Jolter looked jest a mossel disgusted, and turned a bit rusty, for him , When we made the punt rock in our romps, which he said was "disturbing the swim."
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93. July 30, 1887 by Various

It had been already plainly intimated, that the property of the clerical orders ought to be subject, as well as all other species of property, to the exigencies of the state; and the philosophical opinions which had impugned their principles of faith, and rendered their persons ridiculous instead of reverend, would, it was to be feared, induce those by whom they were entertained, to extend their views to a general seizure of the whole, instead of a part, of the Church's wealth.
— from Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume I. by Walter Scott

In my room the negro, with the danzon, faded from my mind; and I only paused to speculate dimly about his overwhelming preference, where a choice existed, for the Protestant religions instead of Roman Catholicism.
— from San Cristóbal de la Habana by Joseph Hergesheimer

This military station is in the midst of the thickly populated province of Behar, between Bengal and Oude; a province rich in opium, rice, and indigo plantations, and inhabited chiefly by a class of Hindoos less warlike than those towards the west.
— from The History of the Indian Revolt and of the Expeditions to Persia, China and Japan, 1856-7-8 by George Dodd

[Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Idaho, and Kansas], but also in twenty-three other states, in which women are without political rights in other respects.
— from The Modern Woman's Rights Movement: A Historical Survey by Käthe Schirmacher

The social condition of Germany may be partially realized if one remembers that the death-rate was over 28 per mille , as compared with 17 per mille to-day; that only a start had been made with railway construction; that the country, with its not very generous soil, depended wholly upon agriculture; that savings-bank deposits were not one-twelfth of what they are now; that there were 60 training schools where there are 221 to-day, and 338 evening classes as against 4,588 in 1910; that many of the principal towns were still lighted by oil; that there was practically no navy; and that the bulk of the aristocracy lived on about the same scale as the contemporary English yeoman farmer.
— from William of Germany by Stanley Shaw

The motives to the former show how untrue to the real nature of the difference between the two social institutions it is to speak of the contrast between mother -right and father -right , or even between maternal rule and paternal rule , instead of referring to the transition as one from maternal descent to paternal descent .
— from Elements of Folk Psychology Outline of a Psychological History of the Development of Mankind by Wilhelm Max Wundt