For the next row, also made in coarse thread, fasten the thread on to a long loop and make one loop into each loop of the first row, over a small mesh.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

But after all that’s better than one of us being short and fat and the other tall and lean, like Morgan Sloane and his wife.
— from Anne of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Duck under the Water Each child chooses a partner, and form in couples standing one before the other, till a long line is formed.
— from The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland (Vol 1 of 2) With Tunes, Singing-Rhymes and Methods of Playing etc. by Alice Bertha Gomme

And a great variety of similar facts have been placed on record, [65] which satisfactorily prove that the level of the sea has been raised, pari passu , with that of the adjoining low lands.
— from A Decade of Italian Women, vol. 2 (of 2) by Thomas Adolphus Trollope

In the time of Pyrrhus much of the ancient peculiarity of the dialect was still in existence, although in the following saying all the forms are not those of the ancient Laconian language, αἂ μὲν ἔσσι τύ γε θεὸς, οὐδὲν μὴ πάθωμεν, οὐ γὰρ, ἀδικεῦμεν; αἂ δ᾽ ἄνθρωπος, ἔσεται καὶ τεῦ κάρρων ἄλλος, Plutarch.
— from The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 by Karl Otfried Müller

Tarsi shorter than the middle toe; the outer toe a little longer, reaching not quite to the base of the middle claw; hind toe rather longer than to this base.
— from A History of North American Birds; Land Birds; Vol. 2 of 3 by Robert Ridgway

Traces of terror and loneliness lingered there, and he knew that she had prayed for him.
— from The Lost Wagon by Jim Kjelgaard

61 THE ANTELOPE T HE track of the antelope looks like a combination of a bighorn track, which it resembles somewhat in length and prominence of the outer rim of the hoof, and that of the domestic sheep, to which it bears a likeness in the shape of the heels.
— from Tracks and Tracking by Josef Brunner

It may be pardoned to me, sir, who, in my boyhood, was given to the military service, and who have followed, under tropical suns and over northern snows, the flag of the Union, if I here express the deep sorrow which always overwhelms me when I think of taking a last leave of that object of early affection and proud association; feeling that henceforth it is not to be the banner which, by day and by night, I was ready to follow; to hail with the rising and bless with the setting sun.
— from The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 1 by Jefferson Davis