They've seen him under steel and fire, and know where he's led them."
— from What Answer? by Anna E. (Anna Elizabeth) Dickinson

'Gien I cud see 't, I cud tell; but I'm thinkin it'll be some gait gey and far awa?' 'Ay, it 's far, far.—It wud tak a body—lat me see—maybe half a year to trevel there upo' 's ain fit,' answered Kirsty, after some meditation.
— from Heather and Snow by George MacDonald

After C. V. Riley. Reduviidæ of the United States (Adapted from a key given by Fracker). a. Ocelli none; wings and hemelytra always present in the adults; no discodial areole in the corium near the apex of the clavus.
— from Handbook of Medical Entomology by O. A. (Oskar Augustus) Johannsen

My idea of my persistent self is essentially a collective image representing a relatively unchanging material object, endowed with unchanging sensibilities and forming a kind of support for permanent higher mental attributes.
— from Illusions: A Psychological Study by James Sully

What examples of triumphal arches in the United States and France are known to you?
— from Early European History by Hutton Webster

When this boy, this first white male child born there, came along, the question of sovereignty in Oregon was not settled between Great Britain and the United States, as far as known to the people of Oregon, though, as a matter of fact, it had been settled three and a half months before.
— from The Washington Historical Quarterly, Volume V, 1914 by Various