The board was covered with an indescribable variety of roast and boiled, of fish, flesh, and fowl.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

14m. Page 169 The density of Saturn is less than that of water, and its velocity of rotation so great that centrifugal force antagonizes gravitation to such an extent that bodies weigh on it about the same as on the earth.
— from Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work by Henry White Warren

But it was neither the river nor trees that had drawn the little gasps from the two boys, it was an Indian village, or rather a great town, extending as far as they could see—and they saw far—on either side of the stream.
— from The Last of the Chiefs: A Story of the Great Sioux War by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

In conversing with an intelligent Vaudois on returning from the church, I found that a great deal of interest is excited in this Canton by the late conspiracy in Berne.
— from A Residence in France With an Excursion Up the Rhine, and a Second Visit to Switzerland by James Fenimore Cooper

The more important methods proposed are: a large supply of public baths; the daily flushing of the streets with an immense volume of river water; recreation piers; excursions to the seashore; temporary residence in the country, etc.
— from Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, February 1899 Volume LIV, No. 4, February 1899 by Various

Whether he wrote at Istamboul, Vienna, or Rome, Herrick had always the same tone of good society, and the same air of knowing every detail of the latest scandal.
— from Mohawks: A Novel. Volume 1 of 3 by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Of this much I am sure, that the Church as a whole has been engaged in a senseless conflict with science and progressive thought, that she has insisted upon the acceptance of facts which are in violation of reason and which have nothing to do with religion.
— from The Inside of the Cup — Complete by Winston Churchill

Thus the king, outleaping the limits of his law, Not reigning but raging, as youth did him entice, Wise and worthy persons from court did daily draw, Sage counsel set at nought, proud vaunters were in price, And roisters bear the rule, which wasted all in vice: Of riot and excess grew scarcity and lack, Of lacking came taxing, and so went wealth to rack.
— from Nineteen Centuries of Drink in England: A History by Richard Valpy French