With the left hand knot the threads that are pinned down on to the cord, looping each end twice round it, upwards from below and then drawing it through between the two loops or knots thus formed, pulling each knot to the left as you tighten it round the cord.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

She had never been in India and ruled Grandpapa's house with true Dutch conscientiousness, leaving Elly entirely to her hobby of the moment; for Elly had her hobbies, which she rode until she attained absolute perfection, after which she would take up a fresh one.
— from Old People and the Things That Pass by Louis Couperus

The scenery of the peninsula is wild and savage; the villages, hedged in by impenetrable thickets of cactus, cling like eagles’ eyries to the faces of apparently inaccessible cliffs, and are reached by stony and exceedingly toilsome footpaths—the only semblance of roads in these secluded highlands.
— from Studies in Greek Scenery, Legend and History Selected from His Commentary on Pausanias' 'Description of Greece,' by James George Frazer

There was only one colour, lead, everywhere, except the Humming-top and the blackened ruins of a factory over on the American side.
— from Hesperothen; Notes from the West, Vol. 1 (of 2) A Record of a Ramble in the United States and Canada in the Spring and Summer of 1881 by Russell, William Howard, Sir

By F. C. Lewis , Esq., Engraver to the Queen.
— from A Sketch of Assam: With some account of the Hill Tribes by Butler, John, Major

OHLENDORF: I, personally, did not negotiate at all with anyone on this subject, as I was not the person directly concerned with these matters; but the High Command of the Army negotiated with the competent local Einsatzkommando either through the responsible army office, which at all times was in touch with the Einsatzkommandos, namely the I-C or the I-CAO, or else through the staff of the OQ.
— from Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremburg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946, Volume 4 by Various

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— from Tortoises by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Quando se le remite algun expurgatorio se le dice al comisario que ante dos religiosos los mas doctos, y sino hubiere dos sacerdotes, haga el expurgatorio al tenor del que se le remite, y que ponga en el principio de los que expurgare y borrare como los expurgó en tantos de tal mes y año.
— from A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 3 by Henry Charles Lea