Very excellent Rondeletia may also be made with English spirit.
— from The Art of Perfumery, and Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants With Instructions for the Manufacture of Perfumes for the Handkerchief, Scented Powders, Odorous Vinegars, Dentifrices, Pomatums, Cosmetics, Perfumed Soap, Etc., to which is Added an Appendix on Preparing Artificial Fruit-Essences, Etc. by G. W. Septimus (George William Septimus) Piesse

Tobago (21), one of the Windward Islands ( q. v .), the most southerly of the group; a British possession since 1763, politically attached to Trinidad; is hilly, picturesque, and volcanic; exports rum, molasses, and live-stock.
— from The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall

So impressive were these religious observances that one girl, a bright, beautiful child, Virginia E. Reed, made a solemn vow that if God would hear these prayers, and deliver her family from the dangers surrounding them, she would become a Catholic.
— from History of the Donner Party: A Tragedy of the Sierra by C. F. (Charles Fayette) McGlashan

No complete, genuine whaling harpoons were ever offered for sale, but a man at Nuwûk made a very excellent reduced model ab
— from Ethnological results of the Point Barrow expedition Ninth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1887-1888, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1892, pages 3-442 by John Murdoch

[465] “Per Dominum cancellarium declaratum est quod cum non solum proceres spirituales verum etiam regia majestas ad unionem in precedentibus articulis conficiendam multipliciter studuerunt et laboraverunt ita
— from History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. Vol. III by James Anthony Froude

For instance, the common red Gallica , the " Apothecary's rose ," is usually called the Red Damask , and its many striped varieties, especially Rosa Mundi , are mistaken for the true York and Lancaster , which is a true Damask rose.
— from Roses and Rose Growing by Rose Georgina Kingsley

Now I can, by a vigorous effort, regard matter as mere states or possible states of my consciousness (at least I can do so for the moment), but I can also look on other persons in the same light.
— from The Philosophy of Natural Theology An Essay in confutation of the scepticism of the present day by William Jackson