The first general feature that meets our eye is the cultivation of arable on the open-field system: the land tilled is not parcelled up by enclosures, but lies open through the whole or the greater part of the year; the plot held and tilled by a single cultivator is not a compact piece, but is composed of strips strewn about in all parts of the village 399 fields and intermixed with patches or strips possessed by fellow villagers.
— from Villainage in England: Essays in English Mediaeval History by Paul Vinogradoff

Meanwhile the treaty for annexion, and also the treaty for the lease of Samana, had both expired by lapse of time March 29, 1870, while the treaty for annexion was rejected by solemn vote June 30, 1870,—so that no treaty remained even as apology for the illegitimate protection which had been continued at such cost to the country.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 19 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

The States- General had recourse to the usual expedient by which bad legislation on one side was countervailed by equally bad legislation on the other.
— from History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1608a by John Lothrop Motley

The best square in the city is disfigured, but every Bostonian looks on this building with gratification.
— from The Americans by Hugo Münsterberg

The extent of the Roman civilisation can be measured by the number of engraved stones enclosed in their settings or found apart, the majority of which must have been executed by lapidaries on the spot.
— from Jewellery by H. Clifford (Harold Clifford) Smith

To find the discharge for a higher or lower water-level, the change in the value of C corresponding to the change in R can be estimated by looking out the values of C in tables, and the discharge calculated by using the new values of C and R and the new sectional area, S remaining unaltered.
— from River and Canal Engineering, the characteristics of open flowing streams, and the principles and methods to be followed in dealing with them. by E. S. (Edward Skelton) Bellasis

Whatever may be my own shortcomings—and I fear that they have been enhanced by limitations of time and space, and through the effects of ill-health and sorrow—the contributions enumerated cannot but render the present edition of Dr. Scrivener's great work eminently useful to students.
— from A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I. by Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener

Browning, Elizabeth B. Lady of the Lake. Bryant.
— from Only One Love; or, Who Was the Heir by Charles Garvice

BY ERNEST BABELON, Librarian of the Department of Medals and Antiques in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.
— from Manual of Oriental Antiquities by Ernest Babelon

The States-General had recourse to the usual expedient by which bad legislation on one side was countervailed by equally bad legislation on the other.
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley