Eight feet by twelve feet outside makes a good cabin for three or four boys. Cut and carry about twelve logs, each ten feet long; and twelve more, each fourteen feet long.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

The making of a confession, according to laymen, ends the matter, but really, the judge’s work begins with it.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

Then I could produce your confession at the last extremity to save young McCarthy.
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

According to my ideas, of those advantages which a Youth destined to the possession of power and wealth may reap from travel, He should not consider as the least essential, the opportunity of mixing with the classes below him, and becoming an eyewitness of the sufferings of the People.' Forgive me, Lorenzo, if I seem tedious in my narration.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

"I have come for my courage," announced the Lion, entering the room.
— from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

And as the Consumption of this New Body would be a new Market for the Fruits of the Country, all the Lands, especially those most adjacent, would rise in their yearly Value, and pay greater yearly Taxes to the Publick.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Among the devout these ceremonies, and the lyric emotions they awaken, have a quite visible influence; but the spell is mystic, the god soon recedes, and it would be purely fanciful to maintain that any permanent moral effect comes from such an exercise.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

he cried, as the latter entered the room, “what in the name of goodness are we coming to?
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

But as regards attendance at choruses or processions or other shows, and as regards public services, whether the celebration of sacrifice in peace, or the payment of contributions in war—in all these cases, first comes the necessity of providing a remedy for the loss; and by those who will not obey, there shall be security given to the officers whom the city and the law empower to exact the sum due; and if they forfeit their security, let the goods which they have pledged be sold and the money given to the city; but if they ought to pay a larger sum, the several magistrates shall impose upon the disobedient a suitable penalty, and bring them before the court, until they are willing to do what they are ordered.
— from Laws by Plato

In this manner legislators go on accumulating error upon error, and artifice upon artifice, until the mass becomes so bulky and incongruous, and their embarrassment so desperate, that they are compelled, as their last expedient, to resort to the very principle they had violated.
— from The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Volume III. 1791-1804 by Thomas Paine

The single Russian soldier may have been far superior to a Japanese in muscular strength, and perhaps in arms also, but selfishness and greed on the part of many who were responsible for the organization and equipment of the Russian armies rendered the whole fighting machine less coherent and therefore less efficient than that of the Japanese.
— from The Doctrine of Evolution: Its Basis and Its Scope by Henry Edward Crampton

It was very desolate and lonely upstairs that day, for Richard was busy in town, and the wind swept against the windows with a mournful, moaning sound, which made Ethelyn think of dear old Chicopee, and the lofty elms through whose swaying branches the same October wind was probably sighing on this autumnal day.
— from Ethelyn's Mistake by Mary Jane Holmes

A strong infusion or decoction of galls is precipitated with sulphuric acid in the cold; the resulting thick mass is mixed with dilute sulphuric acid (cold), and the liquid expressed; the ‘marc’ is next treated with sulphuric acid diluted with twice its weight of water, and after boiling the mixture for some minutes the whole is allowed to cool; the resulting crystals are purified as before.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I by Richard Vine Tuson

Fruit medium, pyriform, rather elongated, contracted at the lower end terminat
— from The Pears of New York by U. P. Hedrick

Or, if thou mayst not be, Blossom of purity, Mine own to wear and cherish, as the leaves Embrace thee and enfold, Be not so white, so cold: Bloom also for the lonely heart that grieves!
— from Legends & Romances of Spain by Lewis Spence

But its irresistible tendency to degenerate into a depreciated and irredeemable currency, and the lamentable effect this produces, not as a mere matter of dollars and cents, but on the moral feeling and habits of the whole community, are such that I am quite convinced that it is far preferable to do without it.
— from The Life of Albert Gallatin by Henry Adams

Football, with the exception of the final House-match, which had still to come off, was over, and life was in consequence a trifle less exhilarating than it might have been.
— from Tales of St. Austin's by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

nec potes infestis conferre Charybdin Achaeis, ter licet epotum ter uomat illa fretum, qui, quamquam dextra regione licentius errant, securum latus hoc non tamen esse sinunt.
— from The Last Poems of Ovid by Ovid

Practically all cylinders are chamfered at the lower end to make insertion of piston rings easier.
— from Aviation Engines: Design—Construction—Operation and Repair by Victor Wilfred Pagé