Although these collections do not embrace the costly decorated fabrics, yet much can be learned from them, and the combinations of colour are always harmonious.
— from Principles of Decorative Design Fourth Edition by Christopher Dresser

Such duties may, however, be levied on goods coming from elsewhere than Egyptian territory; but in the case of goods entering the Soudan at Suakin, or any other port on the Red Sea Littoral, they shall not exceed the corresponding duties for the time being leviable on goods entering Egypt from abroad.
— from The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan by Winston Churchill

in a free country, where the railways were not run for the convenience of passengers, but the passengers necessary evils to create dividends for an ill-managed company.
— from Mrs. Craddock by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

The defeat of the Helvetii and Ariovistus: 58 B. C. In 58 B. C. , when Caesar entered upon his Gallic command, the Roman province in Transalpine Gaul ( Gallia Narbonensis ) embraced the coast districts from the Alps to the borders of Spain and the land between the [pg 168] Alps and the Rhone as far north as Lake Geneva.
— from A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Arthur E. R. (Arthur Edward Romilly) Boak

This compost ought to be made under cover, lest the rain leach out the constituents of the mixture, and thus occasion loss; at the end of a month or more, the muck in the compost will have been reduced to a fine pulverulent mass, nearly equal to charcoal dust for application to animal excrement.
— from The Elements of Agriculture A Book for Young Farmers, with Questions Prepared for the Use of Schools by George E. (George Edwin) Waring

They strove to be patient and hopeful: if they could not eat, they could drink, for the nights were dewy, and sometimes a mist covered them, a mist so dense it seemed almost to drip from the rags that poorly sheltered them.
— from Summer Cruising in the South Seas by Charles Warren Stoddard

As a matter of course the inquisitor who acted as prosecutor did not enter the consulta de fe and vote on the fate of the accused whom he had prosecuted.
— from A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 2 by Henry Charles Lea

Not hardships nor disgrace at home; not favour nor success abroad; not even time, can drive from his mind the land of his birth or the friends of his youthful days.
— from Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. 1 (of 2) by John L. Stephens

We have now examined the consuetudines due from those 'qui vendere non potuerunt', and may turn to the rights exercised over the other class.
— from Feudal England: Historical Studies on the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries by John Horace Round