When it is too dark to see any other object, one can still see the white turnpikes of France and Italy; and they are clean enough to eat from, without a table-cloth.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

5½ inches Male with a bluish slate-colored head; eye ring white and completely encircling the eye; female with a saffron-colored head.
— from Bird Guide: Land Birds East of the Rockies, from Parrots to Bluebirds by Chester A. (Chester Albert) Reed

Religious publications are not as a class entitled to exemption from charge.
— from Canadian Postal Guide by Canada. Post Office Department

The job had been a capital excuse to ensure forgiveness for domestic short-comings.
— from The Woman's Part: A Record of Munitions Work by L. K. Yates

Most that is worth seeing here in pictorial art comes from the suppressed religious houses and churches, especially the early Flemish and German paintings, of which several are really fine.
— from Through Portugal by Martin A. S. (Martin Andrew Sharp) Hume

The husband’s appearance may explain to a certain extent the evident fear of the two women.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

Says the writer: "It is a common experience to enter from an absolutely barren schoolyard into a schoolroom decorated with botanical and natural history charts, and to find these charts and text-books are the only mediums used for teaching these branches of the natural sciences.
— from Birds and Nature, Vol. 08, No. 2, September 1900 Illustrated by Color Photography by Various

The author briefly and clearly explains the economic forces that determine the share of wealth that can be claimed by the various classes of the community, and argues that unless some remedy can be found the growth of land-rents will increasingly impoverish the people.
— from A Short History of English Liberalism by W. Lyon (Walter Lyon) Blease

She had been attracted to him by his thoroughly good-natured face, his noble, muscular figure, and certain exclamations that escaped from his lips during the speeches.
— from Sevenoaks: A Story of Today by J. G. (Josiah Gilbert) Holland

It is also cited as completely exonerating the English from the odium of having had any part in her horrid execution, since it shows that she was tried, condemned, and executed by the Inquisition—that the charges against her were purely and wholly ecclesiastical; that her trial was conducted in the pure ecclesiastical form, just as those of any other suspected sorcerer, witch, or heretic; and that in virtue of ecclesiastical laws she was sentenced and burned.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. VII, December 1850, Vol. II by Various

"Among the people who patronize hotels and restaurants there is a considerable element that, either for a week of frolic or during their lifelong holiday, are regardless of the value of their tips, and through their vanity enjoy throwing away a percentage of their ready money.
— from The Itching Palm: A Study of the Habit of Tipping in America by William R. (William Rufus) Scott