In [ 323 ] mediæval times, many Vāriyar families received royal edicts, conferring upon them the privileges of being tutors and astrologers.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

The extra front on the drawer with rounded edges covers up the joints around front of box, and is a purely ornamental feature.
— from Carpentry and Woodwork by Edwin W. Foster

After describing in detail the system of semi-peonage created by the merciless exactions of lawyers and petty court officials, and the insatiable greed of "these cursed hungry caterpillars," Sims with rude eloquence calls upon the people to pull them down from their nests for the salvation of the Commonwealth.
— from The Conquest of the Old Southwest; the romantic story of the early pioneers into Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky, 1740-1790 by Archibald Henderson

We were at a loss to know what to do, for we had no means of knowing how far the Germans had penetrated our lines; but we knew that if their first wave of reinforcements ever came up, they would surely get us, so there seemed to be just one thing to do, and that was to make a dash for our supports—the Germans who had come over were taking what shelter they could in the shell holes, but they were lying as low as possible, on account of the fierceness of our shell fire.
— from Into the Jaws of Death by Jack O'Brien

[135] And he that shall hatch the little seeds, either found in small webs, or white round Egges, carried under the bellies of some Spiders, and behold how at their first production in boxes, they will presently fill the same with their webbs, may observe the early, and untaught finger of nature, and how they are natively provided with a stock, sufficient for such Texture.
— from The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, Volume 3 by Browne, Thomas, Sir

In Amphioxus the respiratory region extends close up to the opening of the hepatic diverticulum, and therefore to a position corresponding with the commencement of the intestine in higher types.
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 3 (of 4) A Treatise on Comparative Embryology: Vertebrata by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour

Besides, industry rises and falls among nations by a thousand revolutions: Et campus ubi Troja fuit.
— from A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 01 by Voltaire

Before his visit was over, a note came down on gold-edged, cyphered pink paper, informing the Reverend E. C. Underwood that Mrs. Campbell was much obliged to him for his attention to her son, who was very unwell, entirely from the effects of clotted cream.
— from The Long Vacation by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

"Let me slide, too?" asked Ruth Ellis, coming up to them after the twins had been enjoying their slide for a few minutes.
— from Four Little Blossoms and Their Winter Fun by Mabel C. Hawley

Beginning with our first meeting, I related every circumstance up to the last hours.
— from The Dead Lake, and Other Tales by Paul Heyse