The people were deprived of their most popular leaders, who were excluded from all positions of trust and profit, especially all the clergy.
— from Our Legal Heritage: King AEthelbert - King George III, 600 A.D. - 1776 by S. A. Reilly

“Walter Lorraine died of the measles, poor little beggar, when we were at Grey Friars.
— from The History of Pendennis by William Makepeace Thackeray

The Lower and Middle Speckled Sandstones are succeeded by the Lower Productus Limestone which is separated from the Lower division of the Middle Productus Limestone by the Upper Speckled Sandstone; these are all of the Permo-Carboniferous period, while the upper part of the Middle Productus Limestone and the Upper Productus Limestone belongs to the Permian period.
— from The Principles of Stratigraphical Geology by J. E. (John Edward) Marr

Deducting the 6-foot depth of the main plane leaves 19 feet as the length of the rudder beam and rudders.
— from Flying Machines: Construction and Operation A Practical Book Which Shows, in Illustrations, Working Plans and Text, How to Build and Navigate the Modern Airship by William J. (William James) Jackman

The drying of the moist paper leaving the press rolls of the machine is effected in the usual manner by means of drying cylinders.
— from The Manufacture of Paper With Illustrations, and a Bibliography of Works Relating to Cellulose and Paper-Making by R. W. (Robert Walter) Sindall

An interesting aftermath of the Boxer massacres in 1900 was the strange disappearance of the Manchu prince, Liang Chow, who was condemned to be strangled in private with the silver cord, which two unseen friends were to tighten behind two holes bored in a wall.
— from China Revolutionized by John Stuart Thomson

A community drained of the male principle, leaving only a few queer men, the blacksmith, and some halfling boys, to give tone to the background of dozens of old maids.
— from Red Saunders: His Adventures West & East by Henry Wallace Phillips

Chapter Eighteen EXTENSION TOWARD MEXICO—Dan W. Jones' Great Exploring Trip; The Pratt-Stewart-Trejo Expedition; Start of the Lehi Community; Plat of Lehi; Transformation Wrought at Camp Utah; Departure of the Merrill Party; Lehi's Later Development.
— from Mormon Settlement in Arizona A Record of Peaceful Conquest of the Desert by James H. McClintock

This answers in every respect to Vasari's eloquent description of the magna peccatrix , lovely still in her penitence.
— from The Later Works of Titian by Phillips, Claude, Sir

This acquisition, obtained by the primeval men, was transmitted to their descendants as an improved physical organization, and in those descendants it finally reached the marvelous development of the most perfect languages of antiquity.
— from Creation or Evolution? A Philosophical Inquiry by George Ticknor Curtis