Others, of a like construction, as those of Richter ( a ), Tralles ( b ), and Gay-Lussac ( c ), have their stems so graduated as at once to indicate the proportion per cent.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I by Richard Vine Tuson

Several chaouses had entered, and, after loading Castello and the other runaways with chains, had led them forth to death.
— from The Pirate City: An Algerine Tale by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

The war to which the country's history and politics for half a century past had been leading had at last come and the only real question that remained to be settled was that of who should begin the actual fighting.
— from The History of the Confederate War, Its Causes and Its Conduct, Volume 1 (of 2) A Narrative and Critical History by George Cary Eggleston

There was a legend circulating among the older residents of the district as to the reason for his peculiarities.
— from The Rider of Waroona by G. Firth Scott