In some old-fashioned genuine plates, especially in some of the old New England plates, there may occur an exception to this rule, the shading of the letters being done by hand.
— from The Universal Counterfeit and Altered Bank Note Detector, at Sight by Henry C. Foote

In simple observation the only noticeable effect of this difference is that, whereas in the astronomical Telescope a stop or diaphragm can be inserted in the tube so as to cut off what is called the ragged edge of the field of view (which includes all the part not reached by full pencils of light from the object-glass), there is no means of remedying the corresponding defect in the Galilean Telescope.
— from Half-hours with the Telescope Being a Popular Guide to the Use of the Telescope as a Means of Amusement and Instruction. by Richard A. (Richard Anthony) Proctor

What is said of the oldest New England State?
— from The Boston School Atlas, Embracing a Compendium of Geography by B. Franklin (Benjamin Franklin) Edmands

If Dumas had chosen, he might have separated the dramatic meeting of the Four at Newcastle itself—and the intenser tale of their effort to save Charles, with its sequel of their own narrow escape from the Éclair felucca—by chapters, or a book, of adventures in France.
— from A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury