Rio coffees should improve with age, as they are naturally strong and earthy.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

And so upon a night Sir Andred espied the hour and the time when Sir Tristram went to his lady.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

While deeper sorrows groan from each full heart, And nature speaks at every pause of art.
— from The Iliad by Homer

It was matter of equal moment to Nicholas whether they were waiting for one gentleman or twenty, so he received the intelligence with perfect unconcern; and, being out of spirits, and not seeing any especial reason why he should make himself agreeable, looked out of the window and sighed involuntarily.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Last summer, he gave me a nest full of young sparrows, and he saw me pulling off their legs and wings, and heads, and never said anything; except that they were nasty things, and I must not let them soil my trousers: and Uncle Robson was there too, and he laughed, and said I was a fine boy.’
— from Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

Any such essential symbolism stands beyond the pale of all religion, all notions of cult, all history, all natural science, all experience of the world, all knowledge, all politics, all psychology, all books and all Art—for his "wisdom" is precisely the complete ignorance
— from The Twilight of the Idols; or, How to Philosophize with the Hammer. The Antichrist Complete Works, Volume Sixteen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Three field-ambulances are attached to each division in the field, one to each brigade, and their officers and men are divided into bearer and nursing sections and equipped with horse or mule and motor transport for wounded and sick.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

But just as we can abstract it from the Christian element, so can we also go still further and regard even the Jewish as not strictly an essential element of gnosis.’
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

While the Carthaginians, therefore, were occupied with the Celtiberian war, they promptly crossed the Iberus, and not seeing any enemy, pursue their course to Saguntum; for it was reported that the hostages from every part of Spain, having been consigned to custody, were kept in the citadel of that place under a small guard.
— from The History of Rome, Books 09 to 26 by Livy

A wall has been built across the east end of the basilica, separating off the chancel, which has three apses, north, south and east, and which forms the Greek church.
— from Tent Work in Palestine: A Record of Discovery and Adventure by C. R. (Claude Reignier) Conder

The code of hospitality amongst Indians being such a liberal one, even the palpable cadgers are not sent away empty.
— from India and the Indians by Edward Fenton Elwin

If people do not spend two or three hours in the air every day, they are likely to develop an over-sensitive condition in which all nervous sensations are exaggerated.
— from Psychotherapy Including the History of the Use of Mental Influence, Directly and Indirectly, in Healing and the Principles for the Application of Energies Derived from the Mind to the Treatment of Disease by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

Though Mark was thin, he had a nervous strength almost equal to that of his stouter companion.
— from Through the Air to the North Pole Or, The Wonderful Cruise of the Electric Monarch by Roy Rockwood

[836] All nourished, spangled, and edged in a manner so stupendous as to defy description.
— from History of Lace by Palliser, Bury, Mrs.

" "I understand that the party is to be a large general affair, not small and exclusive?
— from Her Husband's Purse by Helen Reimensnyder Martin

She could not spoil his work, for he was shrewd enough in some ways, but she did contrive to develop a great deal that was artificial and petty in his character, whereas her feeling for him was as nearly sincere as emotion ever is in a nature that continually poses, as much to quicken its own spirit as to impress others.
— from Master and Maid by L. Allen (Lizzie Allen) Harker

The remains of corals, encrinites, and shells often form the greater part of whole mountain ranges, and, what is still more remarkable, mighty strata of limestone or flint are not seldom almost entirely composed of the aggregated remains of microscopical animals.
— from The Subterranean World by G. (Georg) Hartwig

Well, as I was saying, we were both as near starvation as ever I wish to be, the Irishman and me.
— from Philip Winwood A Sketch of the Domestic History of an American Captain in the War of Independence; Embracing Events that Occurred between and during the Years 1763 and 1786, in New York and London: written by His Enemy in War, Herbert Russell, Lieutenant in the Loyalist Forces. by Robert Neilson Stephens