Besides, the weekly bills themselves at that time evidently discover the truth; for, while there was no mention of the plague, and no increase after it had been mentioned, yet it was apparent that there was an increase of those distempers which bordered nearest upon it; for example, there were eight, twelve, seventeen of the spotted fever in a week, when there were none, or but very few, of the plague; whereas before, one, three, or four were the ordinary weekly numbers of that distemper.
— from A Journal of the Plague Year Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London by Daniel Defoe

Prof. Fries attempts to justify this strange method of treatment by the assertion that those expeditions did not seek the navigation of the Northeast passage, and did not undertake to sail a ship from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
— from Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen

Then we stopped again at every point of view to drink tea, and to taste every dish of cakes or other comestibles of which centuries of wayfarers had been in the habit of partaking before us.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

Ample evidence will be introduced later on to show beyond all doubt that all through the early difficulties, when the American people should have been frankly dealt with and given the facts, General Otis would, in the exercise of his military powers as press censor, always say to the war correspondents, “I will let nothing go that will hurt the Administration.”
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

The chiefs received them, and the two emissaries demanded that they raise the French flag.
— from Through the South Seas with Jack London by Martin Johnson

Besides, the weekly bills themselves at that time evidently discover this truth; for while there was no mention of the plague, and no increase after it had been mentioned, yet it was apparent that there was an increase of those distempers which bordered nearest upon it.
— from History of the Plague in London by Daniel Defoe

She gives the artistic touch to every detail of her work because she is an artist, a genuine, sincere artist in all that makes up life.
— from The Vitalized School by Francis B. (Francis Bail) Pearson

And even if mankind conceded the best of the argument to the English diplomatists, that diplomacy might seem worthless which could be blind to the colossal falsehoods growing daily before its eyes.
— from History of the United Netherlands, 1588a by John Lothrop Motley

The British Government desired to set up a stable regime there, and to this end decided to make a careful survey of the Island and its resources.
— from Boys' Book of Famous Soldiers by J. Walker (Joseph Walker) McSpadden

Frobisher attempted to add to these earlier discoveries by a voyage the next year, 1577, but he made exploration secondary to mining for gold, and not much was done.
— from Christopher Columbus and How He Received and Imparted the Spirit of Discovery by Justin Winsor

There was very little time for rest in this life of work between the Egyptian festivals, Eastern travel, and the terrible European disaster looming ahead, the crisis which culminated in the declaration of war between France and Germany in the June of the year following his return home.
— from George Alfred Henty: The Story of an Active Life by George Manville Fenn

"Selfish Ambition," a poem, by Nell Hilliard, is as correct and fluent in metre as we might expect from the author, though the expletive does in the final line of the first stanza is not to be commended.
— from Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 by H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft

In the early stages this disease not only has neurasthenic symptoms but is very responsive to treatment, and thus the early diagnosis is of great importance.
— from The Nervous Housewife by Abraham Myerson