Since the year 1846, the date of the conquest of New Mexico, a number of military reconnaissances, under the direction of the War Department, have been made in various parts of the Territory.
— from Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines by Lewis Henry Morgan

He got in wrong by trying to keep the price of fresh fish down locally, and the last year he lived the Crow Harbor cannery o nly made a normal profit.
— from Poor Man's Rock by Bertrand W. Sinclair

I believe that with patience and firmness on our part, and the being content with the cession of New Mexico and New California, paying therefor an ample indemnity in money, we shall get peace.
— from The Life of Isaac Ingalls Stevens, Volume 1 (of 2) by Hazard Stevens

The Controller-General of Prisons submitted a schedule showing that the number of prisoners detained under the Prisoners Detention Act from its commencement in 1916 to 1922 was twenty-eight, consisting of nineteen males and nine females.
— from Venereal Diseases in New Zealand (1922) Report of the Special Committee of the Board of Health appointed by the Hon. Minister of Health by New Zealand. Committee of the Board of Health

No doubt we can and do [pg 120] conceive transcendental unity after the analogy of the quantitative unity which is the principle of counting and measuring; and no doubt we can use the transcendental concept of “actually undivided being” as a principle of enumeration, and so “count” or “enumerate” spiritual beings; but this counting is only analogical; and many philosophers, following Aristotle and St. Thomas, hold that the concepts of numerical multiplicity and numerical distinction are not properly applicable to immaterial beings, that these latter differ individually from one another not numerically , but each by its whole nature or essence, that is, formally .
— from Ontology, or the Theory of Being by P. (Peter) Coffey

The family resulting from this cross consisted of normal males and normal females, lacticolor males and lacticolor females, and the Page 101 {101} four sorts were produced in approximately equal numbers.
— from Mendelism Third Edition by Reginald Crundall Punnett

And Mary Lyon showed me the way down to the kitchen, which I had forgotten, where, on condition of not making a noise, I was to be permitted for the present to abide.
— from The Dew of Their Youth by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

The compositions of native musicians are nearly banished from the concerts of the metropolis; the glees of Webbe, Calcott, Cooke, and Battishill, as well as those of their living successors, being superseded by the productions of foreign composers.
— from The Harmonicon. Part the First by Various

In the Prospectus issued by the Vocal Society, it is stated that ‘the compositions of native musicians are nearly banished from the concerts of the metropolis; the glees of Webbe , Callcott , Cooke , and Battishill , as well as those of their living successors, being superseded by the productions of foreign composers;’ and further, ‘the intention of the Vocal Society is to present, as its principal feature , the vocal music of the English school, both ancient and modern, including that of the church, the chamber, and the theatre.’
— from The Harmonicon. Part the First by Various