But it was only the regular intervals between Everard’s snores in the silent parlour below.
— from Gabrielle of the Lagoon: A Romance of the South Seas by W. H. (William Henry) Myddleton

"Indications of the climate, contour, soil, and minerals, of the region inhabited by each society delineated, seemed to me needful.
— from Herbert Spencer by J. Arthur (John Arthur) Thomson

In former years the bone needle was the only means of carrying the thread, but this has now, except in the rarest instances, been entirely superseded by one of metal.
— from Ethnology of the Ungava District, Hudson Bay Territory Eleventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1889-1890, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1894, pages 159-350 by Lucien M. (Lucien McShan) Turner

I sought to revive it, but every spark was gone.
— from Wonders of the Yellowstone by James (Geologist) Richardson

It would indeed be a slow process, they thought, to move step by step in the Reformation, if between each step, a whole century was to intervene.
— from The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-66) by John Lothrop Motley

This sum was forwarded to the officers in command; who however not only refused to receive it; but even summoned the authors of the proceeding to take their trial before the Pan-Arcadian assembly,—the Ten Thousand at Megalopolis,—on the charge of breaking up the integrity of Arcadia.
— from History of Greece, Volume 10 (of 12) by George Grote

When cold enough to handle, form into small balls; press the thumb into the center of each; insert a little marmalade or jelly of any kind, and close the rice well over them; roll in beaten eggs (sweetened a little) and bread crumbs.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 05, December 1884, No. 3 by Chautauqua Institution