Indeed it is very like the cinnamon of Ceylon, comes in curled quills, has the same odor and taste though not so delicate; but it is darker in color, with a surface less clean and smooth.
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera

V ARIANTS : Ahora comprendo , entiendo , me doy cuenta (or entera cuenta or cuenta cabal ), I can fully account for .
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Since our reports on the actual conditions of Chinese coolies in Cuba and Peru were made, no more coolies have been allowed to leave China for those countries.
— from My Life in China and America by Wing Yung

As the huts were never cleaned out, close contact included contact with feces and urine of infected animals, and contact with, and eating of food contaminated with feces and urine of infected animals, as well as pus from open plague ulcers.
— from Handbook of Medical Entomology by O. A. (Oskar Augustus) Johannsen

The use of machinery in manufactures renders clothing cheap; the cheapness of clothing causes its consumption to increase, not only in the proportion of an increasing population, but by the scale of individual expenditure; the stock of rags is therefore increasing in the same ratio that our looms produce more linen and cotton cloth.
— from Godey's Lady's Book, Philadelphia, Volume 48, March, 1854 by Various

It may be argued that this is merely a chemical process, since the substance which determines the reaction is also modified, the chloride of calcium changing into carbonate of calcium.
— from The Mechanism of Life by Stéphane Leduc

The "comfort" or cheering counsel "in Christ" is the fulness of gospel help and promise.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Philippians by Robert Rainy

V Obviously, the point where this progressive conception of Christianity comes into conflict with many widely accepted ideas is the abandonment which it involves of an external and inerrant authority in matters of religion.
— from Christianity and Progress by Harry Emerson Fosdick

Some say this term is a corruption of “Coarse Chestnut,” in contradistinction to the edible chestnut; others that these chestnuts were formerly ground up and given to horses for food.
— from Phrases and Names, Their Origins and Meanings by Trench H. Johnson

And what is perhaps true of the cycles of cosmic change is certainly true of the re
— from Interpretations of Poetry and Religion by George Santayana

We have already noted English “ chien ” or cyn coins inscribed cun , which is seemingly one of the innumerable puns which confront philology.
— from Archaic England An Essay in Deciphering Prehistory from Megalithic Monuments, Earthworks, Customs, Coins, Place-names, and Faerie Superstitions by Harold Bayley

This always occurs when a condenser of considerable capacity is charged by means of a comparatively small machine.
— from The inventions, researches and writings of Nikola Tesla With special reference to his work in polyphase currents and high potential lighting by Thomas Commerford Martin