Other fruits become ripe at other seasons, as the motsikiri, which yields an oil, and is a magnificent tree, bearing masses of dark evergreen leaves; so that, from the general plenty, one can readily believe the statement made by the Batoka.
— from Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa by David Livingstone

Care for the means of daily existence, like creeping poison, unnerves the population.
— from Germany from the Earliest Period, Volume 4 by Wolfgang Menzel

One April day, amid sunshine and rain, that man of dark eyes, lofty brow, and proud stature, the magnificent Danton, walked up the fatal steps and knelt down to [Pg 138] death.
— from Paris: With Pen and Pencil Its People and Literature, Its Life and Business by D. W. (David W.) Bartlett

He thus travelled through Camelford, still inquiring "Mais où donc est Landéglo juxtà Camélvore?"
— from Cornish Characters and Strange Events by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

" The great hospital at Siena was rebuilt in honor of Catherine shortly after her death because of the fact that she had spent many years of her comparatively brief life there; she died at thirty-two in personal service of all kinds to the patients suffering from every manner of disease, even leprosy, who were in the institution.
— from Religion And Health by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

The iron mines of Dannemora, eleven leagues from Upsal, contain a large quantity of ice, according to a manuscript account by Mr. Over-assessor-of-the-board-of-mines Winkler: [164] Jars, however, in his Voyages Métallurgiques , [165] gives a full description of them without mentioning the existence of ice.
— from Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland by G. F. (George Forrest) Browne

Every night for about a month she has to lie on a steam bed made of damped eucalyptus leaves.
— from The Euahlayi Tribe: A Study of Aboriginal Life in Australia by K. Langloh (Katie Langloh) Parker

Before Kenyon had been many minutes on deck, Edith Longworth came up the companion-way.
— from A Woman Intervenes by Robert Barr

It is of bold, wide-spreading growth 6 to 8 feet high, and the masses of dark evergreen leaves serve admirably as a setting to the clusters of orange-coloured blossoms which are at their best in May.
— from Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens by E. T. (Ernest Thomas) Cook