As to the Shan States, I represented the manner in which our relations with the feudatory chiefs in the Central Provinces were managed and the saving in cost and responsibility to be gained by leaving them quasi-independent.
— from The Pacification of Burma by C. H. T. (Charles Haukes Todd) Crosthwaite

He also delivered the patriarch Eutychius from a false Origenistic notion, that the bodies of the blessed after the resurrection were not glorified, but lost their quality as bodies.
— from The Holy See and the Wandering of the Nations, from St. Leo I to St. Gregory I by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies

The distance in degrees between any two stars or between a star and the Moon, a planet, or a comet may be found at a glance by laying the quadrant of altitude on the pair of objects and reading off the number of degrees separating them.
— from Telescopic Work for Starlight Evenings by William F. (William Frederick) Denning

" Image 11 Besides ground birds, like the quail, there are some eccentrics, such as Jenny wren, which have despised their tails, and there are specialists also which require them for other purposes than flying.
— from Concerning Animals and Other Matters by Edward Hamilton Aitken

White faced and still, with a ghastly wound in his right temple, Geoffrey Bracknell lay there, quite dead.
— from The Lady of North Star by Ottwell Binns

The Light Division, under Sir George Brown, left their quarters on the plateau near Aladyn, and marched {50} to Devna, about eight and a half or nine miles off; on that day, and on Saturday morning, the First Division, under his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, marched from their encampment outside Varna, and pitched their tents on the plateau of Aladyn, with their left flank resting on the ground which had just been abandoned by the Rifle Brigade, and their right extending to the plains lately used by the Light Division as parading and drill ground.
— from The British Expedition to the Crimea by Russell, William Howard, Sir