One luckless goose, however, either from fright or from having imprudently committed a slight excess in drinking half a bottle of turpentine, had been seized with fits, and remained in an alarming state for many hours.
— from Turkish Harems & Circassian Homes by Andrée Hope

[Pg 57] character are seen excellently in Disraeli's father and paternal grandfather.
— from Modernities by Horace Barnett Samuel

[45] See Scott, "It has been a most fruitful source of false doctrines regarding monetary matters, and is constantly and successfully employed in defense of harmful legislation and as a means of preventing needed monetary reforms." Money and Banking.
— from Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Chester Arthur Phillips

Where a large plant is to be operated and a high power constant and steady energy is demanded, stick to steam, since the gasoline engines of the larger size have not proved so successful, and are certainly by no means so steady; and in such a case the exhaust steam can be used for heating and for various other purposes that will work the greatest economy.
— from Farm Engines and How to Run Them: The Young Engineer's Guide by James H. Stephenson

They afford the same opportunity for using the public moneys, and equally lead to all the evils attendant upon it, since a bank can as safely extend its discounts on a deposit of its notes in the hands of a public officer as on one made in its own vaults.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

From time to time they withdrew, either singly or in little groups, for prayer, contemplation, and spiritual exercises into deserts, caves, or deserted huts; and annually at Pentecost they assembled for mutual edification and counsel in the small chapel at Assisi, dedicated to “Mary of the Angel,” given to St. Francis by the Benedictines.
— from Church History, Volume 2 (of 3) by J. H. (Johann Heinrich) Kurtz

Had these miseries, common to the unhappy prostitute, been alone the punishment of Agnes—had her crimes and sufferings ended in distress like this, her story had not perhaps been selected for a public recital; for it had been no other than the customary history of thousands of her sex.
— from Nature and Art by Mrs. Inchbald