On getting up, you find an extensive plain, with great abundance of grass and trees, and copious springs of pure water running down through rocks and ravines.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

They are considered singular or plural, according to whether they refer to one or more persons.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

I take a clean sheet of paper, dip the pen into the ink, and write out the title: “The Past and Future of the Dog Licence.”
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

[72] The other recalls a still odder passage in THE SYNAGOGUE: or THE SHADOW OF THE TEMPLE, a connected series of poems in imitation of Herbert's TEMPLE, and, in some editions, annexed to it.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

" "Yes—it is surprising how many of the present tillers of the soil were once owners of it, and I sometimes wonder that a certain school of politicians don't make capital of the circumstance; but they don't seem to know it… I wonder that I did not see the resemblance of your name to d'Urberville, and trace the manifest corruption.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

Beyond that minimum, there should be voluntary examinations on all subjects, at which all who come up to a certain standard of proficiency might claim a certificate.
— from On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

“Ah! it fills me with pride to find that, thanks to a common sort of penetration with which I am endowed, I am approved by a man like you, fresh from the court.”
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

Take a circular slice of potato, place it on the table, and see into how large a number of pieces you can divide it with six cuts of a knife.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

I don’t know that I shall ever be ill-natured with old people—I hope not; there are certainly some old people I adore.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

These afford continual supplies of provisions and materials, of which part is afterwards wrought up into finished work and by which are replaced the provisions, materials, and finished work, continually withdrawn from the circulating capital.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

While I was trying to analyse it one of the gentlemen turned, and caught sight of poppa.
— from A Voyage of Consolation (being in the nature of a sequel to the experiences of 'An American girl in London') by Sara Jeannette Duncan

This, at first, as with fulminating gold at present, was a mere curiosity; it has recently caused the almost complete substitution of percussion for flint locks in fire-arms, which in addition to the greater certainty caused by the increased rapidity of the discharge, œconomises the quantity of powder requisite.
— from A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume 1 (of 2) by Johann Beckmann

All these are comparatively slaves, or people of vulgar business.
— from Evolution of Expression — Volume 1 by Charles Wesley Emerson

"From beneath a heap of torn and cancelled scraps of paper, he took one letter that remained entire.
— from The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by John Forster

It seemed, then, a comfortable sort of place.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 94, August, 1865 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

And let the water be brought into conjunction with ammonia and carbonic acid, and the three will, under certain conditions, give rise to protoplasm, which again, if subjected to a certain succession of processes, will rise by successive stages from protoplasm that gives no other signs of life than those of feeding and reproducing its kind, to protoplasm endowed with the power of
— from Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics With Some of Their Applications by William Thomas Thornton

A dull, listless troop they are, comparatively sombre of plumage, totally devoid of song, and apparently intent only upon the gratification of their appetites.
— from Life Histories of North American Wood Warblers, Part One and Part Two by Arthur Cleveland Bent