The Lady Margaret had married Edmund Tudor, Earl of Richmond, the half-brother of Henry VI., and by him had a single child, Henry, now Earl of Richmond by his father's decease.
— from A History of England Eleventh Edition by Charles Oman

Some good men thanked God that it had not been a poor man's house; young men enjoyed the excitement of "running with the machine," and those with an eye for the picturesque were thankful that the unsightly shanty had been removed from a place where it disfigured the landscape.
— from Freaks of Fortune; or, Half Round the World by Oliver Optic

The Grand Master elect, the Earl of Ripon, in giving the toast of the Prince and the Princess of Wales, said that the Prince had entered the craft determined to discharge his duties to the fullest extent, and he had taken the earliest opportunity of presiding at one of the festivals of the craft.
— from Speeches and Addresses of H. R. H. the Prince of Wales: 1863-1888 by King of Great Britain Edward VII

So when the “missioners” came with new light on the matter—no longer insisting upon silence where a few of the brethren and sisters were met to edify one another—it was not, as the minister said, those who were best fitted for it who were the readiest to claim the right or the privilege, whichever it might be called; and as for him, he was not urgent about the matter, either to encourage or restrain.
— from Allison Bain; Or, By a Way She Knew Not by Margaret M. (Margaret Murray) Robertson

It was his main effort to establish, on rational grounds, the existence of God, and afterwards the doctrines of the Trinity and the Incarnation.
— from Beacon Lights of History, Volume 3 part 1: The Middle Ages by John Lord

356 The National Assembly, then in session, passed the following resolve: “The National Assembly, desirous of honoring the memory of Paul Jones, Admiral of the United States of America, and to preserve by a memorable example, the equality of religious rights, decrees that twelve of its members shall assist at the funeral solemnities of a man who has so well served the cause of liberty.”
— from The Life and Adventures of Rear-Admiral John Paul Jones, Commonly Called Paul Jones by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

Manners, Edward, third Earl of Rutland, 253 n .
— from Henry VIII. by A. F. (Albert Frederick) Pollard

He (she) has become my fellow-parent-in-law , i. e. Our children have intermarried ; the form ka-baláe merely makes explicit the element of relation present in the simple word: 5 Si Bantùg ay áki ŋ baláe.
— from Tagalog Texts with Grammatical Analysis by Leonard Bloomfield

And as, in all well-conducted lives, the hard work, and roughing, and gaining of strength come first, the honor or decoration in certain intervals during their course, but most of all in their close, so, in general, the base of the wall, which is its beginning of labor, will bear least decoration, its body more, especially those epochs of rest called its string courses; but its crown or cornice most of all.
— from The Stones of Venice, Volume 1 (of 3) by John Ruskin