Previously aliens could hold only personal property; they were incompetent to hold landed property, except under certain conditions of residence or Page 109 [109] business occupancy for a term of years not exceeding twenty-one.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

"Pardon me, that can be deferred," said Bazarov, catching hold of Paul Petrovitch, who was beginning to turn pale in the face.
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

"I don't see why it wouldn't be just as easy, or easier," he replied, "to cross here on pilings, practically the whole distance, as it would be to fill and bridge, too.
— from Then I'll Come Back to You by Larry Evans

Out of deference to the conventions and prejudices of their friends, or out of the reckless abandonment of young love, or merely out of a fear of hurting each other's feelings, young couples have often plunged prematurely into an unbroken intimacy which is even more disastrous to the permanency of marriage than the failure ever to reach a complete intimacy at all.
— from Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society by Havelock Ellis

Was it strange that, thinking of that lady-mother, who might any day come to claim her own, Patty protected the snowy beauty of her nurse-child with nankeen mitts, and sleeves, and wide-brimmed hat?
— from A Fair Mystery: The Story of a Coquette by Charlotte M. Brame

The Compleat Herbal of Physical Plants.
— from The Old English Herbals by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde

Of course, had our pocketbooks permitted, we would have used stout scantlings for the corner posts of our cave house and substantial boards for the walls, roof and flooring, but we had to be content with materials at hand.
— from The Scientific American Boy; Or, The Camp at Willow Clump Island by A. Russell (Alexander Russell) Bond

The cloven hoof of party preference appears in a few places.
— from Lectures on the French Revolution by Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron

THEY HELD A LEVEE in their chambers, hundreds of people passing up to see them, old men and youths, aged ladies and young maidens, and a more singular sight is seldom witnessed.
— from The Northfield Tragedy; or, the Robber's Raid A Thrilling Narrative; A history of the remarkable attempt to rob the bank at Northfield, Minnesota; the Cold-Blooded Murder of the Brave Cashier and an Inoffensive Citizen. The Slaying of Two of the Brigands. The Wonderful Robber Hunt and Capture Graphically Described. Biographies of the Victims, the Captors & the Notorious Younger and James Gang of Desperadoes by J. H. (Joseph Have) Hanson

C. Hall of Perfect Peace.
— from The Middle Kingdom, Volume 1 (of 2) A Survey of the Geography, Government, Literature, Social Life, Arts, and History of the Chinese Empire and its Inhabitants by S. Wells (Samuel Wells) Williams