The play is founded on the lives of Edward IV, Edward V, and Richard III, as given (on the authorities of Edward Hall and Sir Thomas More) in Holinshed's Chronicles .
— from William Shakespeare by John Masefield

Thence it bent back to the south for a short distance, making a sharp salient round the latter village, and ran in a general westerly direction along the southern edge of Bourlon Wood and across the southern face of the spur to the west of the wood, to the Canal du Nord, southeast of the village of Moeuvres.
— from Current History: A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times, May 1918 Vol. VIII, Part I, No. 2 by Various

The object was the cruel one of perpetuating the infamy of the victim and rendering it as galling as possible to his kindred and descendants.
— from A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 3 by Henry Charles Lea

The vagabonds are rich in all good things in this town.
— from The Scourge of God: A Romance of Religious Persecution by John Bloundelle-Burton

"The combination breakfast is a form of table d'hôte; and at a very attractive restaurant in a good place I have seen such a breakfast—fruit, cereal, eggs, rolls, and coffee—offered for fifteen cents.
— from Imaginary Interviews by William Dean Howells

It was from Villarde, and read: “I am glad to welcome you in our country and have ordered my lieutenant,
— from Adventures in Bolivia by C. H. (Cecil Herbert) Prodgers

a Vesicula umbilicalis already passing into the ventricular and rectum intestine at g .
— from A System of Midwifery by Edward Rigby