Here stock ramble to graze with their bells on, presenting a rural landscape of rustic life, and tired, bony old horses stray for sustenance; hogs, with very thin sides and bristling backs, root about for herbage, or roam through the streets, gathering, with eager haste, any thing like a decayed apple or potato, of which some kind-hearted huckster has relieved his stall or cart; while the cows wander in front of dry-goods stores, trying to replenish the well-springs of vitality with stray wisps of straw, bits of paper, or pasteboard, which have been swept out.
— from Petals Plucked from Sunny Climes by A. M. (Abbie M.) Brooks

Although the immediate vicinity of Winnipeg is able to show such a profusion and variety of colour, the entire Province of Mani {198} toba, together with Saskatchewan and Alberta, produces a riotous line of romance equal to these nearer roads or any of the older Canadian Provincial gardens.
— from Romantic Canada by Victoria Hayward

Those initiated learned in those profound sanctuaries, under the dark and deep veil of fables, their duties towards their fellow men; pretended duties which they were taught to the gods, and, more unfortunately yet, pretended duties towards their political and religious leaders, or rather tyrants.
— from Pagan Origin of Partialist Doctrines by John Claudius Pitrat

A better method is to produce a raised line or rim to retain the glaze, and this is the method we will use in the cement or concrete pottery.
— from Color Cement Handicraft by Pedro J. (Pedro Joseph) Lemos