It is drawn, of net, blond, and silk; the edge of the poke has a roll of silk; above and below there is a transparent width of net, about two inches deep, and two blond frills drawn shell-shape.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various

I felt a peculiar heat, a revulsion of shame and indignation, which made the present seem much more important than the past.
— from Desert Dust by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin

They took off the skin and went to the house of Hreidmar, who recognised the skin and bade them pay him a ransom of so much gold as should cover the skin as it stood upright.
— from Richard Wagner His Life and His Dramas A Biographical Study of the Man and an Explanation of His Work by W. J. (William James) Henderson

But Hudson, in his Treatise of the Court of Star-chamber , written about the end of James's reign, inclines to think that all peers had a right of sitting in the court of star-chamber; there being several instances where some who were not of the council of state were present and gave judgment, as in the case of Mr. Davison, "and how they were complete judges unsworn, if not by their native right, I cannot comprehend; for surely the calling of them in that case was not made legitimate by any act of parliament; neither without their right were they more apt to be judges than any other inferior persons in the kingdom; and yet I doubt
— from Constitutional History of England, Henry VII to George II. Volume 1 of 3 by Henry Hallam

No bustle to-day as in England, as we have no Game Laws, and the time of sporting lasts from the 1st of January to the last day of December; as every person has a right of sporting, on all unenclosed land, for all sorts of wild animals {285} and game, without any licence or qualification 341 as to property.
— from Hulme's Journal, 1818-19; Flower's Letters from Lexington and the Illinois, 1819; Flower's Letters from the Illinois, 1820-21; and Woods's Two Years' Residence, 1820-21 by John Woods

As he reviewed the incidents of the past hours, a reaction of self-derision came to his aid.
— from The Fruit of the Tree by Edith Wharton

Poljensio had a row of scars on one leg, where a shark had bitten him, years before, which made the leg look as if it had been between the bars of a giant’s broiling iron.
— from Anting-Anting Stories, and Other Strange Tales of the Filipinos by Sargent Kayme