This was actually the answer given to an inquiry as to the reason for so large a part of the foreign policy of the United States depending on the counsel of a certain group of Jews—they were the men who knew, no one else knew so much, the officials chosen by the people had a right to select the most efficient and able counsel they could find.
— from The International Jew : The World's Foremost Problem by Anonymous

But taking the sons of the latter family as legitimate, which (whatever may have been the moral aspect of the case) they were undoubtedly in the eyes of the common law after the passing of the Act referred to, they existed concurrently with the undoubtedly senior descendants of the first marriage of John of Gaunt with Blanche of Lancaster, and it was necessary—whether they were legitimate or not—to distinguish the arms of the junior from the senior branch.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

My uncle sat down on the bottom step, yawned, and looked at the sky.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Glacier National Park [Montana] IMG [pg] H2 anchor Glacier NATIONAL PARK [ MONTANA ] American Section WATERTON-GLACIER INTERNATIONAL PEACE PARK United States Department of the Interior Harold L. Ickes, Secretary NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Arno B. Cammerer, Director IMG UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1937
— from Glacier National Park [Montana] by United States. Department of the Interior

I shall now endeavor briefly to trace the connection between these Mysteries and the institution of Freemasonry; and to do so, it will be necessary to enter upon some details of the constitution of those mystic assemblies.
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey

“Let us sit down on this log and look at them,” she said.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

whether ... or ob beauftragt oder nicht whether instructed or not ob geltend zu machen ist; daß whether to claim that ob sie benutzbar sind whether they are available ob solche Dokumente abzulehnen sind whether to refuse such documents ob solche Dokumente aufzunehmen sind whether to take up such documents oben top oben erwähnt herein before mentioned oben links top left
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

You all know, without my telling you, what sorrow it has cost me to remain so long under such deep obligations to such patient and generous friends; but the sharpest pang I suffer—by far the sharpest—is from the debt I owe to this noble young man here; and I have come to this place this morning especially to make the announcement that I have at last found a method whereby I can pay off all my debts!
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

Gettysburg National Military Park, Pennsylvania UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Stewart L. Udall, Secretary NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Conrad L. Wirth, Director HISTORICAL HANDBOOK NUMBER
— from Gettysburg National Military Park, Pennsylvania by Frederick Tilberg

Or set them to work, under skilled directors, on the French or the Belgian plan, at the intensive cultivation of vegetables.
— from Britain for the British by Robert Blatchford

Of course Ivanhoe fell back fainting again among the ninety-seven men-at-arms whom he had slain; and it was not until Wamba had applied a second, and uncommonly strong dose of the elixir that he came to life again.
— from Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray

Build a fort and choose up sides?” “Down on the flats by the road-side!”
— from The Woodcraft Girls in the City by Lillian Elizabeth Roy

With these localities in our mind, let us sit down on this "gowan'd brae," and run over the story of "The Gentle Shepherd," one of the most graphic
— from The Genius of Scotland; or, Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion by Robert Turnbull

A quarter of the space which custom has awarded to works styled the Serial Nature, has been assigned to the account of one passage in Pen's career, and it is manifest that the whole of his adventures cannot be treated at a similar length, unless some descendant of the chronicler of Pen's history should take up the pen at his decease, and continue the narrative for the successors of the present generation of readers.
— from The History of Pendennis by William Makepeace Thackeray