A few days after our visit to the Governor's, we called on the Rev. Edward Elliott, the Archdeacon at Barbadoes, to whom we had been previously introduced at the house of a friend in Bridgetown.
— from The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4 by American Anti-Slavery Society
The entire work was critically edited by Mr. Justin Winsor, Librarian of Harvard University, with the co-operation of a committee appointed at a meeting of the gentlemen interested, consisting of the Rev. Edward Everett Hale, D.D., Samuel A. Green, M.D. and Charles Deane, LL.D.
— from The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 6 by Various
They were strangers and pilgrims (as St. Peter calls them), who had no city or government of their own, but had been scattered abroad among the Gentiles, and settled in all the great cities of the Roman Empire, especially in the East: in Babylon, from which St. Peter wrote his epistle, where the Jews had a great settlement in the rich plains of the river Euphrates; in Syria; in Asia Minor, which we now call Turkey in Asia: in Persia, and many other Eastern lands.
— from Discipline and Other Sermons by Charles Kingsley
I shouldn't think they'd want a chunk of their real estate exported to Europe."
— from And Then the Town Took Off by Richard Wilson
There, crouching in unison, the six pallbearers laid the coffin on a cradle of two ropes, each end held by two servants, over the oblong pit.
— from Shaman by Robert Shea
Old Man Curry made one brisk circle of the ring, examining every line of ticket holders, then he walked out on the lawn.
— from Old Man Curry: Race Track Stories by Charles E. (Charles Emmett) Van Loan
Among the forest highlands at the foot of the sierras to the north of the Amazon, the magnificent orange-coloured cock of the rocks enjoys existence.
— from The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by William Henry Giles Kingston
Nodier passed through life without a Virgil, because he never succeeded in finding the ideal Virgil of his dreams,—a clean, uncut copy of the right Elzevir edition, with the misprint, and the two passages in red letters.
— from Books and Bookmen by Andrew Lang
The conversion of the Roman empire easily explicable, 393.
— from History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) by William Edward Hartpole Lecky
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