To them the purple glens reply in echoes gently dying into silence.
— from Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10: The Guide by Charles Herbert Sylvester

Every time I visit this noble church, I leave it with greater regret; its exceeding grandeur appears to deserve a {118} better fate than the spare use to which it seems now to be abandoned.
— from Brick and Marble in the Middle Ages: Notes of Tours in the North of Italy by George Edmund Street

“Originally it consisted simply of an infusion of gentian root in English gin, coloured and flavoured with a little red lavender (compound spirit of lavender.).
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume II by Richard Vine Tuson

It grows rapidly, is extremely graceful, has leaves delicate as a fern, and in winter throws against the sky a tracery of twigs which is beautiful to look upon.
— from Pleasant Talk About Fruits, Flowers and Farming by Henry Ward Beecher

Concerning the division of the Germanic race into East Germanic and West Germanic tribes, cp. H. Zimmer, 'Ostgermanisch und Westgermanisch', in Zs.
— from A Gothic Grammar, with selections for reading and a glossary by Wilhelm Braune

PAP Papír o , a kinde of great rush in Egypt growing in fens or moorish grounds, called Papir-reede, whereof they were wont to make great leaues to write on, and thereof was the first paper made and to this day called paper.
— from Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues by John Florio