Years ago, when first beginning to read Burke, we remember wondering why the name of "the great proconsul" of Hindustan looked so familiar to the eye: when we recollected that in our childhood we used frequently to see here along the old Kingston road the name Warren Hastings appended in conspicuous characters, to placards posted up, advertising a "Lost Cow," or some other homely animal, gone astray.—Adjoining Mr. Hasting's farm, still moving west, was that of Mr. Mills, with whose name in our mind is associated the name of "Hannah Mills," an unmarried member of his household, who was the Sister of Charity of the neighbourhood, ever ready in times of sickness and bereavement to render, for days and nights together, kindly, sympathetic and consolatory aid.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

So this singular magistracy was instituted, which presented to the commons an obvious and available aid, and yet could not possibly carry out the necessary economic reform.
— from The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) by Theodor Mommsen

[463] —or his religion, which appeared to Bruno a corruption of the nobler Egyptian religion.
— from Giordano Bruno by J. Lewis (James Lewis) McIntyre

Whether this was a political ruse of the conspirators or the new emperor, remains quite uncertain; however, a solemn Te Deum was ordered to be celebrated in the cathedral of Casan, at which the empress-mother and the Grand-Dukes Nicholas and Michael were present.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.—September, 1851—Vol. III. by Various

This is the cause of the numerous encircling reefs which are found around so many of the islands of the Pacific—affording harbours within them, and sheltering the shore from the fury of the waves.
— from Mary Liddiard; Or, The Missionary's Daughter by William Henry Giles Kingston

In the sub-apostolic church it was customary for a banquet to be held in commemoration of the Paschal Supper, early in the afternoon, lasting all night, previous to the celebration of the new Eucharistic rite, which took place at dawn.
— from Perpetua. A Tale of Nimes in A.D. 213 by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

Yet criticism of the new economic regime was not lacking.
— from The Canadian Dominion: A Chronicle of Our Northern Neighbor by Oscar D. (Oscar Douglas) Skelton

In this department he had the benefit of the able and unremitting assistance of his son, who, in the workshops at Newcastle, directly superintended the construction of the new engines required for the public working of the railway.
— from Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson by Samuel Smiles

HAINZEL.—This remarkable formation, which is about 55 miles in greatest length, but is hardly half so broad, derives its abnormal shape from the partial coalescence of two nearly equal ring-plains, the walls of both being very lofty,—more than 10,000 feet.
— from The Moon: A Full Description and Map of its Principal Physical Features by Thomas Gwyn Elger

In 1827 he became editor of a paper in New London, Connecticut, but in the following year he went to Hartford to take charge of the New England Review , which "was the Louisville Journal , born in Connecticut."
— from Kentucky in American Letters, 1784-1912. Vol. 1 of 2 by John Wilson Townsend