Mary's privy-council, on the other hand, found it necessary to address a remonstrance to the president of the North, respecting certain players, servants to sir Francis Lake, who had gone about the country representing pieces in ridicule of the king and queen and the formalities of the mass; and the design of the proclamation of Elizabeth was rendered evident by a solemn enactment of heavy penalties against such as should abuse the Common-prayer in any interludes, songs, or rhymes [42] .
— from Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Lucy Aikin

It has often happened that wealth has been acquired, lost friends restored, estates bought and sold, etc., entirely through accidental meetings on the road.
— from Road Scrapings: Coaches and Coaching by M. E. (Martin E.) Haworth

Admitting its justice in part, perhaps I may shield myself from its remaining excess by a slight explanation.
— from Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by Nathaniel Parker Willis

Arnheim possesses several other religious edifices; but, as satisfactory expressions of ecclesiastical art or architecture, they are quite unworthy.
— from The Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

[963] There was evidently no recognized exemption but a steady effort to establish one, while the familiars complained that the hatred felt for them led to their being oppressed with billets when others went free.
— from A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 1 by Henry Charles Lea

The glass disks within are rotated either by a small electric motor shown on the floor, or by a hand crank above.
— from The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century. by Edward W. (Edward Wright) Byrn

They are restless, easily bored, and spontaneously experimental.
— from The Mind in the Making: The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform by James Harvey Robinson