Upon some absurd first principle of his, Hill had never "wasted time" Upon poetry, and it seemed an appalling deficiency to her.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Across the under side are fastened parallel bars with spaces (shown black) left between them.
— from How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Archibald Williams

Adjectives are compared by using suffixes as follows: Positive Comparative Superlative clārus, -a, -um ( bright ) ( Base clār- ) clārior, clārīus ( brighter ) clārissimus, -a, -um ( brightest ) brevis, breve ( short ) ( Base brev- ) brevior, brevius ( shorter ) brevissimus, -a, -um ( shortest ) vēlōx ( swift ) ( Base veloc- ) vēlōcior, vēlōcius ( swifter ) vēlōcissimus, -a, -um ( swiftest ) a.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Adjectives are compared by using suffixes as follows: Positive Comparative Superlative clârus, -a, -um ( bright ) (Base clâr- ) clârior, clârîus ( brighter ) clârissimus, -a, -um ( brightest ) brevis, breve ( short ) (Base brev- ) brevior, brevius ( shorter ) brevissimus, -a, -um ( shortest ) vêlôx ( swift ) (Base veloc- ) vêlôcior, vêlôcius ( swifter ) vêlôcissimus, -a, -um ( swiftest ) a.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

The methods by which our ministers are selected, take possession of their offices, and are presented at foreign courts, are described in Curtis, The United States and Foreign Powers, 15-21.
— from Our Government: Local, State, and National: Idaho Edition by James Alton James

Nothing daunted, the indignant divine stumped resolutely up stairs, and found poor Sally Nutter, to whose room he was joyfully admitted by honest Betty, who knew his soft honest brogue in a panic, the violence of which had almost superseded her grief.
— from The House by the Church-Yard by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

United States and foreign postmarks, for stamps.
— from Harper's Young People, March 8, 1881 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

There would have been no room to keep such a mass of papers in the White House, and they would have been out of place there, as they related to the business of the several cabinet officers, and yet upon this miserable basis was the “Covode investigation” erected, and the first attempt ever made to soil a spotless public life, extending over more than forty years in every exalted station of our Government, as member of the legislature of Pennsylvania, many years member of the House of Representatives, Senator of the United States, twice diplomatic representative of the nation at the two principal courts of Europe, Secretary of State of the United States, and finally President of the Republic.
— from Life of James Buchanan, Fifteenth President of the United States. v. 2 (of 2) by George Ticknor Curtis

To Great Britain, North America, the West India Islands, United States, and Foreign Ports, consisted of 284,526 casks of sugar, 716,545 gallons of rum, 5910 gallons of molasses, 160,510 pounds of cotton, 4 l. sterling worth of dyeing woods, and 48,000 l. worth of other miscellaneous articles, which together amounted to £592,596 9 0 table reorganised to improve readability Shipping Inwards, 1831.
— from Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume 2 (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day by Mrs. Lanaghan

When sons and daughters grow up sickly and feeble, parents commonly regard the event as a misfortune—as a visitation of Providence.
— from Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library by Herbert Spencer

We held the upper stairs, and Father Paul would have raised La Voulle behind them."
— from The King's Scapegoat by Hamilton Drummond

You came into this house two years ago—a romantic, sentimental, mawkish, spoiled child; weeping at every word which happened to jar upon your exquisite sensibilities; an unsophisticated simpleton; a fit prey for any bungler in deception; unformed in manner; womanish in feeling, and extravagant in expression.
— from Alone by Marion Harland

For an account of our consular service, a comparison with that of other nations, and a consideration of some of the weaknesses in our system, see Curtis, The United States and Foreign Powers, 28-30.
— from Our Government: Local, State, and National: Idaho Edition by James Alton James