The railroads of North Carolina are four feet eight and one-half inches gauge.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

[*] His father was one of the Greek mercenaries raised by Hak-Hor, a Mendesian Pharaoh of the twenty-ninth dynasty, and his grandfather or great-grandfather, I believe, was that very Kallikrates mentioned by Herodotus.[+] In or about the year 339 before Christ, just at the time of the final fall of the Pharaohs, this Kallikrates (the priest) broke his vows of celibacy and fled from Egypt with a Princess of Royal blood who had fallen in love with him, and was finally wrecked upon the coast of Africa, somewhere, as I believe, in the neighbourhood of where Delagoa Bay now is, or rather to the north of it, he and his wife being saved, and all the remainder of their company destroyed in one way or another.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

Arbeitstakt work cycle Arbeitstauglichkeit fitness for employment Arbeitstechniker time and motion study man Arbeitsteilung division of labour Arbeitsumfang; Arbeitsanfall volume of work Arbeitsunfall occupational accident Arbeitsunterbrechung interruption of work Arbeitsunterbrechung; Arbeitsstörung interruption of work Arbeitsvereinbarung work agreement Arbeitsvereinfachung work simplification Arbeitsverfahren procedure Arbeitsverfahren; Arbeitsmethode working method Arbeitsverlauf progress of work Arbeitsvermittlung employment agency Arbeitsvermittlung employment bureau
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

" [Pg 305] Early in 1953 PWS was transferred to the staff of the commander, Army Forces Far East (AFFE), a paper transaction to put the staff in a closer position to coordinate the plans and operations of the supporting army PsyWar units.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

What is it then to me if impious war, Array'd in flames, like to the prince of fiends, Do, with his smirch'd complexion, all fell feats Enlink'd to waste and desolation?
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Aldobrand stepped gracefully forward, arranged the types without omission of a single letter, hyphen, or comma, imposed them without deranging a single space, and pulled off the first proof as clear and free from errors, as if it h
— from The Antiquary — Complete by Walter Scott

[1] Those interested in the method pursued in Sweden and Denmark and the grave necessity for speedy measures to preserve our national cottages and farmhouses from effacement will find illuminating articles on the subject from the pen of "Home Counties" in the World's Work , August, October, and November, 1910, and in the American Educational Review , February, 1911, in an article by Lucy M. Salmon.
— from Chats on Cottage and Farmhouse Furniture by Arthur Hayden

This great little fighter, who was as much a pet of the white sporting faction as of the Colored element, took the Lightweight championship away from Frank Erne in 1892 and kept it for six years.
— from Colored girls and boys' inspiring United States history and a heart to heart talk about white folks by William Henry Harrison

In the period of disappointment that preceded his death he refused a remunerative post on the sporting staff of a leading Melbourne journal because he wished to dissociate himself completely and finally from everything connected with the professionalism of sport.
— from Australian Writers by Desmond Byrne

They’ll chase a fox five er sex times roond Skiddaw rayther ’n it sud git away.
— from The English Lakes by William T. Palmer

During the whole three days all the temples were uniformly crowded, whilst the matrons, dressed in their richest robes, and accompanied by their children, just as though the war had been brought to a conclusion, and free from every apprehension, offered thanksgivings to the immortal gods.
— from The History of Rome, Books 27 to 36 by Livy

Graham-Smith (1910) "carried out experiments with large numbers of flies kept in gauze cages and fed for eight hours on emulsions of B. typhosus in syrup.
— from Handbook of Medical Entomology by O. A. (Oskar Augustus) Johannsen

“The head, from the extremity of the lips to the beginning of the neck, is two feet four inches, and its circumference about five feet eight inches.
— from Buffon's Natural History. Volume 08 (of 10) Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals, &c. &c by Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de

And in this extremity Fouchard really cut a fine figure, exhibiting all the stubborn impassiveness of an old peasant who knows the value of silence and a calm demeanour.
— from The Downfall (La Débâcle): A Story of the Horrors of War by Émile Zola