, Nova Scotia (Dawson’s Acadian Geology ). or solution, leaving a mere mould representing its external form, and this may subsequently be filled with mineral matter, so as to produce a natural cast of the object.
— from The Chain of Life in Geological Time A Sketch of the Origin and Succession of Animals and Plants by Dawson, John William, Sir

The aborigines aver that, when night comes, from the bottomless depth of some lagoon a misshapen monster rises, dragging his loathsome length along the ooze.
— from Reviews by Oscar Wilde

“He didn't look old, and he didn't seem like a married man,” rejoined Addy thoughtfully.
— from Tales of the Argonauts by Bret Harte