A few months later, on 13th January 1886, the end came suddenly to the elder, from the effects of an accident at his own door.[71] It may be doubted if Yule ever really got over the shock of this loss, though he went on with his work as usual, and served that year as a Royal Commissioner on the occasion of the Indian and Colonial Exhibition of 1886.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Att a Court of Mine and Miners of Our Sovereign Lord the King, held att the Speech-ouse, in and for the Forest of Deane, on Tuesday the 13 th day of December, in the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and forty-eight, before Christopher Bond, Esq r , and Thomas James, gentleman, deputyes to the Right Honourable Augustus, Earl of Berkeley, Constable of the Castle of S t Briavels, in the County of Gloucester, Christopher Bond, Esq r , gaveller of the said mines, and Phillip Elly, deputy gaveller of the said mines.
— from The Forest of Dean: An Historical and Descriptive Account by H. G. (Henry George) Nicholls

Eabani reveals glimpses of the sad conditions that prevail there.
— from The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Morris Jastrow

If, however, instead of allowing the basal part of the amputated branch to protrude as a stump, we cut it off close to the stem, and shave the section flush with the normal surface of the latter, the callus formed by the cambium, etc., rapidly grows over the surface, and soon forms a layer of cambium continuous with that of the rest of the stem.
— from Disease in Plants by H. Marshall (Harry Marshall) Ward

The return of Edward, the honours he had received, the perfect happiness beaming on his bright face, all caused Ellen to look forward to the ball with greater pleasure than she had ever regarded gaiety of that sort before; and Mrs. Hamilton would sometimes playfully declare that she and Emmeline had for a time exchanged characters, although Edward's never-failing liveliness, his odd tales and joyous laugh, had appeared partly to rouse the latter's usual spirits, and dissipate slightly her mother's anxiety.
— from The Mother's Recompense, Volume 2 A Sequel to Home Influence by Grace Aguilar

But old Haidee's eyes roved greedily over the sparkling gems in the casket.
— from The Bride of the Tomb, and Queenie's Terrible Secret by Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.

Professor Abbott P. Usher of the Department of Economic History helped with several of the chapters, while Professor Ernest R. Groves of the same institution kindly criticized the chapter on Rural Life.
— from Problems in American Democracy by Thames Williamson

These bright flashes proceed from the facets of minute crystals formed about each rounded grain of the sand, and if we examine them under a lens, we may note the beauty of line formed with such exactness that the most delicate instruments can detect no difference between the similar angles of neighboring crystals ( Fig. 12 ).
— from Earth Features and Their Meaning An Introduction to Geology for the Student and the General Reader by William Herbert Hobbs

Although my eyes remained "glued" on the spot from which the bird arose, no nest or sign of young could be found when I reached the place.
— from Life Histories of North American Shore Birds, Part 1 (of 2) by Arthur Cleveland Bent