The reference is possibly used to indicate a type of ancient grain resembling Egyptian Corn also known as Durra.
— from The First Book of Adam and Eve by Rutherford Hayes Platt

French Globular Roaster Edwin Crawley and W.T. Johnston, Newport, Ky., assignors to the Potter-Parlin Co., New York, were granted four United States patents on gas coffee-roasting machines.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Inflation rose in 2007-08, driven in part by strong consumer demand and high wage growth, rising energy costs, a nation-wide drought affecting food prices, and a relaxation of fiscal discipline.
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Before the vision of “Gwendolen free” rose the impassable vision of “Gwendolen rich, exalted, courted;” and if in the former time, when both their lives were fresh, she had turned from his love with repugnance, what ground was there for supposing that her heart would be more open to him in the future?
— from Daniel Deronda by George Eliot

In the third place he was greatly affected, not merely by the paramount place of sanctity in the Roman theology and the professed Roman system, but by the standard of saintliness which he found there, involving complete and heroic self-sacrifice for great religious ends, complete abandonment of the world, painful and continuous self-discipline, purified and exalted religious affections, beside which English piety and goodness at its best, in such examples as George Herbert and Ken and Bishop Wilson, seemed unambitious and pale and tame, of a different order from the Roman, and less closely resembling what we read of in the first ages and in the New Testament.
— from The Oxford Movement; Twelve Years, 1833-1845 by R. W. (Richard William) Church

Cloth of gold, richly embroidered cloaks, and expensive jewels, make up the wardrobe of the richer companies.
— from The Kingdom of the Yellow Robe Being Sketches of the Domestic and Religious Rites and Ceremonies of the Siamese by Ernest Young

Great rejas enclose choir and Capilla Mayor from the transept.
— from Cathedrals of Spain by John A. (John Allyne) Gade

They fall thus into categories—Hebrew, Greek, Roman, Early Christian, and Crusading—all rock-cut, but all presenting differences.
— from Palestine by C. R. (Claude Reignier) Conder

The fairest promise of good roads, enchanting country, and picturesque towns could not have turned us a hair’s breadth from the route we had settled upon.
— from Our sentimental journey through France and Italy A new edition with Appendix by Joseph Pennell