The mist was very thick about us--I could not see a yard beyond my nose; but we were now going down hill, so that I knew we had crossed the ridge of the island and were descending towards the harbour of New Grimsby and the house under Merchant's Rock.
— from The Watchers: A Novel by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason

Families, in the course of succession, fall into minorities; the inheritance comes into the hands of females; and very perplexed affairs are often delivered over into the hands of negligent guardians and faithless stewards.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

Many of those journals have been published (Cromot-Dubourg's only in an English version printed in America [2] ); others have been lost; others remain unpublished, so that after all that has been said, and well said, it still remains possible, with the help of new guides and new documents, to follow Washington and Rochambeau once more, and in a different company, during the momentous journey which led them from the Hudson to the York River.
— from With Americans of Past and Present Days by J. J. (Jean Jules) Jusserand

From a pool hidden in the lush grasses of a distant hollow came to him the twilight honking of nesting geese and the quacking content of wild ducks.
— from The Alaskan by James Oliver Curwood

They robbed some guests in the house of nineteen guineas, and some silver; and from Mrs. Graham they took bills to a large amount.
— from Recollections of Old Liverpool by James Stonehouse

In the first place, Salonika happened to be in the hands of neutral Greece, although that difficulty would probably have been got over readily enough then.
— from Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918 by Callwell, C. E. (Charles Edward), Sir

March 7. —For the first time in the world's history, for the first time in the history of nations governed and administered by positive, well established, well organised, well defined laws—powers, such as those conferred by Congress on Mr. Lincoln, have been so conferred.
— from Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 by De Gurowski, Adam G., count

If there is no moral defect in him, yet there is want of good taste, want of propriety, want of respect to the taste of others, violence offered to his own natural gifts and acquired abilities.
— from Talkers: With Illustrations by John Bate

With the help of National Guardsmen, and an organized body of students, Caussidière, the new police prefect, succeeded at last in keeping the mob out of the Hôtel de Ville and the Palais Bourbon.
— from A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year. Volume 2 (of 3) by Edwin Emerson

A little way below, the waters separated around an acreage of island that afforded protection for the homes of numerous gulls and fish ducks.
— from Trails and Tramps in Alaska and Newfoundland by William S. Thomas