Compare the following lines with the rhythm say of Elaine or Guinevere ; ­ But now will canker sorrow eat my bud, And chase the native beauty from his cheek, And he will look as hollow as a ghost; As dim and meagre as an ague's fit:
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

Of triumphant shows made by the citizens of London, ye may read, [112] in the year 1236, the 20th of Henry III., Andrew Bockwell then being mayor, how Helianor, daughter to Reymond, Earl of Provance, riding through the city towards Westminster, there to be crowned queen of England, the city was adorned with silks, and in the night with lamps, cressets, and other lights without number, besides many pageants and strange devices there presented; the citizens also rode to meet the king and queen, clothed in long garments embroidered about with gold, [88] and silks of divers colours, their horses gallantly trapped to the number of three hundred and sixty, every man bearing a cup of gold or silver in his hand, and the king’s trumpeters sounding before them.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

Keith, Earl Marischal, by a charter ratified by act of Parliament.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

‘If I have only a piece of bread (and I certainly shall always be able to get that), I can, whenever I like, eat my butter and cheese with it; and when I am thirsty I can milk my cow and drink the milk: and what can I wish for more?’
— from Grimms' Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm

Tandem Coffee Pulper of English Make Being a combination of a Bon-Accord-Valencia pulper with a Bon-Accord repassing machine
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

We see it particularly displayed in all the subordinate distributions of power, where the constant aim is to divide and arrange the several offices in such a manner as that each may be a check on the other—that the private interest of every individual may be a sentinel over the public rights.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

But now will canker sorrow eat my bud And chase the native beauty from his cheek,
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

As they approached the centre of the town the scene was brightened by a row of well-lit stores, and even more by a cluster of saloons and gaming houses, in which the miners spent their hard-earned but generous wages.
— from The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle

Read the pious books and you’ll see how many cures are effected merely by a clean confession.” “Pardon me,” objected the piqued Doña Victorina, “this power of the confessional—cure the alferez’s woman with a confession!” “A wound, madam, is not a form of illness which the conscience can affect,” replied Padre Salvi severely.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

To-day even the pantheist who does not acknowledge a Creator of Heaven and Earth may be a Christian; and so can he who no longer believes in personal immortality and in a hereafter; for, we are informed, “this religion is above the contrasts of here and the beyond, of life and death, of Reason and Ecstatics, of Judaism and Hellenism” ( Harnack ).
— from The Freedom of Science by Josef Donat

Dear Father and Mother, I think I should manifest an energy more becoming a child of yours if I were to sustain my nodding head at least enough longer to scrawl the initial words of my usual letter: we are travellers in the midst of travel.
— from The Letters of Henry James (Vol. I) by Henry James

Windows, again, should be so constructed that they can be easily manipulated by a child.
— from The Dwelling House by George Vivian Poore

In its treatment of the land question in California the United States made one of the gravest mistakes ever made by a civilized nation.
— from History of California by Helen Elliott Bandini

But thrilling in its clear simplicity as his slogan epigram may be, a complex political and social system cannot be fully dealt with in fifteen words.
— from Defenders of Democracy Contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy by Militia of Mercy (U.S.). Gift Book Committee

A Bill for the erection and maintenance of schools with English masters by a charge on ecclesiastical property was thrown out by the Bishops, who thought that they and not the Lord Deputy should have the patronage in their own hands, and with better reason demurred to the exemption of impropriated lands, which were often the richest part of what had belonged to the Church.
— from Ireland under the Tudors, with a Succinct Account of the Earlier History. Vol. 2 (of 3) by Richard Bagwell

From an examination made by a committee of the Statistical Society into the condition of the poorer classes in the borough of Marylebone, it appeared that the distribution of rooms amongst the portion of population examined showed that not more than one family in a hundred had a third room.
— from A supplementary report on the results of a special inquiry into the practice of interment in towns. by Edwin Chadwick

Boulte, the Engineer, Mrs. Boulte, and Captain Kurrell know this.
— from The Works of Rudyard Kipling: One Volume Edition by Rudyard Kipling

As amended the clause will read: No person appointed to a place under any exception to examination made by any customs rule shall be transferred from such place to another place not also excepted from examination.
— from A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 8, part 2: Grover Cleveland by Grover Cleveland