To this end there are no yew or willow trees, nor any emblems of mourning.
— from The cremation of the dead considered from an aesthetic, sanitary, religious, historical, medico-legal, and economical standpoint by Hugo Erichsen

Its acquisition of the bankrupt West Shore Railroad in the eighties gave it two extra tracks across New York State that for a long time were carried on the company’s books as deadwood.
— from The Modern Railroad by Edward Hungerford

"To attempt to explain to a New Yorker why any one might prefer to live in any other place would be a difficult task."
— from A Modern Chronicle — Volume 05 by Winston Churchill

It would appear, then, that our pre-war naval policy did not contemplate that immediate and stringent sea pressure that would compel the enemy to action, nor yet the closest and most vigilant kind of watch that would have brought him to action in the promptest and most fatal manner when circumstances compelled him to come out.
— from The British Navy in Battle by Arthur Joseph Hungerford Pollen

Immediately after the victory at Brooklyn, dispositions were made by the enemy to attack New York, and a part of the fleet sailed round Long Island, and appeared in the Sound.
— from The Life of George Washington, Vol. 2 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States by John Marshall

It is the earlier of two mounds at a place called Bakun, in southwestern Iran; the results of the excavations there are not yet published and we only know of its coarse and primitive pottery.
— from Prehistoric Men by Robert J. (Robert John) Braidwood

There are times when you seem to be looking at me through eyes that are not your own.
— from Black is White by George Barr McCutcheon