, 625 Clark, Charles A., 506 , 514 Clark & Host Co., 506 Clarke Bros. & Co., 508 Clay bowls, 616 Cleaning machinery, 246 , 248 , 257 , 383 , 385 Hungerford's patents, 644 Clearing Ass'n, N.Y. Exch., 331 , 335 Clearwater, Judge, 609 Clement VIII, Pope, 26 Climate, Best for c., 198 Closset, Emile, 507 Closset, Joseph, 507 Closset & Devers, 507 Closset Bros., 507 Cloves in c., 696 , 709 Clubs Boston First, 111 Merchants, 111 London Court de Bone Compagnie, 60 Evolution of, 75 Hanover, 577 Literary, 583 London coffee-house Bread Street, 60 Devil Tavern, 60 Friday Street, 60 Mermaid Tavern, 60 Rota, 59 , 60 , 583 Turk's Head, 81 Turk's Head Society, 583 White's, 87 New York Coffee House, 690
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

It is in the upper part of this enormous head, in great cavities divided by cartilages, that is to be found from six to eight hundred pounds of that precious oil called spermaceti.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

Plinianae Exercitat., (p. 781, 782,) and most of the ancients, who often confound the islands of Ceylon and Sumatra, is more clearly described by Cosmas Indicopleustes; yet even the Christian topographer has exaggerated its dimensions.
— 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

Contradictory orders; servants pulling one way; master and mistress driving some other, yet both diverse; visitors huddled up in corners; chairs unsymmetrised; candles disposed by chance; meals at odd hours, tea and supper at once, or the latter preceding the former; the host and the guest conferring, yet each upon a different topic, each understanding himself, neither trying to understand or hear the other; draughts and politics, chess and political economy, cards and conversation on nautical matters, going on at once, without the hope, or indeed the wish, of distinguishing them, make it altogether the most perfect concordia discors you shall meet with.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

Excessive smoking conduces to nicotism, more common in Europe than in the tropics, because the natives of Europe smoke the pipe and being confined in closed dwellings, breathe continuously an atmosphere of smoke; in the Philippines, on the contrary, the pipe is almost unknown and owing to the nature of the dwellings the smoking is carried on practically in the open air.
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera

JULY 10.—to promenade, as usual and customer brought home... $00 25 JULY 11.—To do do do 25 JULY 12.—To one lie, second class; damaged black cloth sold for invisible green............................................... 25 JULY 13.—To one lie, first class, extra quality and size; recommended milled satinet as broadcloth......................
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

Both of them, one in 1652, the other in 1653, made donations of notable sums to Mother Catherine de Bar, called of the Holy Sacrament, a Benedictine nun, for the purpose of founding, to this pious end, a monastery of the order of Saint-Benoît; the first permission for this foundation was given to Mother Catherine de Bar by M. de Metz, Abbé of Saint-Germain, “on condition that no woman could be received unless she contributed three hundred livres income, which amounts to six thousand livres, to the principal.”
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

After travelling about eight miles, through a country diversified by cliffs of basalt and red and white sandstone, in every variety of bold and fantastic form, they came in sight of a quadrangular mass of white sandstone rock, from 200 feet to 250 feet in height.
— from The Lost Atlantis and Other Ethnographic Studies by Wilson, Daniel, Sir

After looking at the books, Anne, opening the closet door by chance, saw a long cedar case upon the floor; it was locked, but the key was in an envelope bearing her name.
— from Anne: A Novel by Constance Fenimore Woolson

The Count de Brienne, Count of Eu and Guisnes, and Constable of France, was accused of an intention to betray his county of Guisnes, adjacent to the town of Calais, to the English monarch.
— from Cassell's History of England, Vol. 1 (of 8) From the Roman Invasion to the Wars of the Roses by Anonymous

The transport arrangements, as in the case of all movements connected with Repatriation or Internment in Switzerland, were, in the case of these officers and men, controlled by Colonel Dr. Bohny, Chief of the Swiss Military Red Cross Department, who, together with his able and noble-minded wife, frequently journeyed on the trains and gave personal supervision to the more serious cases.
— from The British Interned in Switzerland by Henry Philip Picot

[178] The Cornelius Balbus of Gades, whose citizenship Cicero defended B.C. 56 (consul B.C. 40).
— from The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Other superstitions with regard to the points of the compass prevail, certain directions being considered auspicious according to the days of the week.
— from The Kingdom of the Yellow Robe Being Sketches of the Domestic and Religious Rites and Ceremonies of the Siamese by Ernest Young

Sampson had a reputation for being a most amusing and eloquent preacher; and if there were no breakfast, conjurer, dancing bears, concert going on, the good Wells folk would put up with a sermon.
— from The Virginians by William Makepeace Thackeray

What touches the fancy is that here, centuries doubtless before Columbus (perhaps before the time of the Cliff Dwellers) dwelt and toiled an unknown people whose remains are of a type that possesses important points of difference from those found elsewhere within the limits of the United States, though similar ruins exist in Mexico.
— from Finding the Worth While in the Southwest by Charles Francis Saunders

And if delight or ornamentall view invite a comely disposure by circular amputations, as is elegantly performed in Hawthorns; then will they answer the figures made by the conversion of a Rhombus, which maketh two concentrical Circles; the greater circumference being made by the lesser angles, the lesser by the greater.
— from The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, Volume 3 by Browne, Thomas, Sir