Mr. Burch thinks that the silver ores will run from forty to eighty ounces, while in some spots the richness is very extraordinary.
— from A Report on Washington Territory by William Henry Ruffner

The following table shows the ratio in various European countries: During the years.
— from Woman and Socialism by August Bebel

XXI One sinks outright, no more to reappear; Some rise, and bounding with the billows go: Their course, with head uplifted, others steer; An arm, an unshod leg, those others show: Rogero, who the tempest will not fear, Springs upward to the surface from below; And little distant sees that rock, in vain Eschewed by him and his attendant train.
— from Orlando Furioso by Lodovico Ariosto

We have a striving after originality that ends in eccentricity: writers were steeped in the great poets of the Augustan age: men of comparatively small creative imagination, but, thanks to their education, possessed of great technical skill, they ran into violent extremes to avoid the charge of imitating the great predecessors whom they could not help but imitate; hence the obscurity of Persius—the disciple of Horace—and of Statins and Valerius Flaccus—the followers of Vergil.
— from Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Harold Edgeworth Butler

He felt his own dilating as she opened her throat and poured out a broad, sonorous stream of sound that resolved into Von ewiger Liebe by Brahms.
— from Visionaries by James Huneker