A creditor of the two exiled royal brothers for sundry tavern loans and tipples drew for his obligation an office in far-off Virginia.
— from The Entailed Hat; Or, Patty Cannon's Times by George Alfred Townsend

4 : For example, this from Ramusio: 'And the coast is all low land, full of most beautiful and very tall trees, which are evergreen, as the leaves do not wither as do those in our country, but a new leaf appears before the other is cast off: the trees extend right down into the marshy tract of shore, and look as if flourishing on the sea.
— from The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times by Alfred Biese

In the case of tourmaline the extraordinary ray possesses the power of penetrating the 405 substance of the crystal much more freely than the ordinary ray, which a small thickness suffices to absorb altogether.
— from Discoveries and Inventions of the Nineteenth Century by Robert Routledge

In the new-born infant it consists of twelve to eighteen radiating lobes (Figure 2.288).
— from The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 by Ernst Haeckel

Moreover, while the proportion that the Jewish immigrants constituted of the total immigrants exhibited a considerable and significant variation, fluctuating from 7.7 per cent to 13.2 per cent, the proportion the Jewish emigrants constituted of the total emigrants remained around 2 per cent and showed practically no variation.
— from Jewish Immigration to the United States from 1881 to 1910 Studies in History, Economics and Public Law, Vol. LIX, No. 4, 1914 by Samuel Joseph

The combination of these two elements results in the impression conveyed by Parnapishtim's narrative that the rain-storm took on larger dimensions than was originally anticipated by the gods.
— from The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Morris Jastrow