[93] Now we Christians are fairly lenient as regards each other's customs, and still more so with regard to dress (judging by the garb we tolerate), while we have quite outgrown our old playful habits of boiling, burning, or torturing our fellow-men except on the battle-fields of civilised warfare.
— from Pan-Islam by G. Wyman (George Wyman) Bury

Gkak , gkak , gkak , at first loud and rapid, ending lower and slower.
— from Color Key to North American Birds with bibliographical appendix by Frank M. (Frank Michler) Chapman

In addition, Federal law and regulations establish special rules governing suspensions and expulsions of handicapped students. · States and local school districts may require additional procedures.
— from What Works: Schools Without Drugs by United States. Department of Education

Whether those able theologians were valued at their true worth may be gathered from a further description in which we learn that during the wildest days of the Restoration “the most learned and eloquent divine might fail to draw a fashionable audience, particularly if Buckingham had announced his intention of holding forth, for sometimes his Grace would enliven the dullness of the Sunday morning by addressing to the bevy of fine gentlemen and fine ladies a ribald exhortation which he called a sermon.”
— from The Horse in History by Basil Tozer

In the wild days of the Restoration, indeed, the most learned and eloquent divine might fail to draw a fashionable audience, particularly if Buckingham announced his intention of holding forth; for sometimes His Grace would enliven the dulness of a Sunday morning by addressing to the bevy of fine gentlemen and fine ladies a ribald exhortation which he called a sermon.
— from The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

All he had to do was to get together an estimate on additional furnace lines and radiators, electric wiring, plumbing, plastering, etc."
— from Murder at Bridge by Anne Austin

Last of all the maker cut a few limes, and running each section rapidly round the rim of his bowl, squeezed in enough of this more delicate acid to flavour the whole composition.
— from The Flowing Bowl A Treatise on Drinks of All Kinds and of All Periods, Interspersed with Sundry Anecdotes and Reminiscences by Edward Spencer

* * * * * * "It has gone out with a fresh load, and returned every hour; the comers have again disappeared as soon as landed; and now, the goers are gathering together.
— from Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Dorothy Wordsworth