Mosque design, with columns and pendant floral lamp relieved on solid ground of rare Egyptian red, surmounted by arabesques in white upon dark turquoise, framed in lovely contrasting borders.”
— from The Oriental Rug A Monograph on Eastern Rugs and Carpets, Saddle-Bags, Mats & Pillows, with a Consideration of Kinds and Classes, Types, Borders, Figures, Dyes, Symbols, etc. Together with Some Practical Advice to Collectors. by William De Lancey Ellwanger

So far as I can learn, the Association Unity of Russia is the name of a group of Russian emigrés residing in New York.
— from The Jew and American Ideals by John Spargo

" "I'm afraid you must think our goings on rather eccentric," Rorie began shyly; "but perhaps Vix——Miss Tempest has told you what old friends we are; that, in fact, I am quite the oldest friend she has.
— from Vixen, Volume III. by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

"Say, Randy, I think you got off rather easily," remarked Andy, when they were alone.
— from The Rover Boys at Colby Hall; or, The Struggles of the Young Cadets by Edward Stratemeyer

Crabb listened with new interest as his old friend gave him an account of what had happened in the five years which had intervened since they had last met, recalling piece by piece the unfortunate events which had led to his departure from New York, and Burnett, glad of receptive ears, rehearsed it for him.
— from The Maker of Opportunities by George Gibbs

The gauge of reformative effort regulated to the degenerate reactions of instinctive social wolves, at the expense of their sore needs!
— from Criminal Types by V. M. (Vincent Myron) Masten

And in the quiet spot where the willow bends, and the brook murmurs, by the side of his mother, and near the grave of Rhoda Edwards, rest the remains of Lewie .
— from Lewie; Or, The Bended Twig by Sarah H. (Sarah Hopkins) Bradford

It is quite true that hésho signifies gum or resin, etc. (referring, as I then supposed, to áhesho , or gum rock, a name for lava; used constructively in the oldest round huts of the basaltic regions); but the root he enters into many other compounds, such as not only wax, gum, pitch, metal (as being rock-pitch, that is, melted from rocks), etc., but also mud, clay-paste, mud-mortar, and finally adobe, as being dried mud mortar; hence walls made either with or of adobe, etc.
— from Outlines of Zuñi Creation Myths Thirteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1891-1892, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1896, pages 321-448 by Frank Hamilton Cushing

From some irregularities in the disposal of the property, the will was disputed, and eventually an Act of Parliament (7th George I., 1720) was obtained for the disposal of the estates, which were declared to be vested in trust for the earl's son-in-law, James, fourth earl of Barrymore, with remainder to Lady Penelope Barry, the only issue of his marriage with the Lady Elizabeth Savage, and the granddaughter of Richard Earl Rivers and his wife Penelope Downes, the heiress of Wardley.
— from Historic Sites of Lancashire and Cheshire A Wayfarer's Notes in the Palatine Counties, Historical, Legendary, Genealogical, and Descriptive. by James Croston