Like the contemporary British House of Lords, it had become a gathering of big business men, energetic politicians, successful adventurers, great landowners, and the like; its patrician dignity was a picturesque sham; but, unlike the British House of Lords, it was unchecked legally by anything but the inefficient Popular Assembly we have already described, and by the tribunes elected by the plebeian assembly.
— from The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Many experienced physicians, such as Grimm, Crugerus, Wytt, Murray, Letsom, condemn the abuse of the plant as highly dangerous.
— from Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen

He must have been a most excellent player, since, as Gerber says, in his time no foreign cellist ventured to play in Prague.
— from The Violoncello and Its History by Wilhelm Joseph von Wasielewski

SUITABLE PLANTS Some flowers suitable for growing in window boxes outside in summer are those of drooping habit: lobelia, Kenilworth ivy, verbena, tropeolum, petunia, and sweet-alyssum toward the front, and behind, more erect plants, such as geranium, heliotrope, begonia, phlox, and nasturtium.
— from Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study by Ontario. Department of Education

It ought, however, to be said that Armance is an early and remarkable Romantic experiment in several ways, not least in the foreign mottoes, English, Portuguese, Spanish, and German, which are prefixed to the chapters.
— from A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury