Its complete classification by class, sub-class, order, family, genus, and species—How the Coffea arabica grows, flowers, and bears—Other species and hybrids described—Natural caffein-free coffee—Fungoid diseases of coffee T he coffee tree, scientifically known as Coffea arabica , is native to Abyssinia and Ethiopia, but grows well in Java, Sumatra, and other islands of the Dutch East Indies; in India, Arabia, equatorial Africa, the islands of the Pacific, in Mexico, Central and South America, and the West Indies.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Thus it was, however; and the last drop of blood having been extracted from the flints, and the last screw of the rack having been turned so often that its purchase crumbled, and it now turned and turned with nothing to bite, Monseigneur began to run away from a phenomenon so low and unaccountable.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

And consequently does it not of necessity follow that the more divine offspring of the divine Cube in the Land of Four Dimensions, must have 8 bounding Cubes: and is not this also, as my Lord has taught me to believe, "strictly according to Analogy"?
— from Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Illustrated) by Edwin Abbott Abbott

I gave her a check, and I never thought any more of the matter.
— from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

But, Judge Black, I am not a practitioner in the Supreme Court, and I never tried a case in my life anywhere.' "'How long ago were you admitted to the bar?' asked Judge Black.
— from From Canal Boy to President; Or, the Boyhood and Manhood of James A. Garfield by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

"Why," exclaimed Mabel, suddenly noticing that the guests sat stiff and silent, "the girls said I was to be sure to introduce you the moment you came, and I never thought a thing about it.
— from Dandelion Cottage by Carroll Watson Rankin

A Central American Indian never takes a green shafted arrow, nor a spear on which is painted a band of the same color, when he goes out to procure food."
— from The Search for the Silver City: A Tale of Adventure in Yucatan by James Otis

Consider this hotel as your own; its domestics as your domestics; its stores of condiments as your stores of condiments, and its nominal tenant as your most humble servant and friend.
— from The Monikins by James Fenimore Cooper

However this may be, it is certain that the advance of knowledge has gradually widened the distance between mineralogy and its old associates, while it has drawn zoology and botany closer together; so that of late years it has been found convenient (and indeed necessary) to associate the sciences which deal with vitality and all its phenomena under the common head of “biology”; and the biologists have come to repudiate any blood-relationship with their foster-brothers, the mineralogists.
— from Man's Place in Nature, and Other Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley

Letter to Mr. R. W. Crawford announcing intention not to attempt further alteration in basis of borough franchise.
— from The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 2 (of 3) 1859-1880 by John Morley

A couple of guns were brought into position on the banks of the river, to cover Buller's crossing, and, if necessary, to assist his retreat if hard pressed on his return.
— from The Story of the Zulu Campaign by Edmund Verney Wyatt Edgell

this account it lends energy of character , and is necessary to all great actions; for even in the most virtuous designs, how frequently is opposition manifested, which it requires every energy to subdue; those who fight for virtue, require courage
— from Christian Phrenology: A Guide to Self-Knowledge by Joseph Bunney