So, covered in later years by a curtain, the effigy remained until a day arrived in quite recent times, when the family then in possession were giving a dance, and for some reason had the case containing the wax-work carried downstairs and put in an outhouse.
— from Stranger Than Fiction: Being Tales from the Byways of Ghosts and Folk-lore by Mary L. Lewes

He was a printer by profession, wrote for the Encyclopedia Brittannica , translated Buffon , and conducted the Edinburgh Review and Magazine .
— from The Every Day Book of History and Chronology Embracing the Anniversaries of Memorable Persons and Events in Every Period and State of the World, from the Creation to the Present Time by Joel Munsell

During the intervals between the trips of the American line, the postages and freights must, of necessity, enure to the advantage of the British, and, consequently, the evil referred to has been but partially remedied." Speaking of the large steamers built, the Report says: "It is not to be supposed that engines of such vast dimensions could have been constructed in a country where there were, as yet, no workshops adapted to the purpose and where labor is very high, as cheaply as in a country where every appliance of the kind already existed and where the prices of labor are proverbially low.
— from Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean Post by Thomas Rainey

Lord Milner not only offered a compromise, but a compromise that enormously reduced the area of dispute.
— from Lord Milner's Work in South Africa From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902 by W. Basil (William Basil) Worsfold

Perhaps technological improvements bring both benefits and costs to existing rights holders—both of which should be considered when setting policy.
— from The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind by James Boyle

His blood burst from the body and colored the earth red in the upper part of the valley.
— from Legends of Ma-ui—a demi god of Polynesia, and of his mother Hina by W. D. (William Drake) Westervelt

In the early part of last year, the through business of the company was done below actual cost to every road that did it.
— from Report of the Committee Appointed to Investigate the Railroad Riots in July, 1877 Read in the Senate and House of Representatives May 23, 1878 by 1877 Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Committee Appointed to Investigate the Railroad Riots in July

Many years after the disease has been apparently cured the evil results frequently manifest themselves in the wife of the diseased or in his new-born children, and countless sicknesses of married women and children are due to the sexual diseases of husbands and fathers.
— from Woman and Socialism by August Bebel

After this success the army was embarked in flat-bottomed boats, and crossed the East River to York Island, and the King's Own were engaged in the movements by which General Washington was forced to abandon New York; which city was immediately taken possession of by the British.
— from Historical Record of the Fourth, or the King's Own, Regiment of Foot Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1680, and of Its Subsequent Services to 1839 by Richard Cannon