It was like any other seaman's chest on the outside, the initial “B” burned on the top of it with a hot iron, and the corners somewhat smashed and broken as by long, rough usage.
— from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

That it can do only by lifting up, that is by blowing out, the two elastic strips which close the end of the pipe.
— from Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son by John Mills

I do not need to state that the clarification of this question is of the utmost significance in judging the responsible persons, not only because of the Counts in the Indictment, but because of the terrible guilt in face of the German people, if the testimony given by this witness should be true.
— from Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremburg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946, Volume 7 by Various

Already the snow covered walks and the frozen fountains were in shadow; but beyond the irregular black boughs of the trees the sky was still suffused with the burning light of the sunset.
— from One Man in His Time by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

They inhabit both banks of the Tapajos, and can muster, it is said, 2000 fighting men.
— from The Andes and the Amazon; Or, Across the Continent of South America by James Orton

It was like any other seaman's chest on the outside, the initial "B" burned on the top of it with a hot iron, and the corners somewhat smashed and broken as by long, rough usage.
— from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

It was also decided that an enlarged vocabulary should be published by the International Bureau, but, owing to the action of the English delegates, the official vocabulary was not made compulsory at the meeting of the International Telegraph Conference in 1903, although artificial words were allowed if pronounceable in accordance with the usages of any one of the eight languages from which the ordinary code words might be selected.
— from The History of the British Post Office by Joseph Clarence Hemmeon