The Jews often took the precaution of purchasing certain rights and franchises from their sovereign or from the feudal lord under whose sway they lived; but generally these were one-sided bargains, for not being protected by common rights, and only forming a very small part of the population, they could nowhere depend upon promises or privileges which had been made to them, even though they had purchased them with their own money.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

I arrived at last at a farm, where I was coldly received at first; for they took me for a spy.
— from Ten Months in the Field with the Boers by Anonymous

In a potato plant colourless runners are formed from the base of the main stem which grow underground and produce tubers at their tips: from a higher level foliage shoots arise nearer the apex.
— from Darwin and Modern Science by A. C. (Albert Charles) Seward

Each woman on confinement has a bundle given her containing articles of clothing for the infant, pieces of cloth and rag, and some nourishment, as sugar, coffee, rice and flour for the mother."
— from American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips

Owing to the rigid quarantine regulations enforced against dogs imported into Australia, that country remains absolutely free from the disease.
— from Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by Dr. (Benjamin Tilghman) Woodward

She usually comes only about to the knee of the King, though she is life-size even then, for his own statues are colossal, ranging anywhere from fifteen to fifty feet high.
— from The Ship-Dwellers: A Story of a Happy Cruise by Albert Bigelow Paine

To this Cecil replied as follows:— “For the matter of priests, I will also clearly deliver your Majesty my mind.
— from What Gunpowder Plot Was by Samuel Rawson Gardiner

Mr. Chesnut read as follows, from the case of Dred Scott vs. Sandford, pp.
— from The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 1 by Jefferson Davis

He lay on his back, with open eyes, and damp face and hair; his arms rested inert on the sheet; and underneath that thin covering his chest rose and fell from time to time, with a scarcely perceptible movement.
— from Leonora by Arnold Bennett

As we gazed upon it, and the blue-tinted water came rippling and falling from terrace to terrace in miniature cascades, Te Otukapurangi looked radiant in its sparkling mantle of delicate pink; and as the golden rays of the sun shot far and wide, it changed with every shade of light, with brilliant hues of pink, amber, carmine, and yellow, which shone with a dazzling and almost metallic lustre as they flashed and palpitated, as it were, in the warm, glowing air, and seemed to vie in splendour with the blue of the heavens, the green tints of the lake, and the countless bright colours of the surrounding vegetation, which spread out far and wide over the surrounding hills.
— from The King Country; or, Explorations in New Zealand A Narrative of 600 Miles of Travel Through Maoriland. by J. H. (James Henry) Kerry-Nicholls