The government in some of its agencies takes [Pg 595] over certain of their obligations, such as the support of wife and children, and they clear out, free from the whole sordid problem of poverty, into a situation filled with dramatic interest.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Dilute to 75–100 cc., heat in a water-bath to 60°–65° C., and for percentages below 5 add 20–25 cc. of freshly filtered molybdate solution.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

First, in hearing them apart, you have the advice of every man; but in an Assembly may of them deliver their advise with I, or No, or with their hands, or feet, not moved by their own sense, but by the eloquence of another, or for feare of displeasing some that have spoken, or the whole Assembly, by contradiction; or for feare of appearing duller in apprehension, than those that have applauded the contrary opinion.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

In North Wales the peasantry kneel and pray over the graves of their deceased friends for several Sundays after the interment; and where the tender rite of strewing and planting flowers is still practised, it is always renewed on Easter, Whitsuntide, and other festivals, when the season brings the companion of former festivity more vividly to mind.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

The labors of every kind performed on the coasts of France from 1803 to 1805 will be among the most remarkable monuments of the activity, foresight, and skill of Napoleon.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

The third in standing corn, or fallow fields, and the borders of such like fields.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

Now, seeing that Andrea had applied himself in his youth to the study of architecture, there came occasion for him to be employed in this by the Commune of Florence; for Arnolfo being dead and Giotto absent, he was commissioned to make the design of the Castle of Scarperia, which is in the Mugello, at the foot of the mountains.
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi by Giorgio Vasari

A couple of figs for your Great Captain and your Diego Garcia!” Hearing this Dorothea said in a whisper to Cardenio, “Our landlord is almost fit to play a second part to Don Quixote.”
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Not so my English servant, who declared that the woods were frightful to look upon; that it was a country only fit for wild beasts; that she hated it with all her heart and soul, and would go back as soon as she was able.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

Cup of fruit fringed; apex of lobes of leaves generally rounded; trees of lowland 7 Q. macrocarpa.
— from Trees of Indiana First Revised Edition (Publication No. 13, Department of Conservation, State of Indiana) by Charles Clemon Deam

Worn out in body and spirit, he flung himself on his bed, fell asleep, and only awoke to the sound of some commotion in the house, and cries of "Father, father.
— from Katharine Frensham: A Novel by Beatrice Harraden

RELATED WORK LESSON LXXV COST OF FOOD FOODS DIFFER GREATLY IN COST.—One pound of rice costs much less than one pound of beefsteak.
— from School and Home Cooking by Carlotta C. (Carlotta Cherryholmes) Greer

Instead of the globes imported from London which became so black and opaque from smoke for lack of air, when the lamps were lighted, that they had to be cleaned every day, and which, moreover, were totally wrecked by a single blow, he suggested that the coverings for the city lamps should be composed of four flat panes, with a long funnel above and inlets below for the free circulation of air.
— from Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed, Volume 1 (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Wiliam Cabell Bruce

Another class of Frenchmen favour a monarchy; but perhaps the largest class is composed of true republicans.
— from The Anglo-Saxon Century and the Unification of the English-Speaking People by John R. (John Randolph) Dos Passos

The whole political atmosphere of Europe was mephitic with falsehood, and certainly the gales which blew from the English court at the accession of James were not fragrant, but De Rosny had himself come over from France under false pretences.
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

On a cargo of flour from Boston, 7,000 barrels, we made a profit of 200 per cent, the flour selling for £4 sterling the barrel.
— from My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands, Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year by George Francis Train

The following extract from Southern Historical Papers , written about the year 1890, by Colonel Lamb, the commander of Fort Fisher, gives a glimpse of the social side of life at the fort during the War between the States and of some of the distinguished gentlemen who were drawn into this dangerous traffic by a love of adventure, by sentiment, or by sympathy with the Confederate cause, and by the promise of large profits for successful enterprises.
— from Derelicts: An Account of Ships Lost at Sea in General Commercial Traffic And a Brief History of Blockade Runners Stranded Along the North Carolina Coast, 1861-1865 by James Sprunt