[Page 240] at euerie alienation 1800 ducats at the least, but in my time it paieth vnto hir maiesties cofers 768 pounds, ten shillings, ten pence, halfe penie, farthing.
— from Holinshed Chronicles: England, Scotland, and Ireland. Volume 1, Complete by William Harrison

For if record be of anie sufficient credit, it is little aboue the value of foure hundred fiftie and seauen pounds, one shilling, and ten pence farthing, in our time, and so it paieth vnto hir maiesties coffers; but in time past I thinke it was farre better.
— from Holinshed Chronicles: England, Scotland, and Ireland. Volume 1, Complete by William Harrison

The French minister declared to the diet, that the proceedings of his Prussian majesty having disclosed to the world the project concerted between that prince and tie king of England, to excite in the empire a religious war which might be favourable to their particular views, his most christian majesty, in consequence of his engagement with the empress-queen, and many other princes of the empire, being resolved to succour them in the most efficacious manner, would forthwith send such a number of troops to their aid, as might be thought necessary to preserve the liberty of the Germanic body.
— from The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. Continued from the Reign of William and Mary to the Death of George II. by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Pope Pius V. had made Cosmo de’ Medici, the ruler of Florence, a Grand Duke, and Philip of Spain and Maximilian of Austria had protested.
— from A History of the Reformation (Vol. 2 of 2) by Thomas M. (Thomas Martin) Lindsay

On the Sabbath morning she asked to have a number of the tracts entitled “Immanuel’s Land” laid upon her table, so that every person visiting her might carry away one.
— from Model Women by William Anderson

No characteristic of the young kingbirds was more winning than their confiding and unsuspicious reception of strangers, for so soon as they began to frequent other trees than the one the paternal vigilance had made comparatively sacred to them, they were the subjects of attention.
— from Little Brothers of the Air by Olive Thorne Miller

— viti : see n. on 1 , l 3 praemi Viti here = mali ; cf.
— from Cato Maior de Senectute with Introduction and Notes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Casseopia, Red and white, bred by S. T. Taber , Chestnut Ridge, Duchess County, N. Y.; property of Rev. A. P. Viets , Hancock, Mass.: calved April 9th, 1857; got by Highflyer, * 37, 578, Dam Jeannette, by Backwoodsman, 226,— 2d dam Jane, by Young Magog, (2247) 3d—Laura, by Budget, (1759) 4th—Strawberry, by Sandœ, (2598) 5th—Old Red Rose, by Copeland, (1871) 6th—Grey Hook, by Marquis, (407).
— from Herd Record of the Association of Breeders of Thorough-Bred Neat Stock Short Horns, Ayrshires and Devons by Various