Schroud , sb. dress, garment, PP; scrud , S; shrud , S; srud , S; schroude , WA, S2; shroudes , pl. , rough outer clothes, P.—AS. scrúd (Voc.).
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

Finally the new birth has to be inspected critically by the public censor before it is allowed to live; most probably it is too feeble and defective to prosper in the common air, or is a monster that violates some primary rule of civic existence, tormenting itself to disturb others.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

[170] Consolidation On October 12, 1870, the San Francisco and San José Railroad, the Southern Pacific, the Santa Clara and Pajaro Valley Railroad, and a new company, the California Southern, organized on paper only, were consolidated into a corporation known as the Southern Pacific Railroad of California.
— from Chapters on the History of the Southern Pacific by Stuart Daggett

While it is true that the portion of the roads operated by the Southern Pacific Company which was known as the Atlantic system, comprising the lines east of El Paso, escaped with a decline of earnings from $7,700 per mile to $7,400, or only 43 per cent, the Pacific system, including the Central Pacific and the Southern Pacific Railroad of California, witnessed a decline in its returns from $8,000 per mile in 1891 to $6,400 per mile in 1897, or a loss of from five to six times as much in gross, and a still greater relative decline in net, receipts.
— from Chapters on the History of the Southern Pacific by Stuart Daggett

[Sidenote: "Personal" Rule of Charles I, 1629-1640] [Sidenote: "Ship money"]
— from A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. by Carlton J. H. (Carlton Joseph Huntley) Hayes

CHAPTER X In which Master Pory gains Time to some Purpose R OLFE , coming down by boat from Varina, had reached the town in the dusk of that day which had seen the arrival of the Santa Teresa , and I had gone to him before I slept that night.
— from By order of the company by Mary Johnston

Even within our domestic limits, even where little England, in her south- eastern quarter now devolves so quietly to the sea her sweet pastoral rivulets, once came roaring down, in pomp of waters, a regal Ganges [Footnote: 'Ganges:' —Dr. Nichol calls it by this name for the purpose of expressing its grandeur; and certainly in breadth, in diffusion at all times, but especially in the rainy season, the Ganges is the cock of the walk in our British orient.
— from Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers — Volume 2 by Thomas De Quincey

Revisited 27 IV.—O'Connell in Liverpool—Terence Bellew MacManus and the Repeal Hall—The Great Irish Famine 48 V.—The "No-Popery" Mania—The Tenant League—The Curragh Camp 58 VI.—The Irish Revolutionary Brotherhood—Escape of James Stephens— Projected Raid on Chester Castle—Corydon the Informer 73 VII.—The Rising of 1867—Arrest and Rescue of Kelly and Deasy— The Manchester Martyrdom 89 VIII.—A Digression—T.D. Sullivan—A National Anthem— The Emerald Minstrels—"The Spirit of the Nation" 113 IX.—A Fenian Conference at Paris—The Revolvers for the ManchesterRescue—Michael Davitt sent to Penal Servitude 123 X.—Rescue of the Military Fenians 139 XI.—The Home Rule Movement 148 XII.—The Franco-Prussian War—An Irish Ambulance Corps— The French Foreign Legion 160 XIII.—The Home Rule Confederation of Great Britain 170 XIV.—Biggar and Parnell—The "United Irishman"— The O'Connell Centenary 179 XV.—Home Rule in Local Elections—Parnell succeeds Butt as President of the Irish Organisation in Great Britain 185 XVI.—Michael Davitt's Return from Penal Servitude—Parnell and the "Advanced" Organisation 199 XVII.—Blockade Running—Attempted Suppression of "United Ireland"—William O'Brien and his Staff in Jail—How Pat Egan kept the flag flying 209 XVIII.—Patrick
— from The Life Story of an Old Rebel by John Denvir

It was objected that the Emperor should have stayed at home to look after imperial business, that such a journey must excite suspicion in England and France—in the former because England is an Oriental power, and in the latter because France is supposed to claim special protective rights over Christianity in the East.
— from William of Germany by Stanley Shaw

[142] ’ and the second provisional regiment of cuirassiers, perhaps 5,000 men in all.
— from A History of the Peninsular War, Vol. 1, 1807-1809 From the Treaty of Fontainbleau to the Battle of Corunna by Charles Oman