Just as interesting are the results of procedure, especially certain statistical results.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

For example, the Indians of Peru employed certain stones for the increase of maize, others for the increase of potatoes, and others again for the increase of cattle.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Venezuela Analítica, an electronic magazine conceived as a public forum to exchange ideas on politics, economics, culture, science and technology, created in May 1997 BitBlioteca, a digital library which contains material mostly in Spanish, and also in French, English and Portuguese.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

And as I cannot choose but condole their mishap that labour of this infirmity, and are destitute of help in this case, so must I needs inveigh against them that are in fault, more than manifest causes, and as bitterly tax those tyrannising pseudopoliticians, superstitious orders, rash vows, hard-hearted parents, guardians, unnatural friends, allies, (call them how you will,) those careless and stupid overseers, that out of worldly respects, covetousness, supine negligence, their own private ends ( cum sibi sit interim bene ) can so severely reject, stubbornly neglect, and impiously contemn, without all remorse and pity, the tears, sighs, groans, and grievous miseries of such poor souls committed to their charge.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

In the days of public executions, criminals sometimes elected to wear fashionable garments, and in consequence the demand for them ceased.
— from The Heritage of Dress: Being Notes on the History and Evolution of Clothes by Wilfred Mark Webb

Transcriber’s Note: Obvious printer errors corrected silently.
— from Rock-climbing in the English Lake District Third Edition by Owen Glynne Jones

At first the English people under their Norman kings were no freer than other peoples: England contained serfs and even slaves.
— from The Mentor: The Cradle of Liberty, Vol. 6, Num. 10, Serial No. 158, July 1, 1918 by Albert Bushnell Hart

Obvious printer errors corrected silently.
— from The Legislative Manual, of the State of Colorado Comprising the History of Colorado, Annals of the Legislature, Manual of Customs, Precedents and Forms, Rules of Parliamentary Parliamentary Practice, and the Constitutions of the United States and the History of Colorado, Annals of the Legislature, Manual of Customs, Precedents and Forms, Rules of Parliamentary Practice, and the Constitutions of the United States and the State of Colorado. Also, Chronological Table of American History, Lists and Tables for Reference, Biographies, Etc. by Thomas B. Corbett

I absolutely dreaded to meet my brother officers; I felt that in such a position as I stood, no half or partial explanation could suffice to set me right in their estimation; and yet, what opportunity had I for aught else?
— from Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 1 by Charles James Lever

Side by side they strolled over the lawns of Pendarrel, enjoying converse such as is only derided by the unhappy wights who have never shared it.
— from Trevethlan: A Cornish Story. Volume 3 (of 3) by William Davy Watson

When the king was served, the merchants went on with their sales, and in a few weeks sold more goods than would have sufficed to purchase loading for both ships, yet we only brought away from thence 276 bags of pepper, each containing sixty-two pounds.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 by Robert Kerr