"Oh, Em he'll be able to explain that all right," decided Steve cheerfully.
— from Gunsight Pass: How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a New West by William MacLeod Raine

We find ourselves quite enthusiastic over the work, and feel like saying to the accomplished authoress, 'Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.'"— Rev. Dr. Zabriskie, in Christian Intelligencer .
— from Carving and Serving by Mary J. (Mary Johnson) Lincoln

In the same way we derive from several general ideas of the same degree another general idea, and so on successively, step by step, always proceeding according to the natural order of things, by constant analysis, using expressive signs, as with mathematicians in passing from calculation by the fingers to calculation by numerals, and from this to calculation by letters, and who, calling upon the eyes to aid Reason, depict the inward analogy of quantities by the outward analogy of symbols.
— from The Ancient Regime by Hippolyte Taine

Yet in August the world was informed that Turkey had decided to accept in their entirety the Armenian reforms demanded by the Powers, and that the acceptance of these reforms was primarily due to the pressure brought to bear on the government by Sir Philip Currie, the British Ambassador, who communicated to the government a confidential note from Lord Salisbury to the effect that the Porte must accept the proposals of the powers unconditionally, or England would use sharper means than those adopted by Lord Rosebery to settle affairs in Armenia.
— from Bleeding Armenia: Its history and horrors under the curse of Islam by Augustus Warner Williams

The eyes, too, are rather deep set and impress one with the unfathomable depths of the dog's intelligence.
— from Landseer A collection of fifteen pictures and a portrait of the painter with introduction and interpretation by Estelle M. (Estelle May) Hurll

Thus, everywhere, through all realms, do the opposite principles of Rest and Motion depend upon and reciprocally empower each other.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

From the time of the discovery of Brazil the French had occasionally visited that coast, and about the year 1558 they attempted to establish themselves at Rio de Janeiro under Villegagnon, the same who had conveyed Mary Queen of Scots from Scotland to Brittany, eluding the vigilance of the English.
— from Spanish and Portuguese South America during the Colonial Period; Vol. 1 of 2 by Robert Grant Watson

He was soon on the elevated train and riding downtown.
— from The Missing Tin Box; Or, The Stolen Railroad Bonds by Edward Stratemeyer

The fire assumed such gigantic proportions, and moved with such rapidity before the wind, that even the Arkansas River did not check its path for a moment; it was carried as readily across as if the stream had not been in its way.
— from The Old Santa Fe Trail: The Story of a Great Highway by Henry Inman