B. ROGER, ABBOT, C. HAVING embraced the Cistercian order at Loroy, or Locus Regis, in Berry, he was chosen abbot of Elan near Retel in Champagne, and died about the year 1175.
— from The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints. January, February, March by Alban Butler

It is thought to be the most extravagant, though the most respectable, way of spending money; and an annual outlay which, if dissipated in eating and drinking, or Continental tours, would excite no remark, is considered extravagance if spent on a comfortable vehicle to drive about in one's own neighborhood.
— from Wenderholme: A Story of Lancashire and Yorkshire by Philip Gilbert Hamerton

" Afterward they plodded on toward Bowater, and the ensuing night rested in Chantrell Wood.
— from Chivalry by James Branch Cabell

At Acca she had heard the movement discussed by English pilgrims; and in English newspapers, read in continental reading-rooms, she had come across many comments—indignant, sarcastic, infuriate—upon the performances of these outrageous females.
— from Julia France and Her Times: A Novel by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

But it is quite interesting that an angry outburst of another patient within this same period, which was evidently not recorded, is clearly remembered.
— from Benign Stupors: A Study of a New Manic-Depressive Reaction Type by August Hoch

Observing the actual operations of such advisers in a number of cases, the writer has been convinced that in every new rural immigrant colony an intelligent, sympathetic, and efficient adviser is needed, and that the private colonization companies are to be commended for employing such advisers.
— from A Stake in the Land by Peter A. (Peter Alexander) Speek

Hujus posteros etsi non repperi in compendio unde Regum Daniæ Fragmenta descripsi; tamen genealogiam hanc alibi sic oblatam integre ut sequitur visum est contexere.
— from The Relation of the Hrólfs Saga Kraka and the Bjarkarímur to Beowulf A Contribution To The History Of Saga Development In England And The Scandinavian Countries by Oscar Ludvig Olson

"The habits, the feelings, all the prejudices of society—prejudices which neither refinement , nor argument , nor education , nor religion itself , can subdue—mark the people of color, whether bond or free, as the subjects of degradation inevitable and incurable .
— from An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans by Lydia Maria Child

There are numerous examples where the former meet peaceably to exploit natural resources in common.
— from The State: Its History and Development Viewed Sociologically by Franz Oppenheimer

An early explorer of Virginia said that if the country had horses and kine and were peopled with English, no realm in Christendom could be compared with it.
— from Stage-coach and Tavern Days by Alice Morse Earle