NOTE 4.—Several of the customs of Tangut mentioned in this chapter are essentially Chinese, and are perhaps introduced here because it was on entering Tangut that the traveller first came in contact with Chinese peculiarities.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

The vocal mothers consult after each confession and inflict the penance aloud.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Thus we find the terms "a doubting conscience," "an opinionated conscience," "an erring conscience," and the like; and councils were held, and confessors employed, for the special purpose of setting such irregularities straight.
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

to be fulfilled, realised, Lu. 12.50; 18.31, et al; of time, to be ended, Re. 15.8; 20.3, 5, 7: from Τέλος , εος, τό, an end attained, consummation; an end, closing act,
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

Volcanoes were quite numerous in the world's early days, but they're going extinct one by one; the heat inside the earth is growing weaker, the temperature in the globe's lower strata is cooling appreciably every century, and to our globe's detriment, because its heat is its life."
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

A satisfactory spiritual life will begin with a complete change in relation between God and the sinner; not a judicial change merely, but a conscious and experienced change affecting the sinner's whole nature.
— from The Pursuit of God by A. W. (Aiden Wilson) Tozer

A Short History of Coffee Advertising Early coffee advertising—The first coffee advertisement in 1587 was frank propaganda for the legitimate use of coffee—The first printed advertisement in English—The first newspaper advertisement—Early advertisements in colonial America—Evolution of advertising—Package coffee advertising—Advertising to the trade—Advertising by means of newspapers, magazines, billboards, electric signs, motion pictures, demonstrations, and by samples—Advertising for retailers—Advertising by government propaganda—The Joint Coffee Trade publicity campaign in the United States—
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

The confused wreck of things crumbling and even crashing and tumbling all round us in these revolutionary ages, will get down so far;
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

One sabre-cut had opened the back entirely across, exposing the action of the viscera, and his arms and wrists were barbarously hacked: yet he was firm, collected, and even cheerful; and to a kind reproach for his rashness, he said, "What would you have said, Captain Sahib, had I surrendered the Company’s musket ( Kampani ki banduq ) without fighting?"
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

Altofts, a town of England, West Riding of Yorkshire, on the south of the Calder, 3 miles north-east of Wakefield, with a fourteenth-century Gothic church, and extensive collieries adjoining.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

Monsieur Lousteau-Prangin and Monsieur Mouilleron, the commissary of police, the lieutenant of gendarmes, and two of his men, had some difficulty in reaching the place Saint-Jean through two hedges of people, whose cries and exclamations could and did prejudice them against the Parisian; who was, it is needless to say, unjustly accused, although, it is true, circumstances told against him.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

Hair color and eye color are evidently native, and so, in the main, is the size of the body, though undoubtedly growth may be stunted by poor nutrition, and the individual fail to reach his "natural" height and weight.
— from Psychology: A Study Of Mental Life by Robert Sessions Woodworth

Parents and teachers should look well to the matter of creating and establishing continuous and permanent states of feeling that are favorable to work and development.
— from The Science of Human Nature A Psychology for Beginners by William Henry Pyle

In the second, third, and fourth chapters of it, treating of [134] “The Antecedent Probability of Ecclesiastical Miracles,” of their internal character, and of the evidence in support of their credibility, he shows how the admission of Scripture miracles utterly does away with the ground taken by some against the possibility or probability of ecclesiastical miracles, how the two classes agree in their chief and essential characteristics, and how, in fact, they rather merge into one general class of events, under the moral order of divine Providence, established for man’s salvation—an order distinct from and superior to the physical order of nature.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 15, Nos. 85-90, April 1872-September 1872 A Monthly Magazine by Various

