The drawing-room or wherever the ceremony is to be performed is often decorated with pots of pale pink roses, or daisies, or branches of dogwood or white lilacs.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

The family history has to be gleaned from partially preserved parochial registers of births, marriages and deaths, incomplete court records, the scanty papers of the estates, a few land transfers, and some stray writings that accidentally have been preserved with the latter.
— from Lineage, Life and Labors of José Rizal, Philippine Patriot by Austin Craig

The rebellious Burgundians (for they attempted to break their chains) were still permitted to enjoy their national laws under the obligation of tribute and military service; and the Merovingian princes peaceably reigned over a kingdom, whose glory and greatness had been first overthrown by the arms of Clovis.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

I don’t understand why Christian piety permits robbery on this night—and you, the authorities, allow it—and I fear for my books.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

Algunos países establecen que todo extranjero que ejerce algún oficio o profesión, o que posee propiedad raíz o capital en giro, es considerado ciudadano, a menos que aquél manifieste su propósito de conservar su nacionalidad original.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

In answer to their inquiry he showed them a clause in the deed which provided that they were to keep the house insured for one thousand dollars, as soon as the present policy ran out, which would happen in a few days.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

9. "Publicly Perform" means to perform public recitations of the Work and to communicate to the public those public recitations, by any means or process, including by wire or wireless means or public digital performances; to make available to the public Works in such a way that members of the public may access these Works from a place and at a place individually chosen by them; to perform the Work to the public by any means or process and the communication to the public of the performances of the Work, including by public digital performance; to broadcast and rebroadcast the Work by any means including signs, sounds or images.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

"Charlotte and I too," her father had gaily proceeded, "perfectly rub on together."
— from The Golden Bowl — Volume 2 by Henry James

The Red Bird of Paradise (Paradisea rubra of Viellot), though allied to the two birds already described, is much more distinct from them than they are from each other.
— from The Malay Archipelago, Volume 2 The Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise; A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature by Alfred Russel Wallace

Then the House of Commons voted, "that towards raising the supply, and reimbursing to the public the great expenses occasioned by the late rebellions and disorders, the sum of one hundred thousand pounds be raised and levied upon the real and personal estates of {216} all Papists, Popish recusants, or persons educated in the Popish religion, or whose parents are Papists, or who shall profess the Popish religion, in lieu of all forfeitures already incurred for or upon account of their recusancy."
— from A History of the Four Georges, Volume I by Justin McCarthy

This person had been to England, and preserved pleased recollections of London " half-and-half " which he seemed to consider little short of nectar, and was astonished at my ignorance when, appealed to, I was obliged to plead guilty of not being acquainted with its virtues.
— from Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre by Louisa Stuart Costello

" A pleasing prose rendering of the chief incidents of the story, more difficult than the preceding.
— from Special Method in the Reading of Complete English Classics In the Grades of the Common School by Charles A. (Charles Alexander) McMurry

I do further declare, that I will help, assist, and advise all, or any of his holiness' agents in any place, wherever I shall be, in England, Scotland and Ireland, or in any other territory or kingdom, I shall come to; and do my utmost to extirpate the heretical Protestants' doctrine, and to destroy all their pretending powers, regal or otherwise .
— from Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete by William Hogan

Add to these circumstances the wild and beautiful Sicilian scenery, and where can there be found more perfect landscapes in the works, which these pictures peculiarly resemble, of Vernet or Gainsborough?
— from The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 Poetry - Volume 1 by Alexander Pope

For I love to put people right (or wrong) about the arts.
— from The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 1 by Robert Louis Stevenson

E. H. JONES’S PARAPHRASE Popular Romances of the Middle Ages.
— from The Translations of Beowulf: A Critical Bibliography by Chauncey Brewster Tinker

This rather thickset, more plainly plumaged relative of the common Blue Jay of Pennsylvania, visited Pennsylvania for the same reason as the Moose, the extreme cold weather in the North.
— from The Black Moose in Pennsylvania by Henry W. Shoemaker