of lead each in the soles, complete the dress.
— from How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Archibald Williams

[Jealousies of a Country Town.] GRANDLIEU (Duc Ferdinand de), born about 1773; may have descended from the Comtesse de Grandlieu who lived early in the seventeenth century, and consequently connected with the old and worthy nobility of the Duchy of Brittany whose device was "Caveo non timeo."
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

To live in adjoining provinces, to live even in the same country, though without seeing him, was comparative happiness to the conviction of this dreadful length of distance.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

They founded a monastery at Lindisfarne early in the seventh century.
— from Illumination and Its Development in the Present Day by Sidney Farnsworth

As a child and a young girl her arresting and palpable beauty had made her an irresistible mark for boys and young men, and one or two only of her early episodes, nearly all of which began well enough but ended in sometimes very rough attempts at seduction, would have crowded out of Mrs. Lester Keene's whole humdrum, drone-like life every incident that she could recall.
— from Scandal: A Novel by Cosmo Hamilton

But it is certain that he cannot be considered to have belonged to the far-famed Keltic movement, and that he was miles behind Landor, even in the severe classic vein.
— from The Wild Irishman by T. W. H. (Thomas William Hodgson) Crosland

The edema is greater, there may be signs of edema of the lungs, effusions into the serous cavities may occur.
— from Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension, with Chapters on Blood Pressure 3rd Edition. by Louis M. (Louis Marshall) Warfield

It is local except in the southwestern counties.
— from Trees of Indiana First Revised Edition (Publication No. 13, Department of Conservation, State of Indiana) by Charles Clemon Deam

A hundred and eighty years afterwards Huc noticed the same habit, and attributed it to an edict issued by the Dalai Lama early in the seventeenth century.
— from The Unveiling of Lhasa by Edmund Candler

[254] who lived early in the seventh century—which probably implies that it was not of recent composition even then.
— from The Heroic Age by H. Munro (Hector Munro) Chadwick

If the members of a labor union should break the law, especially if they should commit an act of violence during a strike, the organs of capitalist opinion teem with denunciation, but there is no breath of condemnation for the outrages committed by employers or their agents against union men and their families.
— from Socialism: A Summary and Interpretation of Socialist Principles by John Spargo

Bishop Browne believes that these scrolls and interlacings had their origin in Lombardy and not in Ireland, that they were Italian and not Celtic, and that the same sort of designs were used in the southern land early in the seventh century, whence they were brought by Wilfrid to this country.
— from Vanishing England by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield