2. The New American Cyclopedia tells us, "Apollonius labored for the purity of Paganism, and to sustain its tottering edifice against the assaults of the Christians."
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

Once a day three negro guards, heavily armed, appeared and cast to us a little dodowa , or kind of cake made of vegetables, with as little ceremony as if they were giving food to dogs, while a slave filled our earthen vessel with water; but we had no exercise, and were compelled to remain behind our bars like animals entrapped.
— from The Eye of Istar: A Romance of the Land of No Return by William Le Queux

Amherst Island, which is some miles in extent, stands between Ontario and the Bay of Quinte, its upper and lower extremity forming the two straits that are called the Upper and Lower Gap, and the least breeze, which is not perceptible in the other portions of the bay, is felt here.
— from Life in the Clearings versus the Bush by Susanna Moodie

Soak 3 cups of dried apples over night; drain the water off and cut them up a little and put them over the fire with 2 cups of molasses; boil until thick; take off the fire and put into a bowl.
— from 365 Luncheon Dishes: A Luncheon Dish for Every Day in the Year by Anonymous

And unstrap the keyboards from the VDTs in the first place—which sounds insultingly elementary, except that I’ve heard of an absentminded company that, until a labor dispute, had forgotten to do so.
— from The Silicon Jungle by David H. Rothman

Smaltz took this occasion to ostentatiously inspect a confection the upper and lower crusts of which stuck together like two pieces of adhesive plaster.
— from The Man from the Bitter Roots by Caroline Lockhart

Henceforth that Northern region of gloom, called the "place of the death and revival of Adonis," that Caucasus whose summit was so lofty, that, like the Indian Meru, it seemed to be both the goal and commencement of the Sun's career, became to Greek imaginations the final bourne of all things, the abode of Winter and desolation, the pinnacle of the arch connecting the upper and lower world, and consequently the appropriate place for the banishment of Prometheus.
— from Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike

The masses of buildings, the wharves on both sides, especially from Woolwich upwards, the countless ships along both shores, crowding ever closer and closer together, until, at last, only a narrow passage remains in the middle of the river, a passage through which hundreds of steamers shoot by one another; all this is so vast, so impressive, that a man cannot collect himself, but is lost in the marvel of England’s greatness before he sets foot upon English soil.
— from The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892 by Friedrich Engels

The mammoth, endowed with an elastic constitution, was able to endure the severity of an arctic climate in Siberia and North America, and the temperature of the latitude of Rome and the Gulf of Mexico, 264 and consequently tells us as little of the pleistocene climate as the panther, fox, or wolf.
— from Cave Hunting Researches on the evidence of caves respecting the early inhabitants of Europe by William Boyd Dawkins

Children should be fed carefully, and but a small quantity at a time, being particular both for adults and children to use as little liquid as possible; drink water in small quantities, not very cold.
— from An Epitome of the Homeopathic Healing Art Containing the New Discoveries and Improvements to the Present Time by B. L. (Benjamin L.) Hill