The building exhibited recessed galleries on the north and south sides, and a flattish hipped roof.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

One remarkable instance of the former mode I noticed in my letter on the Perfect Societies of Insects [87] ; another may be cited, to which you may yourself be a witness—I allude to that common moth, vulgarly called the Ghost (Hepialus Humuli) , which lays a large number of minute black eggs, resembling grains of gunpowder, and ejects them so fast that, according to De Geer, they may be said to run from the oviduct, and are sometimes expelled with the force of a popgun [88] .
— from An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. 3 or Elements of the Natural History of the Insects by William Kirby

The four or five eggs vary considerably both in form and colour, the tints being either reddish, greyish, or blueish white, spotted, mottled, or streaked with a darker shade.
— from Cassell's Book of Birds, Volume 2 (of 4) by Alfred Edmund Brehm

An old Arab , Punch's, re Kaiser , Proportional Representation rejected , Punch's Cartoons and the Kölnische Zeitung, Correspondents, i , ii Queen Elizabeth , H.M.S., attacks in Dardanelles , Queries, futile, to wounded soldiers , Queues Disappear , For various commodities , "Queue War," Rabbit, the elusive , Raids by sea , Rasputin, sinister figure of , Rationing, compulsory, i , ii Rawlinson, General , Realisation, Reconstruction , Recruit who took to it kindly , Recruiting, posters to aid , Redmond, Major William Falls in Flanders , Makes thrilling speech , Tribute to, in Commons , Redmond, Mr. John, death of , Reichstag not blind to facts , Rejuvenating effect of Zeppelins , Reprisals on German cities advocated , Repudiation, the, Return of the Mock Turtle-Dove , Reunited , Reventlow, Count, and the Kaiser , Reward of Kultur, the, Rheims Cathedral bombarded , Rhine, British Army's watch on the , Rhondda, Lord Appointed Food Controller , Death of , Richter, Dr. Hans, clamours for British extinction , Riga, Gulf of, German defeat in , Riga occupied by Germans , Rivers, French, find their voices , Roberts, Mr., Minister of Labour , Roberts, Lord Death of , Germans pay tribute to , His reticence , Robertson, Sir William Accepts Eastern Command at home , Appointed Chief of Staff , Displaced , Robinson, Lieutenant, brings down Zeppelin , Roosevelt, Mr., invents new invective , Roumania joins Allies , Royal Family, British, fine example of , Royal Flying Corps , Great losses of , Running amok, Rupprecht, Crown Prince, entertains journalists , Russia Army retreats , Bolshevist coup d'état.
— from Mr. Punch's History of the Great War by Charles L. (Charles Larcom) Graves

Beyond all question, I think, the first watchers of the skies (they can scarcely be called astronomers) would have taken advantage of imagined similarity, more or less close, between each remarkable group of stars and some known object, to identify the group, and to obtain a name by which to speak of it.
— from Flowers of the Sky by Richard A. (Richard Anthony) Proctor

In truth the only life in her is centred in the market-place outside the walls, where big expanding Rabat goes on certain days to provision herself.
— from In Morocco by Edith Wharton

But, believe me, no people's government at any time in the future, whether it be English, Russian, German, or American, will ever dare to suggest or even to dream of a war of aggression or revenge.
— from The Great Prince Shan by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

He will cause the corporals of the old and new reliefs to verify together, immediately before each relief goes on post, the number of prisoners who should then properly be at the guardhouse.
— from Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition by James A. (James Alfred) Moss

New spending authority has been held below expenditures, reducing government obligations accumulated over the years.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents