In one case (Pl. 25, Fig. 2) there are fourteen human figures arranged in two opposing rows of seven, every alternate figure being headless.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

They were anything but the “outlawed refuse of some European nation.”
— from History of the settlement of Upper Canada (Ontario,) with special reference to the Bay Quinté by William Canniff

Sift with one teaspoonful of baking-powder into one cupful of flour, add part of the flour, then the stiffly beaten whites of three eggs, [176] then add the remainder of the flour and a teaspoonful of rose or strawberry extract.
— from Candy-Making at Home Two hundred ways to make candy with home flavors and professional finish by Mary M.‏ (Mary Mason) Wright

The Chinese pilgrims Fa Hsien and Hsüan Chuang, writing on the basis of information obtained in the fifth and seventh centuries of our era, represent it as arising in connection with the first council, which was either that of Râjagaha or some earlier meeting supposed to have been held during the Buddha's lifetime, and
— from Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 by Eliot, Charles, Sir

During this process of re-creating the old races of Southern Europe, the Roman Empire was perishing.
— from A Short History of Germany by Mary Platt Parmele

Of this we were more sensible when, turning round, we found that our range of sight embraced one of the finest views imaginable.
— from Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. by Thomas Forester

“They are still the untutored incorrigible beings that they probably were, when the ruffian remnant of a disbanded regiment, or the outlawed refuse of some European nation, they sought refuge in the wilds of Upper Canada, aware that they would neither find means of subsistence, nor be countenanced in any civilized country.
— from History of the settlement of Upper Canada (Ontario,) with special reference to the Bay Quinté by William Canniff