The scientific work in the embalming of to-day is being done on the arteries, but cavity embalming should still hold an important place with those embalmers who desire to get the best results.
— from Anatomy and Embalming A Treatise on the Science and Art of Embalming, the Latest and Most Successful Methods of Treatment and the General Anatomy Relating to this Subject by Albert John Nunnamaker

The structure was built up of small logs, the cracks being chinked with what looked to be red mud, and a broad chimney extended some six feet above the low roof, built high to give the fire below more draft.
— from The Pony Rider Boys on the Blue Ridge; or, A Lucky Find in the Carolina Mountains by Frank Gee Patchin

She writes me that she has had a bad cold ever since she reached St. Louis and is heartily glad that she is coming home.
— from Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 2 by Slason Thompson

" THE V.C. My cousin Agatha has been a bad correspondent ever since she married my old friend, George Thimblewell, which means for the past five-and-twenty years, so in ordinary circumstances I do not expect more from her than a "hasty line" to tell me how the youngsters are doing (George, of course, never writes at all).
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, December 19, 1917 by Various

You can put into their lives such sunny memories as no after bitterness can efface; such sunny memories as shall wreathe you with a glory in the coming years when your head is laid low in the grave.
— from A New Atmosphere by Gail Hamilton

-ism , act of, result, state, doctrine: atheism, baptism, criticism, euphemism, socialism, schism, syllogism, Anglicanism, stoicism. -ist , denotes practice, occupation: apologist, chemist, copyist, elegist, eulogist, Hebraist, organist.
— from The Alberta Public School Speller Authorized by the Minister of Education for Alberta by Anonymous

Because, first , the constitution of our nature obliges us to accept its axioms, and by consequence each successive step in its impregnable demonstrations.
— from The Philosophy of Natural Theology An Essay in confutation of the scepticism of the present day by William Jackson

I was coming before, but I've had a bad cold ever since Saturday, and mother was afraid of the draughts on the stairs.
— from The Children on the Top Floor by Nina Rhoades

Mrs. Clark couldn't make and repair harness; so she cleared the straps and scraps and wax-ends out of the place, painted the interior of the shop bright yellow, with a blue ceiling, erected some shelves and a counter and turned part of the insurance money into candy, cigars, stationery, and a meager stock of paper-covered novels.
— from Aunt Jane's Nieces at Millville by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum