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Advertising Coffee advertising began
Chart Showing Money Spent on Advertising Coffee and Substitutes Only advertisements printed in magazines and periodicals are considered in making this calculation Package Coffee Advertising Coffee advertising began to take on a distinctive character with the introduction of Ariosa by John Arbuckle in 1873.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

a cudgel and by
To which Sancho, glowing all over with rage, returned, "Then let Doctor Pedro Recio de Malaguero, native of Tirteafuera, a place that's on the right-hand side as we go from Caracuel to Almodovar del Campo, graduate of Osuna, get out of my presence at once; or I swear by the sun I'll take a cudgel, and by dint of blows, beginning with him, I'll not leave a doctor in the whole island; at least of those I know to be ignorant; for as to learned, wise, sensible physicians, them I will reverence and honour as divine persons.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

and coats and beautiful
She had lace frocks, too, and velvet and muslin ones, and hats and coats and beautiful lace-trimmed underclothes, and gloves and handkerchiefs and furs.
— from A Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time by Frances Hodgson Burnett

a cross and behind
As he went back to the fire, the deacon imagined the Church procession going along a dusty road on a hot July day; in front the peasants carrying the banners and the women and children the ikons, then the boy choristers and the sacristan with his face tied up and a straw in his hair, then in due order himself, the deacon, and behind him the priest wearing his calotte and carrying a cross, and behind them, tramping in the dust, a crowd of peasants—men, women, and children; in the crowd his wife and the priest’s wife with kerchiefs on their heads.
— from The Duel and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

and cold and braves
He is scarcely aware of extremes of heat and cold and braves them with impunity.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Army Corps and by
We have seen in the chapters on “The Benevolent Assimilation Proclamation” and “The Iloilo Fiasco” that, in the Philippines at any rate, no matter how mellifluously pacific it may have sounded at home—no matter how soothing to the troubled doubts of the national conscience—the Benevolent Assimilation Proclamation of December 21, 1898, was recognized both by the Eighth Army Corps and by Aguinaldo’s people as a call to arms—a signal to the former to get ready for the work of “civilizing with a Krag”; a signal to the latter to gird up their loins for the fight to the death for government of their people, by their people, for their people; and that the yearning benevolence of said proclamation was calculated strikingly to remind the Filipinos of Spain’s previous traditional yearnings for the welfare of Cuba, indignantly cut short by us—yearnings “to spare the great island from the danger of premature [ 284 ] independence” 1 which that decadent monarchy could not even help repeating in the swan-song wherein she sued to President McKinley for peace.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

and churn and buzz
She could grind, and pump, and churn, and buzz by the week, and never stop to oil up or blow out.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

and cries accompanied by
At her festivals, which took place at night, the wildest music of flutes, cymbals, and drums resounded, whilst joyful shouts and cries, accompanied by dancing and loud stamping of feet, filled the air.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

are considered as being
59 Not quite our “waste products ,” since these are considered as being partly synthetic, whereas the Greek perittomata were simply superfluous substances which could not be used and were thrown aside.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

a crowd at Bartlemy
In the chamber above were portraits of the King and Queen, the Bishop of London, Prior Hagno preaching to a crowd at Bartlemy Fair, some of the chief men of the government, and animals wild and tame.
— from In the Days of the Guild by Louise Lamprey

a competent authority but
Those who think for themselves will naturally make more mistakes than those who carefully follow the dictates of a competent authority; but there are other [Pg 279] counterbalancing advantages which bring the enterprising mistake-maker more speedily to the goal than his impeccable rival.
— from The Land of Contrasts: A Briton's View of His American Kin by James F. (James Fullarton) Muirhead

and Coxwell accompanied by
He does not, however, add the fact, worthy of being chronicled, that exactly a week after the appalling adventure Gypson and Coxwell, accompanied by a Captain whose name does not transpire, and loaded with twice the previous weight of fireworks, made a perfectly successful night ascent and descent in the same balloon.
— from The Dominion of the Air: The Story of Aerial Navigation by John M. (John Mackenzie) Bacon

a civilian and by
But the German does not go to Africa to make concessions, Tom was obviously a civilian, and, by all the rules of the German social system, beyond the pale of military courtesy.
— from Tom Burnaby: A Story of Uganda and the Great Congo Forest by Herbert Strang

After cleansing and brushing
After cleansing and brushing the truffles, cut them into thin slices and put them in a baking-dish, on a seasoning of oil or butter, pepper, salt, parsley, garlic and mace in the above proportion.
— from The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) Cooking, Toilet and Household Recipes, Menus, Dinner-Giving, Table Etiquette, Care of the Sick, Health Suggestions, Facts Worth Knowing, Etc., Etc. The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home by Hugo Ziemann

and cracking about Black
“Ay,” said his patron, “but ye ken we maun hae turnips for the lang sheep, billie, and muckle hard wark to get them, baith wi’ the pleugh and the howe; and that wad sort ill wi’ sitting on the broomy knowe, and cracking about Black Dwarfs, and siccan clavers, as was the gate lang syne, when the short sheep were in the fashion.” “Aweel, aweel, maister,” said the attendant, “short sheep had short rents, I’m thinking.”
— from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott

above Constitution and Bye
According to the above Constitution and Bye-Laws , the Kuomintang has five divisional organizations, viz.
— from The China of Chiang K'ai-Shek: A Political Study by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

at Christmas and by
The Rev. W. Gregor says at Keith this game is played at Christmas, and by two.
— from The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland (Vol 1 of 2) With Tunes, Singing-Rhymes and Methods of Playing etc. by Alice Bertha Gomme

a Christian and believe
I am a Christian and believe my Bible as soundly as you do.
— from The Grey Room by Eden Phillpotts

abbé Cochet at Bouteilles
The researches of the abbé Cochet at Bouteilles have shown that glazed pottery was in use in the north of France in the Anglo-norman period of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, or perhaps even in earlier time.
— from Maiolica by C. Drury E. (Charles Drury Edward) Fortnum


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