107 Farfara, 85 Fel bovis, 85 Fennel, 96 oil, 141 seed, 96 water, 141 Fermented milk, 123 Ferrated elixir of calisaya, alkaloidal (Elixir cinchonae alkaloidorum et ferri), 92 extract of apples, 90 [Pg 250] wine of wild cherry, 174 Ferri carbonas, 85 carbonas saccharatus, 86 cinchonae et calcii lactophosphatis, elixir (Elixir cinchonae alkaloidorum, ferri et calcii lactophosphatis), 50 et ammonii citras, 87 et quininae citras, 88 et quininae citras solubilis (Ferri et quininae citras), 88 iodidi syrupus (Syrupus ferri iodidi), 90 iodidum, 90 lactas, 90 lactophosphas, 90 malas, 90 malas crudus (Extractum ferri pomatum), 90 oxidum saccharatum, 91 protochloridum, 92 tersulphas, 94 Ferric acetate, 85 acetate solution, 85 and gentian phosphate elixir, 92 chloride, 86 chloride solution, 86 chloride, tincture, ethereal, 87 chloride, tasteless tincture (Tinctura ferri citro-chloridi), 87 chloride tincture, 86 citrate, 87 citrate, soluble (Ferri et ammonii citras), 87 citrate solution, 87 citro-chloride tincture, 87 citro-chloride tincture with gentian elixir (Elixir gentianae et ferri), 87 glycerinophosphate (Ferri glycerophosphas), 88 glycerophosphate, 88 hydrate with magnesia (Ferri hydroxidum cum magnesii oxido), 88 hydroxide, 88 hydroxide (Magma ferri hydroxidi), 89 hydroxide magma, 89 hydroxide, with, magnesium oxide, 88 hypophosphite, 89 hypophosphite elixir, 89 hypophosphite solution, 89 hypophosphite syrup, 89 nitrate, 91 nitrate solution, 91 oxide, soluble (Ferri oxidum saccharatum), 91 oxychloride, 91 oxychloride solution, 91 oxysulphate, 91 oxysulphate solution, 91 phosphate, 91 phosphate elixir, 92 phosphate, soluble (Ferri phosphas), 91 pyrophosphate, 92 pyrophosphate elixir, 93 pyrophosphate, quinine and strychnine elixir, 93 pyrophosphate, soluble (Ferri pyrophosphas), 92 salicylate solution, 206 subsulphate, 93 subsulphate solution, 93 sulphate, basic solution (Liquor ferri subsulphatis), 93 sulphate solution, 94 Ferrous carbonate, 85 carbonate mass, 85 carbonate pills, 86 chloride, 92 chloride solution, 92 chloride syrup, 92 iodide, 90 iodide pills, 90 iodide syrup, 90 lactate, 90 malate, 90 sulphate, 93 sulphate, dried (Ferri sulphas exsiccatus), 93 sulphate, exsiccated, 93 sulphate, granulated, 94 sulphate, precipitated (Ferri sulphas granulatus), 94 Ferruginous pills (Pilulae ferri carbonatis), 86 Ferrum, 94 albuminatum, 94 oxydatum saccharatum (Ferri oxidum saccharatum), 91 peptonatum, 94 redactum (Ferrum reductum),
— from Epitome of the Pharmacopeia of the United States and the National Formulary With Comments by William August Puckner

CENTURY ART EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ART THE SECOND FLOOR MODERN AMERICAN PAINTINGS MODERN EUROPEAN PAINTINGS MODERN DRAWINGS MODERN SCULPTURE
— from Handbook of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts With 143 Illustrations by Harry B. (Harry Brandeis) Wehle

There are numerous varieties, including a white-flowered E. cinerea alba; E. cinerea atro-purpurea, bearing dark purple flowers; E. cinerea atro-sanguinea, dark red flowers; E. cinerea coccinea, scarlet; E. cinerea purpurea, purple flowers; and E. cinerea rosea, with deep rose-coloured flowers.
— from Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs by Angus Duncan Webster

Old Paumgartner was right; for when the brightly-waxed and polished door, all over rich brass-work, was opened, the spacious entrance-hall, with its beautifully-inlaid floor, fine pictures on the walls, rich carpets, and elegant cabinets and chairs, was seen to be like some fine drawing-room; so that everyone willingly obeyed the instructions which, according to an old-world custom, were inscribed on a tablet hung up close to the door, in verse, as follows: "Those who, in entering, these steps ascend Should see that their shoon shall not sully the floor; Or then let them elsewhere their footsteps wend, That so there shall be no distress on their score A person of judgment doth know--without this--
— from The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann