Roger of Wendover, editorial references to, 252 n., 321 n. Roman Law, 52 .
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

So that equality of proportion should be avoided except on those rare occasions when effects remote from nature and life are desired.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

Had they been Jesuits, it is ten to one they had remained and spent their lives `indoctrinating', for the Jesuits alone of all the religious Orders were ever ready to take every risk.
— from A Vanished Arcadia: Being Some Account of the Jesuits in Paraguay 1607-1767 by R. B. (Robert Bontine) Cunninghame Graham

Thence they were removed to Richmond, occupying, while en route , the prisons of a half-dozen Rebel cities.
— from Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field: Southern Adventure in Time of War. Life with the Union Armies, and Residence on a Louisiana Plantation by Thomas Wallace Knox

The man who has a spark of enterprise would turn from a river of which every reach was mapped and its channels all lettered.
— from A Thousand Miles in the Rob Roy Canoe on Rivers and Lakes of Europe by John MacGregor

One of the saddest cases was that of Royse Oatman, who, en route with his large family, was massacred (1851) on the spot now known as Oatman's Flat, not far below the great bend of the Gila.
— from The Romance of the Colorado River The Story of its Discovery in 1840, with an Account of the Later Explorations, and with Special Reference to the Voyages of Powell through the Line of the Great Canyons by Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh

Tuan, Prince, characteristic action of (1900), ii. 437 ; progeny of, not in the succession, ii. 456 ; relations of, with Empress Regent obscure, ii. 460 . Tun, Prince, imperial claims of son of, ii. 263 ; grandson of, nominated heir-apparent, ii. 460 .
— from The Englishman in China During the Victorian Era, Vol. 2 (of 2) As Illustrated in the Career of Sir Rutherford Alcock, K.C.B., D.C.L., Many Years Consul and Minister in China and Japan by Alexander Michie

Acre by acre, tree by tree, it has gone to pay for my experiments, not in agriculture but in pleasure; and whenever I look over at it from Venice and reflect on what each rood of ground or trunk of tree has purchased, I wonder to see my life as bare as ever for all that I have spent on it.
— from The Valley of Decision by Edith Wharton

And certainly the first impression made by these two goodly volumes is a very favorable one; for, making due allowance for the music scattered through them with not too lavish a hand, by way of examples, we have still some six hundred solid pages of reading matter,—space enough in which to answer many a vexed question, clear up many a dark point, give us the results of widely extended researches, and place Beethoven the Man and the Composer before us in "Leben und Schaffen,"—in his life and his labors.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various