John Ray extolled the virtues of coffee in his Universal Botany of Plants , published in London in 1686.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

There are in The Book of Pictures poems in which this will to concentrate a mood into its essence and finality is applied to purely lyrical poems as in Initiation , that stands out in this volume like "the great dark tree" itself so immeasurable is the straight line of its aspiration reaching into the far distant silence of the night; or as in the poem entitled Autumn , with its melancholy mood of gentle descent in all nature.
— from Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke

If there had never been any remedy for any ill, and all ills had been incurable, it is impossible that men should have imagined that they could give remedies, and still more impossible that so many others should have believed those who boasted of having remedies; in the same way as did a man boast of preventing [Pg 241] death, no one would believe him, because there is no example of this.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

There were five of us, and we overpowered this cry by our persistent protest, "Down with Louis Bonaparte!
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

Sewing on gathers (fig. 21 ).—To distribute the fulness equally, divide the gathered portion of ma terial, and the band, or plain piece, on to which it is to be sewn, into equal parts, and pin the two together at corresponding distances, the gathered portion under the plain, and hem each gather to the band or plain piece, sloping the needle to make the thread slant, and slipping it through the upper threads only of the gathers.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

Nor is it ever unlatched to those who sit at the gate rattling at the bars, or plaintively peering in.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

Evening Mary Virgin The Book of Pictures: Presaging Autumn Silent Hour The Angels Solitude Kings in Legends The Knight The Boy Initiation The Neighbour Song of the Statue Maidens I Maidens II
— from Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke

, the very earth which received that holy water, had the power of saving grace in casting out devils from the bodies of persons possessed.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

But it seems to me clear that the ultima ratio, not only regum, but of private persons, is force, and that at the bottom of all private relations, however tempered by sympathy and all the social feelings, is a justifiable self-preference.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

She avoided hotels where the cooking was decent, because other people patronised them.
— from Miss Arnott's Marriage by Richard Marsh

In competing for through traffic it was handicapped by the roundabout length of its route: it ran along two sides of a triangle, while the Canadian Pacific, subsidized by one political party, was built along the base, and the National Transcontinental, built by the other party, came in between; in summer it had to face the competition of the St Lawrence route as well.
— from The Railway Builders: A Chronicle of Overland Highways by Oscar D. (Oscar Douglas) Skelton

There is one circumstance in the work you were concerned in, which has not yet come to my knowledge; to wit, How far westward from Fort Pitt, does the western boundary of Pennsylvania pass, and where does it strike the Ohio?
— from Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 by Thomas Jefferson

There would be one porter probably went out maybe one or two trips.
— from Warren Commission (13 of 26): Hearings Vol. XIII (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

On the exterior is usually a broad frieze, divided by bands of ornament into four or five fields, in which are birds or palmette patterns; these panels are not necessarily arranged with reference to the position of the handles.
— from History of Ancient Pottery: Greek, Etruscan, and Roman. Volume 1 (of 2) by H. B. (Henry Beauchamp) Walters

Essex, Southampton , Pembroke, Cecil, Mortimer, Burleigh and Lord Bacon occupied prominent places at the angle table of the club, where Raleigh sat as master of ceremonies.
— from Shakspere, Personal Recollections by John A. (John Alexander) Joyce

And to think that a bit of pink paper and the word tiger —" Romney was silent.
— from The Last Ditch by Will Levington Comfort

Blandois of Paris pulled off his slouched hat, and saluted the ladies without coming out of his corner.
— from Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

ADP [Sylvain Adekpedjou AKINDES]; Alliance of the Social Democratic Party or PSD and the National Union for Solidarity and Progress or UNSP [Bruno AMOUSSOU]; Cameleon Alliance or AC [leader NA]; Car-DUNYA [Saka SALEY]; Communist Party of Benin or PCB [Pascal FANTONDJI, first secretary]; Democratic Renewal Party or PRD [Adrien HOUNGBEDJI]; Front for Renewal and Development or FARD-ALAFIA
— from The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Governor Bradford of Plymouth Plantation was once there.
— from Witches Cove A Mystery Story for Girls by Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell