Materials: Cordonnet 6 fils D.M.C Nos. 20 to 50 or Chiné d'or D.M.C. Colours —For the cotton: Jaune-Rouille 363, 308, 366.—For Chiné d'or: Red and gold, blue and gold, green and gold.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

128 The four chief religious corporations of ancient Rome, mentioned in the Century Dictionary, evidently correspond to this fourfold division and it is specially stated of one of these corporations that it was represented and governed by a group consisting of seven “septemvir epulones” who formed a “septemvirate.”
— from The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations A Comparative Research Based on a Study of the Ancient Mexican Religious, Sociological, and Calendrical Systems by Zelia Nuttall

Twenty-three royal cells yet remained, assiduously guarded by a great many bees.
— from New observations on the natural history of bees by François Huber

'If you mean that they are people of rank, and good blood, and good property, they are certainly people of consideration; but they are Goths, Vandals, Huns, Calmucks, Canadian savages!
— from Venetia by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Though manifestly rounded and grooved by ancient glaciers, I failed to find scratches on these weather-worn rocks.† *
— from Himalayan Journals — Complete Or, Notes of a Naturalist in Bengal, the Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, the Khasia Mountains, etc. by Joseph Dalton Hooker

A Jesuit of good connexions, and more than common abilities, had, during a long residence at Granada, become a general favourite, and especially in a family of distinction where there were some young ladies.
— from Letters from Spain by Joseph Blanco White

They would always be pinched and struggling, he knew—a City clerkship is not an El Dorado of riches, and growing boys and girls have to be clothed and educated.
— from Lover or Friend by Rosa Nouchette Carey

In Baltimore I stopped at Bradshaw’s, near the depot, and there found a good, comfortable room, a good bed, and good breakfast for one dollar.
— from Mysteries of Washington City, during Several Months of the Session of the 28th Congress by Caleb Atwater

Grey and glacier, blue and glacier, rose and glacier, black and glacier, white and glacier, golden and glacier.
— from Katharine Frensham: A Novel by Beatrice Harraden