The conquest of Port Royal, or Annapolis Royal completed by the British and colonial forces under colonel Nicholson. 1711.
— from The Every Day Book of History and Chronology Embracing the Anniversaries of Memorable Persons and Events in Every Period and State of the World, from the Creation to the Present Time by Joel Munsell

Fortunately for Marcus, the indestructible privilege of the divina domus exalted it so unapproachably beyond all competition, that no possible remissions of aulic rigor could ever be misinterpreted; fear there could be none, lest such paternal indulgences should lose their effect and acceptation as pure condescensions.
— from The Caesars by Thomas De Quincey

Brimful of hate and envy towards the aristocracy of Great Britain, these men are determined to leave no stone unturned whereby they may scramble upwards into power; and they calculate on the possible reconstruction of a Russell Cabinet as their most probable means of ascent.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 71, No. 438, April 1852 by Various

He has just published “Rhymes of a Red Cross Man,”—war poems, needless to say.
— from Over Periscope Pond Letters from Two American Girls in Paris October 1916-January 1918 by Esther Sayles Root

It seems to us to illustrate, with much naïveté , the tendency of both Catholic and Protestant Orthodoxy, to put right opinion above right conduct.
— from Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by James Freeman Clarke

A specimen rock from near Pelican rapids on Athabaska river contained 12.4% of metallic iron.
— from The Unexploited West A Compilation of all of the authentic information available at the present time as to the Natural Resources of the Unexploited Regions of Northern Canada by Ernest J. Chambers

The private rights of a Roman citizen were (1) the power of legal marriage with the families of all other citizens; (2) the power of making legal purchases and sales, and of holding property; and (3) the right to bequeath and inherit property.
— from Outlines of Universal History, Designed as a Text-book and for Private Reading by George Park Fisher

“Has it perhaps struck you, as his friend, that—er—a close daily association with the psychic remnant of a Roman citizen might conceivably be non-conducive to his best interest?”
— from Average Jones by Samuel Hopkins Adams