The time, therefore, seemed opportune to gather into one volume the recent advances in this field and to offer to the clinician, to the hygienist, and to the biological chemist a presentation of the existing status of this important nutritional disease.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

"The importance of children, and particularly of the eldest son, was greater in feudal houses than elsewhere....
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

Jonathan is willing to share his with everybody, to enrich all the world; [11] he is a cosmopolitan; a part of the earth serves him as larder, and he has all the treasures of the globe with which to keep up his household.
— from Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century by W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport) Adams

"If fruits are wanted in the garden, plant a row of apple trees along the northern border, plums and pears on the western sides, cherries and peaches on the eastern side.
— from Three Acres and Liberty by Bolton Hall

The first is an improved arrangement of apparatus by which cold water is made to enter the exhaust passages of steam cylinders, as near the valves as possible; by condensing a portion of the exhausted steam it becomes hot and then passes off, while the uncondensed steam passes either into the condenser or the atmosphere.
— from The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 by Various

[5:b] [6] Six days later Jesse C. Little was appointed by the Mormon Church authorities president of the Eastern States Mission, and in his letter of appointment was instructed as follows: "If our government shall offer any facilities for emigrating to the western coast, embrace those facilities, if possible.
— from The Mormon Battalion, Its History and Achievements by B. H. (Brigham Henry) Roberts

The main attempt to colonize any portion of the Eastern Steppe with Christians was the planting of a line of Kozak camps in the countries lying between the Volga and the Don—a region in which the soil is less parched, the sand less deep, the herbage less scanty, than elsewhere in these sterile plains.
— from Free Russia by William Hepworth Dixon

[909] There are certain processes which are a continuation of the internal surface of the crust; and serve, as well as the rest of it, for points of attachment to the muscles: these, though completely internal, must be considered as parts of the external skeleton.
— from An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. 3 or Elements of the Natural History of the Insects by William Kirby

Never before has there been such a collection of the works of English painters, and never before has there been an opportunity of studying so fully and satisfactorily the course and progress of the English school.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

My vizirs, beylerbeys, judges of the army, legists, judges, seids, sheiks, my dignitaries of the court and pillars of the empire, sandjakbeys, generals of cavalry or infantry, ... all my victorious army, all my slaves, high or low, my functionaries and employees, the people of my kingdom, my provinces, the citizens and the peasants, the rich and the poor, in short all shall recognize the above‐mentioned grand vizir as serasker, and shall esteem and venerate him in this capacity, regarding all that he says or believes as an order proceeding from my mouth which rains pearls.
— from Ibrahim Pasha: Grand Vizir of Suleiman the Magnificent by Hester Donaldson Jenkins