His features are harsh, and something of the tyrant is legible even through the adulation of the painter.
— from Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808 by lieutenant-colonel (Ninian) Pinkney

The pecuniary loss sustained since the first appearance 139.png 80 of the malady amounted in the autumn of 1852 to 1,137,990 Spanish piastres, £190,000, [23] and after having waited in vain a period of five years, for a better state of things, the impoverished landowners entirely gave up cultivating the vine.
— from Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl, Ritter von