Testimony of this kind about a book which for years appeared regularly upon booksellers’ lists enables us to realize that the average intelligent child of the year eighteen hundred was beginning to be as bored by some of the literature placed in his hands as a child would be one hundred years later.
— from Forgotten Books of the American Nursery A History of the Development of the American Story-Book by Rosalie Vrylina Halsey

There was a slight current, and the waters lay in broad reaches, under banks less elevated above the bed than those of the Darling.
— from Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia, in Search of a Route from Sydney to the Gulf of Carpentaria (1848) by T. L. (Thomas Livingstone) Mitchell

Besides the American railroads using Baldwin locomotives, engines built in this plant are in use in many foreign lands.
— from Great Cities of the United States Historical, Descriptive, Commercial, Industrial by Stephen Elliott Kramer