Before the embargo was laid, agricultural labor in the British West India islands, particularly on sugar estates, could scarcely support itself.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 4 (of 16) by United States. Congress

We made a very short stay here, as we wanted to reach Cettigne before the middle of the day; so having partaken of some excellent coffee, served up with toast and such clotted cream as I never before tasted out of Devonshire, and having admired the gorgeous arms which hung round young Petrovich's room, each of which had some story attached to it, all being trophies taken in battle from the Turks, we mounted our horses, and again plunging into a ravine recommenced the difficult ascent.
— from Rambles in Istria, Dalmatia and Montenegro by R. H. R.

Before leaving Dublin, Kildare had taken the precaution of seeing each Councillor separately and binding him by oath to write in his favour.
— from Ireland under the Tudors, with a Succinct Account of the Earlier History. Vol. 1 (of 3) by Richard Bagwell

Surface minutely roughened; mouths several, appressed fibrillose, round, plain or slightly elevated; columellæ several, filiform, probably the same in number as the pedicels; spores globose, roughened, 3–6 mc.; capillitium simple, unbranched, long, tapering, about half diameter of spores.
— from The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard

"Poor old soul!" exclaimed Charley softly.
— from The Forbidden Trail by Honoré Morrow

'It is not likely that Emmeline Mowbray could forge such papers, or should even conceive such an idea.'
— from Emmeline, the Orphan of the Castle by Charlotte Smith