It "cuts no figure"—we can find— Save peaceful essays, gentle walks, Purring cats, old ladies' talks— But coffee!
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

“I have found out too late,” she added, “that chance alone can make a marriage, contracted for such physical reasons, happy.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

The nearer it is brought to the slide the further away is the conjugate focus ( see p. 239 ), and consequently the image.
— from How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Archibald Williams

To recapitulate, therefore, the reasonings of this section: Every idea is copied from some preceding impression or sentiment; and where we cannot find any impression, we may be certain that there is no idea.
— from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

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— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

The whole of it would be exchanged, I suspect, by readers of a fastidious cast, for such passages as these: "Around, by lifting winds forgot, Resignedly beneath the sky
— from The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

They made delicious food, and the sailors found them an agreeable change from salt pork and hard-tack; so that every ship calling at the islands took great quantities of them on board.
— from The Boys of 1812 and Other Naval Heroes by James Russell Soley

Here he came to hear her talk over last evening's party, and here he delivered fewer of those concise apropos remarks for which he was celebrated, and which had been the despair of a long series of young ladies in turn; for what can you do with a man who, on every occasion, even the most unexpected, has calmly ready for you a neat sentence, politely delivered, like the charmingly folded small parcels which the suave dry-goods clerk hands to you across the counter?
— from Rodman the Keeper: Southern Sketches by Constance Fenimore Woolson

Transcriber's Notes: Punctuation has been standardized; spelling has been preserved as in the original publication except as follows: Page 64 the vote was not unamimous was changed to the vote was not unanimous Page 145 is by far the most improtant crop was changed to is by far the most important crop Page 158 wrested the crown from Sviotopolk was changed to wrested the crown from Sviatopolk Page 161 In 1845 he was succeeded was changed to In 1645 he was succeeded Page 164 member of the Romanof family was changed to member of the Romanoff family Page 167 disintered his mother's last favorite, was changed to disinterred his mother's last favorite, Page 176 by which vesvels may go up was
— from Northern Lands; Or, Young America in Russia and Prussia by Oliver Optic

The following document affords a hint of Lincoln's kindly patience as well as of his capacity for sound practical advice when it was much needed: DEAR JOHNSTON:—Your request for eighty dollars I do not think it best to comply with now.
— from The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And Personal Recollections By Those Who Knew Him by Francis F. (Francis Fisher) Browne

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— from An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent by John Henry Newman

We have no precise information as to the locality where O. Warnerianum grows wild, but there can be no doubt that it comes from some part of Mexico, whence we have other species, e.g. O. Rossii , O. Ehrenbergii , and O. nebulosum , to all of which it is nearly allied.
— from A Monograph of Odontoglossum by Jas. (James) Bateman