I was a very happy little child with rosy cheeks, and large blue eyes, and the most beautiful golden ringlets you can imagine.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

Very thin bread that is roasted in the oven until it is curled and light brown (exactly like a large Saratoga chip), is often made for those who don't eat butter, and is also suitable for dinner.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

Now from E and F describe with the same radius the intersecting arcs at G and draw F G. Finally make I K equal to H C and L B equal to A D. If we now draw I L, it should be parallel to F G, and all the six pieces are marked out.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

This taking of the British fleet to the head of the Chesapeake, coupled with the ascent of the Potomac in 1814 by English sailing-frigates, shows another weak line in the chain of the American colonies; but it was not, like that of the Hudson and Champlain, a line both ends of which rested in the enemy's power,—in Canada on the one hand, on the sea on the other.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

THE THIRD STORY Day the Third UNDER COLOUR OF CONFESSION AND OF EXCEEDING NICENESS OF CONSCIENCE, A LADY, BEING ENAMOURED OF A YOUNG MAN, BRINGETH A GRAVE FRIAR, WITHOUT HIS MISDOUBTING HIM THEREOF, TO AFFORD A MEANS OF GIVING ENTIRE EFFECT TO HER PLEASURE Pampinea being now silent and the daring and subtlety of the horsekeeper having been extolled by several of the company, as also the king's good sense, the queen, turning to Filomena, charged her follow on; whereupon she blithely began to speak thus, "I purpose to recount to you a cheat which was in very deed put by a fair lady upon a grave friar and which should be so much the more pleasing to every layman as these [—friars, to wit—], albeit for the most part very dull fools and men of strange manners and usances, hold themselves to be in everything both better worth and wiser than others, whereas they are of far less account than the rest of mankind, being men who, lacking, of the meanness of their spirit, the ability to provide themselves, take refuge, like swine, whereas they may have what to eat.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

Maragogipe, t & m n A variety of Coffea arabica ; large bean, elephantine roast, woody in the cup.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Under his direction the hall of the Inner Temple and the Temple Church were restored, and he compiled a little book entitled Facts and Observations relating to the Temple Church and the Monuments contained in it , 1811.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

Does he require any thing else, who orders that one consul at least be elected from the commons; nor does he grant you the power of electing two patricians?
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

For if it were definitely known that in France or Switzerland in the year 1896, or thereabouts, a group of International Jews, assembled in conference, drew up a program of world conquest it would still have to be shown that such a program was more than a mere vagary, that it was confirmed at large by efforts to fulfill it.
— from The International Jew : The World's Foremost Problem by Anonymous

Then one morning came a long, businesslike envelope, with a typewritten address, that caused a stir in the family circle.
— from Billie Bradley and Her Inheritance; Or, The Queer Homestead at Cherry Corners by Janet D. Wheeler

If a statement is permitted, why cannot a lawyer be employed in Court to make it more convincing and exculpatory?
— from Gandhi and Anarchy by Sankaran Nair, C. (Chettur), Sir

man appeared there when, by the slow accumulation of fertile earth, the country at last became equal to his support...."
— from A History of Art in Ancient Egypt, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Charles Chipiez

With the prodigious crowd of people from all the countries of Europe who were crowded together in the towns of the Netherlands, a multitude of religious opinions had also grown up; and it was impossible that religion could any longer be effectually superintended by so few eyes as were formerly sufficient.
— from History of the Revolt of the Netherlands — Complete by Friedrich Schiller

In some small country villages the cottages are lit by electricity even in England, but these are generally within easy reach of water power.
— from The Romance of Modern Invention Containing Interesting Descriptions in Non-technical Language of Wireless Telegraphy, Liquid Air, Modern Artillery, Submarines, Dirigible Torpedoes, Solar Motors, Airships, &c. &c. by Archibald Williams

" There are little canals and little bridges everywhere, and little towns scattered here and there all over the broad, flat country.
— from Our Little Dutch Cousin by Blanche McManus

He would come at last between eight and nine in the evening; and then loaded with papers and books.
— from The Song of Songs by Hermann Sudermann

How the devil can a landing be effected on that isle which God has defended so completely?"
— from The Vicomte De Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas

Cooking, Heating, Cleaning and Lighting by Electricity 171 A Final Word 187 Index 189 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
— from The Labour-saving House by Peel, C. S., Mrs.