Both under Spanish and French rule, Slavery had existed throughout this vast yet sparsely populated region.
— from Project Gutenberg Edition of The Memoirs of Four Civil War Generals by John Alexander Logan

"He will wake up soon and feel rather sick.
— from The Wheel O' Fortune by Louis Tracy

Maxillæ with two large, unequal, upper spines, and four regular steps.
— from A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 1 of 2) The Lepadidae; Or, Pedunculated Cirripedes by Charles Darwin

There are some garden loams that will do well just as taken up, but as a rule better results will be obtained where the soil is made up specially, as follows: rotted sods two parts, old rotted manure one part, and enough coarse sand added to make the mixture fine and crumbly, so that, even when moist, it will fall apart when pressed into a ball in the hand.
— from Gardening Indoors and Under Glass A Practical Guide to the Planting, Care and Propagation of House Plants, and to the Construction and Management of Hotbed, Coldframe and Small Greenhouse by F. F. (Frederick Frye) Rockwell