The boring rod is guided in the lower part of the hole by a lantern R, Fig. 159 , shown to a larger scale in Fig.
— from Water Supply: the Present Practice of Sinking and Boring Wells With Geological Considerations and Examples of Wells Executed by Ernest Spon

The disciples of Federigo were very numerous, but remaining in general in their own country they did not disseminate the principles, and few of them inherited the true spirit of their master's style: the most confining themselves to the exterior of the art of colouring; and even this was deteriorated by the use of large quantities of cinnabar and azure, colours which their master had employed with greater moderation; and they were not unfrequently condemned for this practice, as Bellori and Algarotti remark.
— from The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century by Luigi Lanzi

The principle of collaboration is excellent, but on condition (1) that the collective work is of a nature to be resolved into great independent, though co-ordinated, monographs; (2) that the section entrusted to each collaborator has a certain extent; if the number of collaborators is too great and the part of each too limited, the liberty and the responsibility of each are diminished or disappear.
— from Introduction to the Study of History by Charles Seignobos

[18] As in the summer, so in the winter side, the best room is generally in the centre.
— from Five Years in a Persian Town by Napier Malcolm

I accordingly wrote a report on the subject, which, as the project may some day be revived, I give in the Appendix (K) .
— from The Life of Sir Rowland Hill and the History of Penny Postage, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Hill, Rowland, Sir

“Take this, but, remember, I give it to you on condition of your spending it at the wineshop, of your getting drunk, fighting, beating your wife, blacking your friends’ eyes.
— from A Second Home by Honoré de Balzac

The best record in golf is the record she has made of restored health to the middle-aged.
— from Keeping Fit All the Way How to Obtain and Maintain Health, Strength and Efficiency by Walter Camp

However, it seems probable that, if the hotel keepers had not been receiving illegal goods in this way, they would not have been so suspicious.
— from The Story of a Dark Plot; Or, Tyranny on the Frontier by A.L.O.C.