Its terms have been so ill understood and defined that both parties have assumed the defensive; and a common topic of conversation in American female society has often been the general servile war which in one form or another was going on in their different families,—a war as interminable as would be a struggle between aristocracy and common people, undefined by any bill of rights or constitution, and therefore opening fields for endless disputes.
— from Household Papers and Stories by Harriet Beecher Stowe

That one stem, therefore, is prepared to open fresh flowers every day for a long time.
— from A Bird-Lover in the West by Olive Thorne Miller

To this end have the intrigues of the Orleans family, from Egalité downwards, ultimately tended.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 66 No.406, August 1849 by Various

He had the Wentworth hair, the golden-brown, which, like all their other family features, even down to their illnesses, the race was proud of, and a handsome silky beard.
— from The Perpetual Curate by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

725 The official figures for each district in 1896 were— District Dessiatines of 2½ acres under cotton.
— from The Heart of Asia A history of Russian Turkestan and the Central Asian Khanates from the earliest times by Ross, E. Denison (Edward Denison), Sir