Great was Leo's surprise to learn that he was now not only the owner of a fine palace southeast of Rome, but of large possessions in Rome, Sicily, and South America.
— from The Harris-Ingram Experiment by Charles E. (Charles Edward) Bolton

The author of the Anatomy was the son of Ralph Burton of Lindley in Leicestershire, where he was born on the 8th of February 1577.
— from A History of Elizabethan Literature by George Saintsbury

Mounted birds are usually put on temporary stands of rough boards or limbs and when fully dried out transferred to a permanent mount which can be prepared in the meantime of the exact size and variety wished for.
— from Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit A Guide for Those Who Wish to Prepare and Mount Animals, Birds, Fish, Reptiles, etc., for Home, Den, or Office Decoration by Albert Burton Farnham

Then the duck came in, and the widgeon, company by company: and all the light of day faded out of the sky saving one red band of light.
— from The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories by Lord Dunsany

In 904 Jeanne, sister of Raoul, bishop of Laon, with the help of her brother, founded at Anizy a priory of Sisters to receive and care for the young girls of the place.
— from France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 by William Henry Hurlbert

Following a curious custom of the day, which shows Folly and Wisdom side by side, just as we find them in Calderon's and Shakespeare's dramas, Lucretia presented the costly robe which she wore when she offered up her prayer, to one of her court fools, and the clown ran merrily through the streets of Rome, bawling out, "Long live the illustrious Duchess of Ferrara!
— from Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day by Ferdinand Gregorovius

It is a shrub 6 feet high, bearing an abundance of spotted, oval red berries on long footstalks.
— from Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs by Angus Duncan Webster

(Why do old folks always make us watch swans or read books or look into store windows or run and play all the time?
— from Mary Marie by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

The walls retained their hangings of tapestry, on which glowed hunting-scenes, with their woodlands, dogs, horsemen, and flying stags, or resisting boars, or lions; scenes mythological or historical.
— from Cassell's History of England, Vol. 2 (of 8) From the Wars of the Roses to the Great Rebellion by Anonymous