If the latter be rotated, the bevels would turn C and D at equal speeds, assuming that [Pg 109] both axles revolve without friction in their bearings.
— from How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Archibald Williams

These stones are said to be rarely found (1 in 2000 or more) in the perisperm [ 196 ] of the cocoa-nut, and when found are kept by the natives as a charm against disease and evil spirits.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

Your colonel, as I am informed, is an excellent man—for a Presbyterian; but you will remember your duty to God, the Church of England, and the—' (this breach ought to have been supplied, according to the rubric, with the word KING; but as, unfortunately, that word conveyed a double and embarrassing sense, one meaning de facto and the other de jure, the knight filled up the blank otherwise)—'the Church of England, and all constituted authorities.'
— from Waverley; Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since — Volume 1 by Walter Scott

The Greek church, like the Latin, prescribes a formula for blessing those candles, and believe, that whenever the benediction is said over them, they have a power conferred upon them of chasing away demons and evil spirits when they are lighted. 31 T. Allom.
— from Constantinople and the Scenery of the Seven Churches of Asia Minor Series One and Series Two in one Volume by R. (Robert) Walsh

In his defence Thomas Cooper again delivered an eloquent speech, five and a half hours long, and was again acquitted of the charge of felony.
— from Lives of Illustrious Shoemakers by W. E. (William Edward) Winks

We do not even like the rich young man in the Bible who wanted to inherit eternal life, unless, indeed, he merely wanted to know whether there was not some way by which he could avoid dying, and even so he is hardly worth considering.
— from Life and Habit by Samuel Butler

Came a dramatic and equally soulful interpolation: "Whoa, dang you!
— from Somewhere in Red Gap by Harry Leon Wilson

At other times they were engaged in the English channel, attacking Dutch and English ships, sometimes picking up a prize, at other times in actual sea-fight.
— from The Huguenots in France by Samuel Smiles

Dickens's great novel, 210 "A Tale of Two Cities," afforded the Vitagraph Company of America, one of its best films, while James Fennimore Cooper, Alexander Dumas, and even Shakespeare, and grand opera have been transferred to the cinematograph.
— from The Boy's Book of New Inventions by Harry E. (Harry Edward) Maule

Although coloured as dark as Ethiopia, she utters notes as pure as if uttered in the words of the Adriatic.
— from The Black Swan at Home and Abroad or, A Biographical Sketch of Miss Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield, the American Vocalist by Anonymous

Without waiting to investigate the nature, appearance, or structure of the precious mass, Nerado ordered power into the converters and drove an enormous softening field of force upon the object--a force of such a nature that it would condense the metallic iron into an allotropic modification of much smaller bulk; a red, viscous, extremely dense and heavy liquid which could be stored conveniently in his tanks.
— from Triplanetary by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith