A small gum creek to the south-south-east was first visited and left in disgust, and all the rocks and hills we searched, were equally destitute of water.
— from Australia Twice Traversed The Romance of Exploration, Being a Narrative Compiled from the Journals of Five Exploring Expeditions into and Through Central South Australia and Western Australia, from 1872 to 1876 by Ernest Giles

Every other house is a shop for the manufacture or sale of some of the Bethlehem specialties,—carvings in olive-wood and ivory and mother-of-pearl, crosses and crucifixes, and models of the Holy Sepulchre, and every sort of sacred trinket, and beads in endless variety; a little is done also in silver-work, especially in rings.
— from In the Levant Twenty Fifth Impression by Charles Dudley Warner

After the paint is thoroughly dry varnish with the best clear, hard varnish and let it dry again.
— from How to Become an Engineer by Frank W. Doughty

The last brilliant, dazzling beams of the dying day had lifted from the crest of the huge dome that shut the valley, and left it dark and sombre; and 'Tonio's eyes, turning upon it for the last time, seemed to note the change; and the flitting spirit, wandering back to the old, old boyish days, and the legends of his people, spoke once more.
— from Tonio, Son of the Sierras: A Story of the Apache War by Charles King

This, I see, is poetry"—he ran quickly and disparagingly through Maurice's little volume, and laid it down again.
— from Maurice Guest by Henry Handel Richardson