Some 150 locomotives are constantly at work on these temporary lines, and the coal consumed by them, and by the steam navvies, steam cranes, pumping engines, etc., is equivalent to about two train loads every day.
— from Discoveries and Inventions of the Nineteenth Century by Robert Routledge

226 When we consider the small area of the earth's surface hitherto explored geologically, and the new discoveries brought to light daily, even in the environs of great European capitals, we must feel that it would be rash to assume that the Lower Eocene deposits mark the era of the first creation of quadrumana.
— from Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

Mackaye was the protégé of Tom Taylor, and the then leading English dramatist made a new acting version of Shakespeare's masterpiece for his behoof.
— from Ellen Terry and Her Sisters by T. Edgar (Thomas Edgar) Pemberton