The stuffs were silk—thin, soft, delicate, clinging; and, as a rule, each piece a solid color: a splendid green, a splendid blue, a splendid yellow, a splendid purple, a splendid ruby, deep, and rich with smouldering fires—they swept continuously by in crowds and legions and multitudes, glowing, flashing, burning, radiant; and every five seconds came a burst of blinding red that made a body catch his breath, and filled his heart with joy.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

As a rule, English prefixes and suffixes are added only to English roots.
— from The Alberta Public School Speller Authorized by the Minister of Education for Alberta by Anonymous

But there she was, taking it all for granted, joining in the Magnificat with a roving eye, pleased as she would have been pleased at a circus; interrupting herself to talk to her neighbour; and
— from Lourdes by Robert Hugh Benson

The pterygoid has a rounded extension posteriorly and superiorly, so that the posterior portion of the upper border of the pterygoid sinus is convex, rather than nearly straight, as in arnuxii .
— from The Beaked Whales of the Family Ziphiidae An Account of the Beaked Whales of the Family Ziphiidae in the Collection of the United States Museum... by Frederick W. (Frederick William) True

The courtiers of Herod, garbed as Roman exquisites, perfumed and smiling, were addressing themselves to the man of Nazareth.
— from Tor, a Street Boy of Jerusalem by Florence Morse Kingsley

Chopped raw meat of almost any kind can be very quickly made into a savory dish by cooking it with water or with water and milk for a short time, then thickening with butter and flour, and adding different seasonings as relished, either pepper and salt alone, or onion juice, celery, or tomato.
— from Practical Suggestions for Mother and Housewife by Marion Mills Miller

Kovalevsky, Alexander , Russian embryologist, professor at St. Petersburg; studied and wrote on the Ascidians; b .
— from The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall

If the crop looks poor the manure is carefully applied round each plant, and sometimes if it is still very backward, when the water is around it, the manure is poured over it in a liquid state.
— from China by Blake, Henry Arthur, Sir

In 1616, he completed and prepared for the press a romance entitled Persiles and Sigismunda , of a grave character, written in imitation of the Ethiopics of Heliodorus; it was the work of many years, and is accounted by the Spaniards one of the purest specimens of Castilian writing.
— from The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

His frame had strengthened at the same time, and assumed the proportions of manhood; so that, instead of being the overgrown maypole that Narcisse used to sneer at, he was now broad-shouldered and robust, exceedingly powerful, and so well made that his height, upwards of six feet, was scarcely observed, except by comparison with the rest of the world.
— from The Chaplet of Pearls by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

On the other hand, severity regards the external infliction of punishment, so that accordingly it would seem rather to be opposed to clemency, which also regards external punishing, as stated above (A. 1).
— from Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint