Although the Americans infuse into their legislation infinitely more general ideas than the English, and although they pay much more attention than the latter people to the adjustment of the practice of affairs to theory, no political bodies in the United States have ever shown so warm an attachment to general ideas as the Constituent Assembly and the Convention in France.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

I had tried this upon several hundred English soldiers, who never refused it, but, on the contrary, did not like to return to the old system of diets.
— from Soyer's Culinary Campaign: Being Historical Reminiscences of the Late War. With The Plain Art of Cookery for Military and Civil Institutions by Alexis Soyer

[152] Such are the main stipulations of the celebrated Clayton-Bulwer treaty, which remained in force until 1901, and which during that period probably called forth more discussion than any treaty which the United States had ever signed.
— from The United States and Latin America by John Holladay Latané

Headlong we dived into one of the most interesting phases of life the United States has ever seen.
— from Margaret Sanger: an autobiography. by Margaret Sanger

The sections of the law particularly alluded to, are the twenty-fourth, in these words, "and be it further enacted, that the district courts of the United States, in and for the districts of Tennessee and Kentucky, shall be and are hereby abolished," and the twenty-seventh, in these words, "and be it further enacted, that the circuit courts of the United States, heretofore established, shall cease and be abolished."
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 2 (of 16) by United States. Congress

In apyretic cases, 16 ♏ (1 cubic centimetre) every other day for 10 days, then daily for 10 days, and 30 ♏ twice a day thereafter until sweats have entirely subsided, when 16 ♏ are injected for a month every other day, and finally once a week for a year.
— from Merck's 1899 Manual of the Materia Medica by Merck & Co.

Norah found herself looking up into a face that at the first glance she thought one of the ugliest she had ever seen.
— from Captain Jim by Mary Grant Bruce

Already by this time Columbus's bold venture into the unknown seas had encouraged similar boldness in others, and instead of coasting down the whole extent of the western coast of Africa, Da Gama steered direct for Cape Verde Islands, and thence out into the ocean, till he reached the Bay of St. Helena, a little to the north of the Cape of Good Hope.
— from The Story of Geographical Discovery: How the World Became Known by Joseph Jacobs

If the skeptic shall say that the prophecy was published to the world long after the freedom of the American colonies and the independence of this government were attained, we call attention to the fact that slavery has been abolished in this land since then, and that no nation which has made war with the United States has ever succeeded, and never will, unless the inhabitants of this land shall become overwhelmed in iniquity and abominations.
— from Cowley's Talks on Doctrine by Matthias F. Cowley