His loyalty to the crown involved him in trouble several times, but he died in 1802 leaving property, then a large amount to George Jaffrey Jeffries, on condition that "he should drop the name of Jeffries; become a permanent resident of Portsmouth, and never follow any profession except that of being a gentleman."
— from The Loyalists of Massachusetts and the Other Side of the American Revolution by James Henry Stark

I stay within doors for days together, without pleasure or profit, reading old plays and novels which I throw aside, or putting a few stitches into useless tambour work; I who could formerly not live a day within doors, nor do whatever I set to do without childish strenuousness!
— from Penelope Brandling: A Tale of the Welsh coast in the Eighteenth Century by Vernon Lee

Perfect rights of possession are not at all incompatible with enjoyment by the people.
— from The Hills and the Vale by Richard Jefferies

If further examination shall establish our result, we have in the form of grayish-white acicular crystals a substance which stands to cannabis in nearly the same proportional relation of potency as niorphia to opium, and this most powerful remedy can be given as easily and certainly as any in the pharmacopoeia.
— from The Opium Habit by Horace B. Day

Though I have no decisive fact to quote at present, I cannot refrain from venturing an opinion, that the effect is analogous both to combination and convection (1623.), being a case of carrying due to the relation of the diaphragm and the fluid in contact with it, through which the electric discharge is jointly effected; and further, that the peculiar relation of positive and negative small and large surfaces already referred to (1482.
— from Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 by Michael Faraday

He had, therefore, come environed by his pompous retinue of prelates and nobles, and with his silver pillars and crosses, his maces, his poleaxes, his hat and Great Seal borne before him.
— from Cassell's History of England, Vol. 2 (of 8) From the Wars of the Roses to the Great Rebellion by Anonymous

And because such forraigne Tobacco, may not be received and uttered, under the pretence of the Tobacco of the growth of Virginia, the Summer-Ilands, and other Colonies and Plantations, under and within His Majesties owne Dominions, nor the Planters, Owners, or Adventurers, of, and in these Plantations, give themselves over to the planting of Tobacco onely, to make a present returne of profit, and neglect to applie themselves to solide Commodities fit for the establishing of Colonies, which will utterly destroy these and all other Plantations; His Majestie doth further will and command, that from henceforth no Tobacco of the growth of Virginia, the Summer-Ilands, or any other Plantations, or Colonies, of, or within His owne Dominions, bee imported into these his Realmes or Dominions, or any the Ports, Havens, Creekes, or places thereof, without His Majesties especiall licence in that behalfe, under the great Seale of England, and that upon the importation thereof, the same bee delivered into the hands of such Commissioners, for his Majesties owne immediate use, as His Majestie under His great Seale of England shal appoint, at, and for such Prices and Rates to be paid for the same, as shall be reasonable agreed upon, betweene the Owners or Factors of the same, and the Kings Commissioners on His Majesties behalfe, or if they shall not agree thereon, then to be transported againe, and sold elsewhere, upon paine of confiscation and forfeiture thereof, and upon further paines and penalties, as by the Law, or His Majesties Prerogative Royall may be inflicted upon them.
— from British Royal Proclamations Relating to America, 1603-1783 by Great Britain. Sovereign