Part of their revenues was to be devoted to raising the salaries of the secular clergy, so that every parish priest should have an income of 2,400 reals (about £25).
— from A History of the Peninsular War, Vol. 1, 1807-1809 From the Treaty of Fontainbleau to the Battle of Corunna by Charles Oman

the "science" is in such a confused and imperfect state that every paragraph presents some unforeseen snag, and I often spend many weeks on a point that I didn't foresee as a difficulty at all.
— from The Letters of William James, Vol. 1 by William James

Sir Robert Peel assures your Majesty that he does not think that there is the slightest ground for apprehension on the occasion of the Levée, but Sir Robert Peel will, without the slightest allusion to your Majesty's communication to him, make personal enquiries into the police arrangements, and see that every precaution possible shall be taken.
— from The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861 Volume 1, 1837-1843 by Queen of Great Britain Victoria

he asked; and the silence the elders preserved plainly said, On Mary’s heaving bosom this begging-petition was read.
— from Poems — Volume 1 by George Meredith

The gas in its escape has been discharged through a five-inch pipe, and at a pressure of from sixty to eighty pounds per square inch.
— from The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 by Various