Chance, or rather Providence, led him past "Mrs. Parry's Eye" about five o'clock.
— from A Coin of Edward VII: A Detective Story by Fergus Hume

Capsicum or red pepper, licorice (the imports of which have all been in the hands of one person), camphor, belladonna, henbane, and stramonium are possible fields for culture; but they are all experiments.
— from Three Acres and Liberty by Bolton Hall

And as a rule, when he did perform this function of the wizard,—a name given to him by a more than popular appropriateness,—he usually did it, not by the accumulation of a vast number of small strokes, but by throwing on the canvas, or rather panel, large outlines, free sweeps of line, and breadths of colour, instinct with vivacity and movement.
— from A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) by George Saintsbury

The roof was constructed of rough poles laid at short distances apart, and above these were small branches, on which was a sort of thatch of reeds and rushes.
— from Beric the Briton : a Story of the Roman Invasion by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

For to all who understood the existent conditions of Roman public life, his attainment of the consulship and of a dominant position in the councils of the State must have seemed impossible.
— from A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate by A. H. J. (Abel Hendy Jones) Greenidge

And I can understand better why the ancients of Yucatan, accustomed to the charm of real physical light (about which you Northerners know nothing), put no fire into their hell, but darkness only, as woe enough for tropical souls to bear!
— from The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn, Volume 1 by Elizabeth Bisland

The painter Rubens, gathering inspiration in the courts of royalty, portrayed luxury and magnificence.
— from The Art & Practice of Typography A Manual of American Printing, Including a Brief History up to the Twentieth Century, with Reproductions of the Work of Early Masters of the Craft, and a Practical Discussion and an Extensive Demonstration of the Modern Use of Type-faces and Methods of Arrangement by Edmund G. (Edmund Geiger) Gress

Ricini oleum (B. P.), Oleum castorei , O. ricini (Ph. L., E., & D.), L. “The oil prepared by heat, or by pressure, from the seed” of “ Ricinis communis , Linn.”
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume II by Richard Vine Tuson

We will follow the silk cultivator and his family, as they carry the small baskets containing the worms into the hoosse , which is a large hut with a peat roof; the walls are composed of reeds, platted liked mats, with small partitions on every side.
— from The Thistle and the Cedar of Lebanon by Habeeb Risk Allah