Over each length of gold or silver wire small lengths of purl are laid at regular intervals, close enough just to leave room for the next stitch, the pieces of one row, alternating in position with those of the preceding one.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

Dúnay taliábut nga unus kay naglugdung ang lángit, A rainstorm is coming because the sky is heavily overcast.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The ordinance of secession was declared null and void; the existence of slavery prohibited; payment of the war debt forbidden; universal suffrage established, excepting only criminals; an election to ratify the Constitution and for the election of State officers, a Legislature, and Representatives in Congress, was ordered to be held on June 22d, and a large number of radical amendments adopted.
— from The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 2 by Jefferson Davis

Bell Weir, and the Picnic, as the island a little above Runnymede is called, are favourite resorts of holiday-makers, anglers among others; and no more delightful part of the river for rest and recreation, as well as for sport, can be found than in [Pg 176] the beautiful reaches which succeed one another as the stream winds, now this way, now that, between banks that never lose their charm of interest and variety.
— from Rivers of Great Britain. The Thames, from Source to Sea. Descriptive, Historical, Pictorial by Various

Did you gather from what he said that he was acting like a reporter in connection with the death of the President?
— from Warren Commission (15 of 26): Hearings Vol. XV (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

Beside the Portuguese fleets that followed each other at long and regular intervals, Christian commerce there was none, while Arabian trade was small in amount, and confined to certain narrow channels.
— from The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 by Various

No trait of Hester's noble purity Remains with guilty me, for I purloined Her precious diadem and like a rogue I cast that crown away, afraid to wear What would have been my dearest ornament.
— from The Scarlet Stigma: A Drama in Four Acts by James Edgar Smith

"My parents, Robert and Lucretia Anderson, resided in Carlow, County Carlow, Ireland, where, on the 12th of July, 1823, I was born.
— from The Women of Mormondom by Edward W. (Edward William) Tullidge

He snorted a little and rubbed imaginary cobwebs from his face; but soon lapsed again into a deep, snoring unconsciousness.
— from Boyhood in Norway: Stories of Boy-Life in the Land of the Midnight Sun by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen

— N. m. scopulorum is extremely variable in color but averages lighter and richer in color than N. m. fallax , and about the same as N. m. inopinata .
— from A New Subspecies of Wood Rat (Neotoma mexicana) from Colorado by Robert B. Finley

But at least as regards its constituted [xxviii] head, sitting in Parliament, his department should be, in the widest sense, to care for the physical necessities of human life .
— from Reports Relating to the Sanitary Condition of the City of London by John Simon

This has been developed in the chapter on Property and Liberty and receives interesting confirmation in the history of trade unions, which has been too often and too well told to make it necessary to repeat it here.
— from Twentieth Century Socialism: What It Is Not; What It Is: How It May Come by Edmond Kelly