The funeral wailings of the natives during the day were not sufficient to fill the measure of uncanny noise; so at night—those wonderfully bright moonlight nights!—the dogs seemed to feel it incumbent upon them to take up the refrain, and they howled frightfully by the hour together.
— from Under the Southern Cross Or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands by Maturin Murray Ballou

The highest tide which is known occurs in the Bay of Fundy, which opens up to the south of the isthmus uniting Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
— from The Ocean World: Being a Description of the Sea and Its Living Inhabitants. by Louis Figuier

And first, let me relate the particulars concerning a trial in which I was engaged, and which I have deferred allusion to until now, so as not to entangle the thread of my narrative.
— from Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Complete by Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvroy, duc de

Use no sugar, and no allspice in the vinegar as it would tend to darken the onions.
— from The Hotel St. Francis Cook Book by Victor Hirtzler

Gaspard and I shall grant, grown more discreet, That danger paves the pathway to deceit; While you, Henri, Lucienne, Eloise, shall own That oft the unknown had best remain unknown; Nor strive as now, on Christmas-eve, to delve In goblin mysteries, while the clock strikes twelve.
— from Harper's Young People, December 21, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

This was carried to such excess, that Liutprand ordained "Tamen ipsum Morgengabe volumus, ut non sit amplius nisi quarta pars ejus substantia, qui ipsum Morgengabe dedit."
— from Notes and Queries, Number 47, September 21, 1850 by Various

He sat at his flat desk like a pagan image, never looked up, never said aye, no, or go to the devil when I stepped in and wished him "Good morning!"
— from The U-boat hunters by James B. (James Brendan) Connolly

“The highest tide which is known occurs in the Bay of Fundy, which opens up to the south of the isthmus uniting Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
— from The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 4 by Frederick Whymper