A prominent political leader, anxious to gather spoils, went to a certain police lieutenant on the North side, and said to him: “Well, we’re going to start something up this way.”
— from The Vice Bondage of a Great City; or, the Wickedest City in the World by Robert O. Harland

And the average cost, per letter, of transportation in all the mails of the kingdom, did not differ materially from this.
— from Cheap Postage by Joshua Leavitt

During my walk down there, my guide had mentioned that a certain person living opposite the place where the canoe was owned had several horses that he would like to sell.
— from Famous Adventures and Prison Escapes of the Civil War by Basil Wilson Duke

The original extent of the temple appears to have included only that part of the lower town, which lies between the modern streets of the Corso and the Borgo, and the ancient city principally lay on the side towards the citadel.
— from Old Rome: A Handbook to the Ruins of the City and the Campagna by Robert Burn

He read widely, more widely perhaps than any contemporary political leader of the first rank except Woodrow Wilson, in the literature of Western political science.
— from The Political Doctrines of Sun Yat-sen: An Exposition of the San Min Chu I by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger