a title equivalent to Sword-Bearer Q. Qualifications of a Master of a lodge of candidates, moral religious physical intellectual political, 184 Quarterly communications of Grand Lodge, ordered in 1717 Question, how to be taken on a motion R. Reading, a qualification of candidates Recommendation of nearest lodge, necessary to form a new one of candidate, must be by two members Reconsideration of ballot motion for, is out of order, cannot be granted by dispensation Rejected candidate cannot apply to any other lodge renewed petition of, when to be made, Relief, right of claiming it unworthy Masons not entitled to it Religion of a Mason, what it is required to be Religious offenses not cognizable by a lodge Removal of a lodge, rule on the subject of Representatives of a lodge, who they are Reprimand, a masonic punishment Restoration from definite suspension indefinite supension expulsion must be at a stated communication may be by Grand Lodge requires a unanimous vote to membership discussed S. Secretary, Grand.
— from The Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Landmarks of Freemasonry by Albert Gallatin Mackey

In the first communities visited by representatives of northern capital, their offers created unprecedented commotion.
— from Negro Migration during the War by Emmett J. (Emmett Jay) Scott

While one region of the Earth's crust, continuing for a vast epoch above the surface of the ocean, bears record of no changes save those resulting from denudation; another region of the Earth's crust gives proof of various changes of level, with their several resulting masses of stratified detritus.
— from Illustrations of Universal Progress: A Series of Discussions by Herbert Spencer

Nova Scotia, to which probably more than to any other of these, refugees from Southern bondage fled, had by reason of natural causes, lost nearly, if not quite all traces of slavery by the beginning of our century.
— from The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom: A comprehensive history by Wilbur Henry Siebert

Indeed, it was looked upon not only as a curative, but also as a prophylactic, or preventive, of great service to those predisposed to this disease by reason of narrow chest and weak lungs.
— from Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say by Martha Meir Allen

Entered our luggage at the Custom-House, and were ourselves examined, {3} and afterwards put our luggage on board the brig Resolution, of Newcastle, Captain Clarke.
— from Hulme's Journal, 1818-19; Flower's Letters from Lexington and the Illinois, 1819; Flower's Letters from the Illinois, 1820-21; and Woods's Two Years' Residence, 1820-21 by John Woods

[13] The word "Orléans" means light woollen cloth, and possibly Cisy's pun might be rendered: "Oh! no cloth pudding, please."— Translator.
— from Sentimental Education; Or, The History of a Young Man. Volume 1 by Gustave Flaubert

The word "dependent" shall mean any child who for any reason is destitute or homeless or abandoned, or dependent upon the public for support, or has not proper parental care or guardianship, or who habitually begs or receives alms, or who is found living in any house of ill-fame or with any vicious or disreputable persons, or whose home, by reason of neglect, cruelty or depravity on the part of its parents, guardian or other persons whose care it may be, is an unfit place for said child, and any child under the age of ten years who is found begging, peddling or selling any article, or singing or playing any musical instrument upon the street, or giving any public entertainment, or who accompanies or is used in aid of any person so doing.
— from Twenty Years a Detective in the Wickedest City in the World by Clifton R. (Clifton Rodman) Wooldridge

Polly sprang in and Eleanor followed, but before Ruth or Nancy could get in, the driver slammed the door and off he went, in a whirl of dust.
— from Polly's Southern Cruise by Lillian Elizabeth Roy

" President Wilson described his attack on Mexico in 1914 as "measures short of war," and now someone referred to the British restrictions on neutral commerce as "measures short of blockade."
— from The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II by Burton Jesse Hendrick