Years ago, it was the practise to use butter or lard to improve the appearance of the bean in roasting; but this is not so common as formerly.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

They get all mixt together, but eventually every beast is recovered by means of its owner's brand, which is known.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Under the bridge runneth a water, sometimes called, as I have said, the river of the Wels, since Turnemill brooke, now Fleete dike, because it runneth by the Fleete, and sometimes about the Fleete, so under Fleete bridge into the river of Thames.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

But coughs will come when sighs depart—and now And then before sighs cease; for oft the one Will bring the other, ere the lake-like brow Is ruffled by a wrinkle, or the sun Of life reach'd ten o'clock: and while a glow, Hectic and brief as summer's day nigh done, O'erspreads the cheek which seems too pure for clay, Thousands blaze, love, hope, die,—how happy they!
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

They remained stupefied, stranded, as it were, in the midst of a torrent which deafened them by its roaring, but might not move them by its violence.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

It is the reverse of a bronze coin of Vespasian, struck in the island of Cyprus, and represents the conical stone, under whose form Venus was worshipped at Paphos, of which Tacitus remarks, Hist, ii., c. 8, "the statue bears no resemblance to the human form, but is round, broad at one end and gradually tapering at the other, like a goal.
— from Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism With an Essay on Baal Worship, on the Assyrian Sacred "Grove," and Other Allied Symbols by Thomas Inman

Leake thinks that the Corsian Thebes, a port of Bœotia, is represented by the modern Khosia.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

[Pg 78] sisted from Westphalia or Franconia, but its real base would certainly be upon the Rhine.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

Furius Camillus Scribonianus, his lieutenant in Dalmatia, broke into rebellion, but was reduced in (305) the space of five days; the legions which he had seduced from their oath of fidelity relinquishing their purpose, upon an alarm occasioned by ill omens.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

But Cneas Sentins Saturninus, although he understood that Claudius was seized, and that he intended to claim the government, unwillingly indeed in appearance, but in reality by his own free consent, stood up in the senate, and, without being dismayed, made an exhortatory oration to them, and such a one indeed as was fit for men of freedom and generosity, and spake thus: 2.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Transportation ::Indian Ocean Ports and terminals: Chennai (Madras; India), Colombo (Sri Lanka), Durban (South Africa), Jakarta (Indonesia), Kolkata (Calcutta; India) Melbourne (Australia), Mumbai (Bombay; India), Richards Bay (South Africa)
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

"But impracticable," replied Barbicane.
— from From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon by Jules Verne

It seemed by its thorns to be in a state of perpetual horripilation, and by its roaming black antelopes to be rolling its eyes.
— from The Kathá Sarit Ságara; or, Ocean of the Streams of Story by active 11th century Somadeva Bhatta

This high officer is appointed nominally by the king, but in reality by the Pope, for the Holy See enjoys the privilege of a veto on the election of the sovereign.
— from History of the Inquisition from Its Establishment Till the Present Time by William Sime

Page 100 is blank but is referenced by an internal link.
— from Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making by W. Hamilton (William Hamilton) Gibson

To say that he had been intensely relieved by the news that Mrs. Noel was not free, would be to put it mildly.
— from The Works of John Galsworthy An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

That Harley, for some reason of his own, wished to be alone, was evident enough, but I resented being excluded from his confidence, even temporarily.
— from Bat Wing by Sax Rohmer