The grades of any part of the road hereafter to be constructed shall not exceed forty feet to the mile ascending eastward, and fifty feet to the mile ascending westward; and the limits of grade and curvature of said road, included within said location; and not graded, shall be such that the maximum resistance to the passage of trains, in either direction, shall not exceed the maximum resistance in the same direction on the [83] Fitchburg and Vermont and Massachusetts Railroads; and before any location made by the chief engineer of the Troy and Greenfield Railroad Company shall be filed, a copy of the alignment and a table of grades, verified by the oath of said engineer, shall be submitted to a state engineer appointed as hereinafter provided, who shall certify that the limits of grade and curvature herein before prescribed have not been exceeded, and the said table of grades so certified shall be filed with the location.
— from Report of the Hoosac Tunnel and Troy and Greenfield Railroad, by the Joint Standing Committee of 1866. by Tappan Wentworth

"I thought she looked a nice girl," said Mrs. Clarke.
— from A Pair of Schoolgirls: A Story of School Days by Angela Brazil

We are all right so long as nobody gets sick or wounded, if we manage to get a tussle with the niggers (and I am in great hopes that when we strike the path, we may just drop on to them coming up it).
— from The Matabele Campaign Being a Narrative of the Campaign in Suppressing the Native Rising in Matabeleland and Mashonaland, 1896 by Baden-Powell of Gilwell, Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, Baron

He's just back, remember, from two years in the jungle, and her eyes haven't [290] changed color and her hair still shines like a new gold shoulder-knot at dress parade.
— from Sonnie-Boy's People by James B. (James Brendan) Connolly