Along the Caspian the steppe and desert sink gradually to the water-level, and the margins of the sea are so shallow that, except where extensive dredging works have been carried out, and long jetties constructed, ships have to discharge their cargoes into barges two or three miles from the shore.
— from Famous Men and Great Events of the Nineteenth Century by Charles Morris

With Doctor Hugh and Miss Trudy Wright, to say nothing of me, around to see to everything, what else do you expect but smooth sailing?"
— from Rosemary by Josephine Lawrence

Phipps sat on his bed for some time examining, with equal disgust, a collar he would have thought incredible for Sunday twenty-four hours before.
— from The Wheels of Chance: A Bicycling Idyll by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells