Mix to a cream with 1/2 pound sugar, add little mace, stir in gradually yolk of 6 eggs and 1/2 beaten whites, 10 ounces flour, beat well for 1 minute, add 1 pound raisins, 1/4 pound citron, cut very fine, grated rind of 1 lemon, and 2 ounces chopped almonds.
— from The Story of Crisco by Marion Harris Neil

Her managers followed "The Eternal City" with Hall Caine's "Prodigal Son," and lost mighty sums upon it.
— from The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 3 May 1906 by Various

The blacks as they paddled sang a low monotonous song, more like a dirge.
— from The Two Supercargoes; Or, Adventures in Savage Africa by William Henry Giles Kingston

Take half a pound of Jordan almonds, blanch and beat them with a little rose-water, but not over small; take a pound of beef-suet shred very fine, half a pound of apples shred small, a pound of currans well cleaned, half a pound of powder sugar, a little mace shred fine, about a quarter of a pound of candid orange cut in small pieces, a spoonful or two of brandy, and a little salt, so mix them well together, and bake it in a puff-paste.
— from English Housewifery Exemplified in above Four Hundred and Fifty Receipts Giving Directions for most Parts of Cookery by Elizabeth Moxon

Thou knowest I a love might bring By none beside me due; One praiseful song at least might sing Which could not but be new.
— from The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 1 by George MacDonald