M. tinctoria , Roxb., is a climbing shrub with leaves opposite, ovate, keeled; petioles very short; flower and fruit like the foregoing species.
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera

The words were read above the ashes of Betty Higden, in a corner of a churchyard near the river; in a churchyard so obscure that there was nothing in it but grass-mounds, not so much as one single tombstone.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

If we attach another simple sentence to that in § 450 , the result is a compound sentence .
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

Then read it aloud, concentrating solely on the thought that you are expressing—do not trouble about the sentence or thought that is coming.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

This affectionate term, like most other Slang phrases which have their rise in a certain section of society, has spread and become of general application.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

Being acquainted with the place, the Athenians hemmed their front with heavy infantry and, placing the light troops round in a circle, stoned all who had gone in.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

Ákung ugsúran ang ákung gilung-ag arun malútug dalì, I’ll add firewood to the fire beneath the rice I am cooking so that it will get cooked soon.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

But it is also true that these cults fit into each other and the totemic religion is a complex system formed by their union, just as Greek polytheism was made by the union of all the particular cults addressed to the different divinities.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

Oftentimes this resulted in a curious sort of neo-capitalism within the U.S.-owned socialism of the Army.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

This, before he offered his hand to Miss Milner, he was perfectly convinced would not be the case—even Miss Fenton herself assured him, that her thoughts were more upon the joys of Heaven than upon those of earth; and as this circumstance would, she believed, induce her to retire into a convent, she thought it a happy, rather than an unhappy, event.
— from A Simple Story by Mrs. Inchbald

I was not at all in sympathy with what seemed to me the indifference of their relaxations in a country so stricken as France; but I could not withhold my astonished admiration for the excellent seriousness with which they approached their business.
— from Home Fires in France by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Let the reader imagine a closet situated on the fourth story of the house.
— from Mysteries of Paris — Volume 02 by Eugène Sue

I would not willingly say anything which might distress or annoy you, Mr. Vernor,” continued I, interrupting myself, “but I fear that, in order to make myself intelligible, I must advert to an affair which I would willingly have forgotten.” “Go on, sir,” was the reply, in a cold sarcastic tone of voice—“pray finish your account without reference to my feelings; I am not likely to alarm your sensibility by any affecting display of them.” As the most sceptical could not have doubted for a moment the truth of this assertion, I resumed: “From my previous knowledge of Mr. Cumberland's character, I could not but consider him an unfit acquaintance for a young lady; and, on hinting this, and endeavouring to ascertain the extent of Miss Saville's intimacy with him, I was equally shocked and surprised to learn that she was actually engaged to him, and that you not only sanctioned the engagement, but were even desirous that the match
— from Frank Fairlegh: Scenes from the Life of a Private Pupil by Frank E. (Frank Edward) Smedley

"I'll mention no names for the moment, and if inadvertently I have conveyed the identity of the gentleman of whom I have been speaking, I hope you will be good enough to regard it as confidential," said Tarling, and went back to his crestfallen subordinate.
— from The Daffodil Mystery by Edgar Wallace

Public opinion in France and Great Britain, deceived by Hitler’s declarations, may have believed that the designs of National Socialism contemplated only settling the fate of German minorities; it may have hoped that there was a limit to German ambitions; and, ignorant as they were of the secret plans of which we have proof today, France and Great Britain allowed Germany to rearm and reoccupy the Rhineland at the very moment when, according to the testimony of Ribbentrop himself, a military reaction on their part would, in March 1936, have placed the Reich in a critical situation.
— from Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremburg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946, Volume 5 by Various

The result is a clayey soil, less favorable to wheat and Indian corn.
— from The American Indians Their History, Condition and Prospects, from Original Notes and Manuscripts by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

In endings of ROOK AGAINST BISHOP the weaker King must take refuge in a corner square of different colour from that of his Bishop.
— from Chess Strategy by Edward Lasker