We would desire to ask Mr. Dunlop for the exact proof he relies on for any one of these statements, beginning perhaps with “no law outside the customs of the tribe .”
— from The Old Irish World by Alice Stopford Green

The English people had read of him.
— from The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918 by Various

It was part and parcel of Mr. Plantagenet's silent method of claiming royal descent that he called all his children with studious care after the earlier Plantagenets, his real or supposed ancestors, who were Kings of England.
— from Blood Royal: A Novel by Grant Allen

In a musty old tome printed in 1649, and entitled "A Perfect Description of Virginia," we read that the English planters had "rootes of several kindes, Potatoes, Sparagus, Carrets and Hartichokes" - not the first mention of the artichoke by Anglo-Americans.
— from Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors by Neltje Blanchan

of maternal aunt me si da Those relationships that are expressed by different combinations of these letters differ specifically ; therefore, in saying, in the next chapter, that each person has “roughly, on the average, one fertile relative in each and every form of specific kinship,” it means in each and every combination of the above syllables that is practically possible.
— from Noteworthy Families (Modern Science) An Index to Kinships in Near Degrees between Persons Whose Achievements Are Honourable, and Have Been Publicly Recorded by Francis Galton