—The next year President Jefferson thought it best to learn all about this wonderful addition to our territory, and so sent an expedition, under Captains Lewis and Clarke, to explore it.
— from The Story of American History for Elementary Schools by Albert F. (Albert Franklin) Blaisdell

Thus, for instance, if nine in ten of the House of Commons, and a reasonable number of native temporal peers, should declare, that whoever received or uttered brass coin, except under certain limitations and securities, should be deemed as enemies to the King and the nation; I should think it a heinous sin in myself to act contrary to such a vote:
— from The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 06 The Drapier's Letters by Jonathan Swift

+Direction.+— Write these expressions, using capital letters and marks of punctuation where they belong: — 1. a fresh ruddy and beardless french youth replied 2. maj, cal, bu, p m, rev, no, hon, ft, w, e, oz, mr, n y, a b, mon, bbl, st 3. o father o father i cannot breathe here 4. ha ha that sounds well 5.
— from Higher Lessons in English: A work on English grammar and composition by Brainerd Kellogg

"Helloa!" called the lad, "Who are you?" A man answered in a clear voice: "This is a United States expedition under Captains Lewis and Clark, on its way to the Pacific Ocean.
— from Deerfoot in The Mountains by Edward Sylvester Ellis

Style enlarging upward; curved like a button-hook.
— from The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons

However, later in the year the Conservative party, conceiving a scheme for the establishment in London of an inspired Tory organ, cast its eye upon Charles Lever as a likely editor, and the novelist voyaged to England in order to discuss the project with Lord Lyndhurst.
— from Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I by Charles James Lever

Even a band of robbers cannot exist unless certain laws are respected as inviolable duties.
— from History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg

Once the unity of London assumed definite shapes, as it did in the new Central Authority representing the whole of London, Vestry self-government, except upon certain lines and within certain limitations, was doomed; for it would have to make way for a far larger system of self-government—the self-government of London by Londoners.
— from The Sanitary Evolution of London by Henry (Henry Lorenzo) Jephson

Shortly afterward General Graham was in an engagement under Colonel Lee, at Clapp's Mill, on the Alamance, and had two of his company killed, three wounded and two made prisoners.
— from Sketches of Western North Carolina, Historical and Biographical Illustrating Principally the Revolutionary Period of Mecklenburg, Rowan, Lincoln and Adjoining Counties, Accompanied with Miscellaneous Information, Much of It Never before Published by C. L. Hunter