In any soil or position the hornbeam will grow readily, except exceedingly dry or too marshy spots.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884 by Various

I only want you to go round 'em every day, and see that they're all right.”
— from A Little Bush Maid by Mary Grant Bruce

This correspondence is printed in a curious volume, of the greatest rarity, entitled, Elogios de Don Honorato Juan, (Valencia, 1659,)
— from History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 by William Hickling Prescott

[618] A letter of Henry himself to M. de Selve, his ambassador at Rome, gives us the fact of the effort and of its failure: "Voyant les hérésies et faulces doctrines, qui à mon très grand regret, ennuy et desplaisir, pullulent en mes royaume et pays de mon obéissance, j'avoys despiéca advisé, selon les advis que le cardinal Caraffe estant dernièrement pardeça m'en a donné de la part de nostre Saint-Père, de mettre sus et introduire l'inquisition selon la forme de droict, pour estre le vray moien
— from History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 by Henry Martyn Baird

When a series of sightings over several days gave Rip enough exact data to work on, he recalculated the orbit, found the amount that the course had to be corrected, and supervised the cutting of new holes in the metal.
— from Rip Foster in Ride the Gray Planet by Harold L. (Harold Leland) Goodwin

[Pg 5] PREFACE In spite of the fact that an almost superabundant literature of exposition has gathered round early English drama, there is, I believe, still room for this book.
— from The Growth of English Drama by Arnold Wynne