Here in this country now we are advancing at a pace that covers the centuries of the past in leaps of a hundred years in one.
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine
And as to newspapers, there they lie in heaps, their covers unbroken to this hour.
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
In a similar way my claim of being first to reach the North Pole will rest upon the data presented between the covers of this book.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook