Religion and political constitutions, which seemed destined soon to disappear, could reckon on no other support than the prejudices or the interests of governments.
— from Protestantism and Catholicity compared in their effects on the civilization of Europe by Jaime Luciano Balmes

She knew that there would be candidates in the conclave relying on none of such good gifts, but solely on the backing of the great powers of Europe.
— from A Decade of Italian Women, vol. 2 (of 2) by Thomas Adolphus Trollope

After a year of renewed heathendom, however, during part of which the Welsh Cadwalla reigned over Northumbria, Oswald, son of Æthelfrith, again united Deira and Bernicia under his own rule.
— from Anglo-Saxon Britain by Grant Allen

Companies wandered about, as they do in England, attacking villages, strong points, and woods, and indulged in vast schemes of pursuit after phantom armies called Red or North or South Armies.
— from The 56th Division (1st London Territorial Division) by C. H. (Charles Humble) Dudley Ward

The number of correct reproductions of numbers of seven places increased during the teens, although this class of children remain about one digit behind normal children of corresponding age.
— from Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by G. Stanley (Granville Stanley) Hall