[15] Another MS. reads 'une des denz Saint Pierre.'
— from Master Wace, His Chronicle of the Norman Conquest From the Roman De Rou by Wace

It was, however, removed a short time afterwards by parties unknown, and was next found in the Canes' barn, where it remained until Decoration Day, silent and shrouded in mystery and horse-blankets.
— from Sube Cane by Bellamy Partridge

All that he had here was in a cupboard with a rubbishy unlocked deal door, standing in John’s bedroom; a fact which speaks volumes for the trusting simplicity and total inability to read a man’s character from his appearance, caused by a millennium of marrying your cousin once removed.
— from Three in Norway, by Two of Them by Walter J. Clutterbuck

The relatively unimportant details, differing slightly in each species, are mere adjuncts; and since natural selection deals with each species or inter-generating group separately, the essential behaviour may in each case carry with it the associated differences of manner.
— from Animal Behaviour by C. Lloyd (Conwy Lloyd) Morgan

[Pg 13] reorganized and made a real, useful department, doing solid work, and open to talent of whatever caste; or it will be abolished altogether.
— from Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by Justin McCarthy