Every wider and higher category 3 or stage of the system (for example a class, or an order) comprises a number of larger and stronger branches of the pedigree; every narrower and lower category (for example a genus, or a species) only a smaller and thinner group of twigs.
— from The History of Creation, Vol. 2 (of 2) Or the Development of the Earth and its Inhabitants by the Action of Natural Causes by Ernst Haeckel

The Italian town, San Columbano, still bears the name of the great Columbanus, a native of Leinster; and St. Gall, in Switzerland, still reminds us of his friend and disciple Gallus.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 14, October 1871-March 1872 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

Bottles and drinking cups and noggins of leather and sometimes of the thin hard shell of the gourd of horn.
— from Caudebec in America A Record of the Descendants of Jacques Caudebec 1700 to 1920 by William Louis Cuddeback

Just then Cora, without any warning of her approach, entered the room, carrying a number of letters and several newspapers.
— from Doris Force at Locked Gates; Or, Saving a Mysterious Fortune by Julia K. Duncan

It was said that the house contained a number of locked and shuttered rooms which were never entered; that Melrose slept by day, and worked or prowled by night; that his only servants were the two Dixons, no one else being able to endure his company; that he and the house were protected by savage dogs, and that his sole visitors were occasional strangers from the south, who arrived with black bags, and often departed pursued with objurgations by Melrose, and in terror of the dogs.
— from The Mating of Lydia by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.