beans whose flavor and taste are praised by brokers; Dewevrei , having curled edged leaves, stiff branches, thick-skinned berries, sometimes pink flowers, beans generally smaller than in C. liberica , but of little interest to the trade; Arnoldiana , a species near to Coffea Abeokutæ having darker foliage and the even colored small berries; Laurentii Gillet , a species not to be confused with the C. Laurentii belonging to the robusta coffee, but standing near to C. liberica , characterized by oblong rather than thin-skinned berries; Excelsa , a vigorous, disease-resisting species discovered in 1905 by Aug. Chevalier in West Africa, in the region of the Chari River, not far from Lake Tchad.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Ice caverns would be a complete change, and the cold air would, no doubt, send our blood tingling through our veins just as if we were out a-sleighing in the upper world on a winter’s night, when the stars twinkle over our heads and the snow crystals creak beneath our runners.
— from Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood

Justus was consecrated Bishop of Rochester in 604, and succeeded Mellitus as Primate in 624 ( v. II, 3 , foll.).
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

They both partook of the cake, but obstinately refused the wine, in spite of their hostess’s hospitable attempts to force it upon them.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

After draining many capacious bowls of Rhaetian or Falernian wine, he called for the skull of Cunimund, the noblest and most precious ornament of his sideboard.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

B. Axillary artery, crossed by one root of the median nerve; b , basilic vein, forming, with a , the axillary vein, A. C. Coraco-brachialis muscle.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

one of those which we killed yesterday was of a creemcoloured white while the other in company with it was of the common bey or rdish brown, which seems to be the most usual colour of them.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

He married and had a daughter, whom he took, with his wife, to the celebrated ball tendered by Cesar Birotteau on rue Saint-Honore, Sunday, December 17, 1818.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

It is not very easy to unravel the various motives which combine to make up this customary behaviour on receiving and [ 353 ] giving a gift.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

Here are opportunities for innocent industrious families, where children can be brought up to be manly and simple and true and brave as their fathers were brought up, or as their fathers expressed it 'in the nurture and admonition of the Lord;' while such neighbours as their dark brothers-in-law might have a chance of a rise in life, in the only sense in which a 'rise' can be of real benefit to them.
— from The English in the West Indies; Or, The Bow of Ulysses by James Anthony Froude

Before passing to the next division of the subject—the computations based on rhythms—a few words may be given to the results which have been obtained from the study of continuous processes.
— from The Popular Science Monthly, August, 1900 Vol. 57, May, 1900 to October, 1900 by Various

Falling readily into their notion of being bound up into a tribe, she suggested how nice it would be if the tribe could be of real use in the village, and the children, delighted to see a grown-up person entering seriously into a project which they had tried hard to persuade themselves was serious, were hearty in their acceptance of her proposals.
— from Castle Blair: A Story of Youthful Days by Flora L. (Flora Louisa) Shaw

If he would only go away before Brooks came back or Richard Fleming arrived!
— from The Bat by Mary Roberts Rinehart

The reason why so much writing and preaching sounds hollow and insincere compared with his is that the writers and speakers are mostly under the influence of current beliefs or received traditions; they deliver themselves of what they have been taught, or what is fashionable and pleasant; they draw upon a sort of public fund of conviction and sentiment and not at all from original private resources, as he did.
— from Fresh Fields by John Burroughs

This is a case of causation, but of remote causation; and is said to be explained when it is shown that there is an intermediate link, namely, the separation of some of the chemical elements of the organic structure from the rest, and their entering into combination with the acid.
— from A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive by John Stuart Mill

To that interrogatory the count answered, with a faint and trembling voice, that he was not conscious to himself of any crime, cognizable by the Holy Court, nor indeed by any other; that he believed and ever had believed whatever holy mother church believed or required him to believe.
— from Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal An Authentic Narrative of the Horrors, Mysteries, and Cruelties of Convent Life by Sarah J. Richardson

Drew knew that sounded curt, but Oliveri ruffled him.
— from Rebel Spurs by Andre Norton

The words sounded as if he meant his own end and not that of their excursion through the palace, and it seemed like a mockery of the man himself when Pontius unhesitatingly replied with decision: “Good, then we can begin our re-examination here, at once.”
— from The Emperor — Complete by Georg Ebers