For all imported foreign articles, such as clothes, stores, wines, etc., you must give enough in silver dollars to make up the price as reckoned at home, that is, in gold, and as you now have to give three times as many dollars for a sovereign as formerly your imported goods are three times dearer, or, in other words, the value of silver has fallen and its purchasing power is very much less than it used to be the whole world over.
— from Life and sport in China Second Edition by Oliver George Ready

I have read many seriously written appreciations of Japanese paintings published in various modern languages, and even some amiable imaginings penned for foreigners by Japanese who fancy they know by instinct what only can be acquired after long study and practice with brush in hand.
— from On the Laws of Japanese Painting: An Introduction to the Study of the Art of Japan by Henry P. Bowie

Unto my plaintive pleas in verses made: Tho would I seeke for Queene-apples unrype, To give my Rosalind; and in Sommer shade
— from Pastoral Poetry & Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England by W. W. (Walter Wilson) Greg

Post-mortem Appearances in Man—Illustrative Pathological Preparations in Various Museums, 549 - 551 734.
— from Poisons, Their Effects and Detection A Manual for the Use of Analytical Chemists and Experts by Alexander Wynter Blyth

[277] Plot, Plutarchus in vitam , M. Antonii .
— from Momus Triumphans: or, the Plagiaries of the English Stage (1688[1687]) by Gerard Langbaine

Practica P. IV. V. (MSS.
— from A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea

And here I bring to a close this imperfect notice of one of the greatest men of modern times,--hardly for lack of sufficient material, but because it is hard to find a proper perspective in viewing matters which are still the subject of heated contest and turmoil.
— from Beacon Lights of History, Volume 10: European Leaders by John Lord

Then couth I sing of love, and tune my pipe Unto my plaintive pleas in verses made; Then would I seek for queen-apples unripe; To give my Rosalind, and in summer shade Dight gaudy garlands was my common trade, To crown her golden locks; but years more ripe, And loss of her, whose love as life I weigh'd, Those weary wanton toys away did wipe. HOB.
— from The Shepheard's Calender: Twelve Aeglogues Proportionable to the Twelve Monethes by Edmund Spenser

The marine was the principal point in view: M. Rouillé had hastily got together a little fleet, which, putting to sea, gave no small umbrage to the English.
— from Memoirs of the Marchioness of Pompadour (vol. 1 of 2) by Pompadour, Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, marquise de