The chief characters are: Habrocomes of Ephesus, the handsome hero Anthia of Ephesus, the beautiful heroine Apsyrtos , a pirate chieftain Manto , the daughter of Apsyrtos Moeris , a Syrian, husband of Manto Lampon , a goatherd, slave of Manto Hippothoos , a brigand Perilaos , a high police official of Cilicia Eudoxos , a physician Psammis , a rajah of India Araxos , an old soldier in Egypt Cyno , his wicked wife Aegialeus , a Syracusan who kept a mummy Polyidos , a captain in Egypt Rhenaea , his jealous wife A procurer of Taras Leucon , a male slave of Habrocomes and Anthia Rhode , a female slave, his wife 42 In Ephesus lived a lad named Habrocomes who was sixteen years old.
— from Essays on the Greek Romances by Elizabeth Hazelton Haight

Now, since improvements enable a much poorer quality of land to be ultimately cultivated, under the constant pressure of the increase of population and capital, improvements enable rent (3) in the end to rise gradually to a much higher limit than it could otherwise have attained.
— from Principles of Political Economy Abridged with Critical, Bibliographical, and Explanatory Notes, and a Sketch of the History of Political Economy by John Stuart Mill

The storm was still blowing when he reached the far edge of the plain, and came into extremely rough country, with patches of low, thorny forest.
— from The Texan Star: The Story of a Great Fight for Liberty by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

If we make a wire cage, in the form of a regular tetrahedron, and dip it into soap-solution, then when we withdraw it we see that to each one of the six edges of the tetrahedron, i.e. to each one of the six wires which constitute the little cage, a film has attached itself; and these six films meet internally at a point, and constitute in every respect the symmetrical figure which we have just been describing.
— from On Growth and Form by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

At the top landing is posted a cock in effigy, representing the one that crowed witness to Peter's denial.
— from Spanish Vistas by George Parsons Lathrop

The settlements at the Derwent and Port Dalrymple, though situated in a colder climate, and therefore in all probability not equally congenial to the growth of fine wool, afford the same excellent pasture, and contain in every respect besides, the same facilities for the rearing of Spanish sheep, whose fleeces it is reasonable to expect on comparing the climate of these settlements, with that of Saxony, would not degenerate, if the same system which prevails in that country were followed in the management of sheep in this.
— from Statistical, Historical and Political Description of the Colony of New South Wales and its Dependent Settlements in Van Diemen's Land With a Particular Enumeration of the Advantages Which These Colonies Offer for Emigration, and Their Superiority in Many Respects Over Those Possessed by the United States of America by W. C. (William Charles) Wentworth

It is often a narrow porch or shed with pent roof, rarely, if ever, possessing a ceiling; its exposed rafters are blackened by the smoke, which finds egress through a scuttle, through which often comes the only light that illuminates the dim interior.
— from Japanese Homes and Their Surroundings by Edward Sylvester Morse

The place also corresponded in every respect with the traditions respecting the murder: [156] it was said to have been done in the Bloody Tower—the spot where the bones were found is but seventy yards distant; they were always said to have been buried in consecrated ground by the Priest of the Tower—the place where the remains were was just within S. John’s Chapel.
— from Sir Christopher Wren: His Family and His Times With Original Letters and a Discourse on Architecture Hitherto Unpublished. 1585-1723. by Lucy Phillimore