In the one under consideration, a number of incidents are recited, and facts presented, which will be found not only exceedingly interesting and instructive to boys and girls, but will give even adult minds some idea of the romantic East.
— from Rollo in Geneva by Jacob Abbott

The New Brunswick oligarchy were somewhat less besotted and tyrannical than were those of Upper Canada and Nova Scotia, but there were abuses which called imperatively for removal, and grievous wrongs which cried aloud for redress.
— from The Canadian Portrait Gallery - Volume 3 (of 4) by John Charles Dent

To see again after long absence the features of a face once dear, perhaps beloved, to recognise them, and not recognise them, as though across the old, unforgotten countenance a new one, like, but strange, were looking out at one; instantaneously, almost unconsciously, to note the traces time has laid upon it;—all this is rather melancholy.
— from The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Stories by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

There are thousands of unburied corpses accusing Napoleon as their murderer!
— from Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

Or have they originated under causes as natural as reproduction and birth, and no more so, by the variation and change of preceding into succeeding species?
— from Darwiniana; Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism by Asa Gray

Sprinkle bread-crumbs and grated cheese on top, and send to the oven until colored a nice brown.
— from French Dishes for American Tables by Caron, Pierre, active 1886-1899

I am not aware that any successful reply has ever been given to this objection, until chemistry and natural history taught us the true nature of bodily identity; and until recently the objector has felt sure that he had triumphed.
— from The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Edward Hitchcock

Dere wus twenty-two o' us chilluns, an' natu'ally Marster Sam Davis laked my mammy an' daddy.
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1 by United States. Work Projects Administration

A noble boy; a noble man; preserving, as has been said of him, "in a time of universal corruption, a nature sweet, pure, self-denying, and unaffected,"—he teaches us all, boys and men alike, a lesson of real manliness.
— from Historic Boys: Their Endeavours, Their Achievements, and Their Times by Elbridge S. (Elbridge Streeter) Brooks