A development of the leaf treatment was the division into lobes, each lobe being channelled with a group of radial grooves ending in serrations.
— from Design and Tradition A short account of the principles and historic development of architecture and the applied arts by Amor Fenn

All maps, therefore, pretending to represent the geography of remote geological epochs must be ideal.
— from Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

Some iudge that she tooke hir name of hir excellent beautie, bicause Guinne or Guenne in the Welsh toong signifieth faire, so that she was named Guennere or rather Guenlhean, euen (as you would say) the faire or beautifull Elenor or Helen.
— from Holinshed Chronicles: England, Scotland, and Ireland. Volume 1, Complete by William Harrison

ar down the passage, just sneaking around the bend, was a group of Rogan guards, each armed with a death-tube.
— from The Red Hell of Jupiter by Paul Ernst

In its general aspect the country was like an English park, dotted here and there with timber, around which grazed or rested great elands and other buck, and amongst them a huge rhinoceros.
— from The Ghost Kings by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

He expressed himself as perfectly delighted to meet a group of Radcliffe girls, explaining that although he had been a whole year at Harvard, they were the first students from the woman’s college whom he had met.
— from Brenda's Cousin at Radcliffe: A Story for Girls by Helen Leah Reed

But if you turn God’s grace in keeping you alive into a cloak for licentiousness and an excuse for sinning—if, when God keeps you alive that you may lead good lives, you take advantage of His fatherly love to lead bad lives—if you go on returning God evil for good, and ungratefully and basely presume on His patience and love to do the things which He hates, what must you expect?
— from True Words for Brave Men: A Book for Soldiers' and Sailors' Libraries by Charles Kingsley