The pond near which these events transpired is now known as Lovewell’s Pond.
— from History of the Indians, of North and South America by Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) Goodrich

It was on the latter stream that I nearly killed a Limpkin.
— from Florida and the Game Water-Birds of the Atlantic Coast and the Lakes of the United States With a full account of the sporting along our sea-shores and inland waters, and remarks on breech-loaders and hammerless guns by Robert Barnwell Roosevelt

I am telling the strict truth when I say that I never kissed a lady until I married Lady Nelson, nor after till within this few days; though what harm there be in it I know not, if it be conducted in decent and not outrageous fashion.
— from The Admiral: A Romance of Nelson in the Year of the Nile by Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen

I think I never knew another lawyer who could so everlastingly ruin a man who undertook to misrepresent the truth.
— from Fifty Years of Public Service Personal Recollections of Shelby M. Cullom, Senior United States Senator from Illinois by Shelby M. (Shelby Moore) Cullom

I felt that I now knew a lot, too, and as I went away I determined to see Penny Wise at once, and report all I had learned.
— from The Man Who Fell Through the Earth by Carolyn Wells

Observing also that there is no known abrupt lateral mountain-range between 6 Deg. and 12 Deg. S., but that there is an elevated partition there, and that the southing and northing of the southeasters and northeasters probably cause a confluence of the two great atmospheric currents, he will perceive an accumulation of humidity on the flanks and crown of the partition, instead of, as elsewhere, opposite the Kalahari and Darfur, a deposition of the atmospheric moisture on the eastern slopes of the subtending ridges.
— from Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa by David Livingstone

Although I have seen it tried, I never knew a large collection of several hundred fowls succeed in a confined place .
— from The History of the Hen Fever. A Humorous Record by Geo. P. (George Pickering) Burnham

I was taken sick,” and the inebriate nodded knowingly at Leonard, who felt at liberty to laugh, too.
— from Driven from Home; Or, Carl Crawford's Experience by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

[38] This is now known as Lower Platte Cañon, and is traversed by the Wyoming branch of the Colorado and Southern Railway.—
— from Palmer's Journal of Travels Over the Rocky Mountains, 1845-1846 by Joel Palmer