Nearly all Honduras coffee consists of small, round berries, bluish green in color.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

I was only alive to the condensed confidential comfortableness of sharing a pipe and a blanket with a real friend.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

The chief city of Silacena was Sile or Sele, where were eruptions of fire.
— from A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Jacob Bryant

explanation &c (interpretation) 522; lesson, lecture, sermon; apologue[obs3], parable; discourse, prolection[obs3], preachment; chalk talk; Chautauqua [U.S.]. exercise, task; curriculum; course, course of study; grammar, three R's, initiation, A.B.C. &c (beginning) 66. elementary education, primary education, secondary education, technical education, college education, collegiate education, military education, university education, liberal education, classical education, religious education, denominational education, moral education, secular education; propaedeutics[obs3], moral tuition.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

is manifest; for the citizens of London, when they had beheaded him in Cheape, near unto the cathedral church of St. Paule, they buried him in a heap of sand or rubbish in his own house without Temple bar, where he had made great building.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

My wife had, up to that point, been so nervously affected by the innumerable danger signals, consisting chiefly of small guardships painted bright red and provided with bells on account of the fog, that she could not close her eyes, day or night, for the excitement of watching for them and pointing them out to the sailors.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

The observable fact is that, when a certain complex of stimuli has originally caused a certain complex of reactions, the recurrence of part of the stimuli tends to cause the recurrence of the whole of the reactions.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

In the Louis Quatorze cabinets the decorative effect, so far as the woodwork was concerned, was obtained first by the careful choice of suitable veneers, and then, by joining four pieces in a panel, so that the natural figure of the wood runs from the centre, and then a banding of a darker wood forms a frame.
— from Illustrated History of Furniture: From the Earliest to the Present Time by Frederick Litchfield

“I am not the Common Council of Sippiac,” returned Mr. Vanney dryly.
— from Success: A Novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams

The play called the “Countryman” (Ἀγρωστῖνος, i.e. ἀγροῖκος), was an instance of the drama, which illustrated the character of a certain class of society.
— from The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 by Karl Otfried Müller

What illustrations have you observed where the mental content of the moment seemed chiefly thinking (knowledge process); chiefly emotion (feeling process); chiefly choosing , or self-compulsion (willing process)?
— from The Mind and Its Education by George Herbert Betts

They are bucked or boiled, for 4 or 5 hours, in a solution of 1 lb. of crystallised carbonate of soda, dissolved in 5 galls.
— 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

Many of the fast foreign steamships, at a speed of fourteen knots or above, are subsidized; and all our ships, sailing vessels and steamers alike, cargo carriers of slow speed and mail carriers of high speed, have to meet the fact that the original cost of building American ships is greater than is the case abroad; that the wages paid American officers and seamen are very much higher than those paid the officers and seamen of foreign competing countries; and that the standard of living on our ships is far superior to the standard of living on the ships of our commercial rivals.
— from Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Section 2 (of 2) of Supplemental Volume: Theodore Roosevelt, Supplement by Theodore Roosevelt

Ivy and innumerable creepers covered one side of the house; and long weeds cumbered the deserted road.
— from Alice, or the Mysteries — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

He sat alone, upon cushions of a kind of excellent plush, blue; and under his foot curious carpets of silk of diverse colours, like the Persian, but far finer.
— from New Atlantis by Francis Bacon