It first appeared many years ago along the Wallkill; now it may be seen upon many of its tributaries and all along its banks; and in many of the marshy bays and coves along the Hudson, its great masses of purple-red bloom in middle and late summer affording a welcome relief to the traveler's eye.
— from A Year in the Fields by John Burroughs

The harness is generally made of rope or string, instead of leather, and even if a leather strap or trace is visible, it is nearly always in two or three pieces temporarily connected with string.
— from The Kingdom of the Yellow Robe Being Sketches of the Domestic and Religious Rites and Ceremonies of the Siamese by Ernest Young

The hair is generally more or less removed from the [Pg 415] back; and the thickest portions of the skin are either above the neck, or just before the tail.
— from The Dog by W. N. (William Nelson) Hutchinson

“Professor Hammond thinks that he is getting Mars on the air,” the voice continued.
— from The Radio Planet by Ralph Milne Farley

The flooring of this part of the house is generally made of bilian , or iron-wood, so as to stand exposure to the weather.
— from Seventeen Years Among the Sea Dyaks of Borneo A Record of Intimate Association with the Natives of the Bornean Jungles by Edwin Herbert Gomes

"There is another sort of leering curs, that rather snarle than bite, whereof I coulde instance in one, who lighting upon a good sonnet of a gentlemans, a friend of mine, that loved better to be a Poet, then to be counted so, called the author a rymer, notwithstanding he had more skill in good Poetrie, then my slie gentleman seemed to have in good manners or humanitie.
— from Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 by Arthur Acheson

It was the night of Monday, the 10th of December, 1748, and once again all Paris lay under the snow--snow that hung in great masses over the eaves of the houses, threatening, when the next thaw should come, to fall and envelop the passers-by; that was caked and hardened on the chaussées of all the streets by the recent hard frost; that, out on the quays, was of the consistency of iron almost from the same cause; while, so severe had that frost been, that on the river the snow had been frozen into huge solid blocks, which swirled round and round in vast masses as, under the stars, they floated slowly down towards the open country and the sea.
— from Denounced: A Romance by John Bloundelle-Burton

Schiller's earnest and steadfast devotion to his Ideal Good: Misery of idleness and indecision.
— from The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works by Thomas Carlyle

The hood is generally made of colored leather, with eyes worked on it in beads, and gold and variegated threads.
— from Discoveries Among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon by Austen Henry Layard

Horses possessed of the qualities of courage, endurance, and sureness of foot are naturally invaluable; and even at the present day the Arab warrior esteems above all things a Horse of the purest breed, and, whether he buys or sells one, takes care to have its genealogy made out and hung on the animal's neck.
— from Bible Animals; Being a Description of Every Living Creature Mentioned in the Scripture, from the Ape to the Coral. by J. G. (John George) Wood