The mother, while agreeing with the father's main proposition of the undesirability, nay, impossibility, of literature as a livelihood,--had not the great and successful Sir Walter himself described it as a good walking-stick, but a poor crutch; a stick applied, since its first application as an image, to the shoulders of how many generations of youthful genius,--was naturally more sympathetic towards her son's ambition, and encouraged it to the extent of helping from her housekeeping money the formation of his little library, even occasionally proving successful in winning sums of money from the father for the purchase of some book specially, as the young man would declare, necessary for his development.
— from Young Lives by Richard Le Gallienne

In these "tame stories" the heroes of the late revolutionary movements are held up now in one light, and now in another, with the most striking disregard of consistency.
— from The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 by Various

Unst, North, island of, lighthouse at, described, 181 . Ventilation for lighthouses, Professor Faraday’s system of, stated, 101 , 102 .
— from Lighthouses and Lightships A Descriptive and Historical Account of Their Mode of Construction and Organization by W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport) Adams

"I have, however," Ned said, "ventured to modify that plan, and have sent word to the governor that we shall not attack until noon, instead of landing at daybreak, as before arranged.
— from Under Drake's Flag: A Tale of the Spanish Main by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty