At the end of the first quarter of the century Alexander Ross was brought across the mountains and prairies by Governor George Simpson, and took up his abode on the banks of Red River, on what is now the site of the city of Winnipeg.
— from John Black, the Apostle of the Red River Or, How the Blue Banner Was Unfurled on Manitoba Prairies by George Bryce

"A handy bit of road repairing, Otto," was Ballard's comment.
— from The King of Arcadia by Francis Lynde

Some articles, like bales of rugs, rolls of wool, and large bundles of cloth, cannot be sterilized at the center by ordinary steam, and while it is not likely that infection at the centers of such tightly rolled bundles has occurred if exposure took place while rolled up, yet it is certain that the disinfection does not reach these centers.
— from Rural Hygiene by Henry N. (Henry Neely) Ogden

They differ from most of the big Mekong rapids in that they are caused by rough sloping bottoms of rock ridges, over which the water tears its way.
— from Notes of a Journey on the Upper Mekong, Siam by H. Warington (Herbert Warington) Smyth

They brought back to her, also, memories of rides of former days, before her father had been taken from her, when they had trotted politely over the tan bark of Rotten Row, or when, with her soldier brother, she had chased the wild cattle on the plantation.
— from The White Mice by Richard Harding Davis