Queen Eleanor, a cultivated, intelligent, and educated lady from the continent, fostered culture and rewarded individual literary efforts, such as translations from Latin, with grants of her own money.
— from Our Legal Heritage: King AEthelbert - King George III, 600 A.D. - 1776 by S. A. Reilly

That's one reason I like Europe so—it's quiet and peaceful.
— from Seeing France with Uncle John by Anne Warner

But it was never intended to apply to a case of this kind, where the commission was issued by the authorities of the land in which the parties receiving it live, exercising sway and dominion over them, whether de jure or de facto .
— from Trial of the Officers and Crew of the Privateer Savannah, on the Charge of Piracy, in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York by A. F. (Adolphus Frederick) Warburton

They might be the very men who are guilty of my poor brother’s—” “That’s jest what this coon thort, an it war for that reezun I let ’em slide.
— from The Headless Horseman: A Strange Tale of Texas by Mayne Reid

After the triumphal send-off in New York, the splendid isolation of the voyage and his reception in Liverpool, Eric subsided gratefully into the tranquillity of Lashmar Mill-House.
— from The Secret Victory by Stephen McKenna

They had now been roughing it long enough so that they had become really expert in the work.
— from The Pony Rider Boys in the Ozarks; Or, The Secret of Ruby Mountain by Frank Gee Patchin

“I am sincerely rejoiced,” interposed Lady Eleanor, smiling, “that my English relative, Lord Netherby, was not a witness to this discussion, lest he should fancy that, between the wastefulness of the South and the thrift of the North, this poor island was but ill provided with a gentry.
— from The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Charles James Lever

Whatever good may have been accomplished in other directions by the crusades, agriculture reached its lowest ebb, save in those instances where the culture of the soil received attention from monastic institutions.
— from Inventions in the Century by William Henry Doolittle