n the call of marriage bans in church.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Such a Set, with the last Conclusion tacked on, is called a ‘ Sorites ’; the original Set of Propositions is called its ‘ Premisses ’; each of the intermediate Conclusions is called a ‘ Partial Conclusion ’ of the Sorites; the last Conclusion is called its ‘ Complete Conclusion ,’ or, more briefly, its ‘ Conclusion ’; the Genus, of which all the Terms are Species, is called its ‘ Universe of Discourse ’, or, more briefly, its ‘ Univ. ’; the Terms, used as Eliminands in the Syllogisms, are called its ‘ Eliminands ’; and the two Terms, which are retained, and therefore appear in the Conclusion, are called its ‘ Retinends ’.
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll

they are composed of methyl brucine iodide ( C 23 H 25 (CH 3 )N 2 O 4 HI ).
— from Poisons, Their Effects and Detection A Manual for the Use of Analytical Chemists and Experts by Alexander Wynter Blyth

But as this just right temperature varies with the condition of my body, it cannot be ascertained by simply using a thermometer.
— from Aristotle by A. E. (Alfred Edward) Taylor

In the morning, having agreed for a canoe to carry over my bundles, I crossed the river, which came up to my knees as I sat on my horse; but the water is so clear, that from the high bank the bottom is visible all the way over.
— from Life and Travels of Mungo Park by Mungo Park

Undoubtedly in contracts made for army and navy supplies and construction during the early days of the war there was not infrequently loss to the contractor by reason of the advance in the cost of labor resulting from the withdrawal of so large a body of men for service in the field and the indirect result of this upon the cost of material; but I can not believe that it is the purpose of Congress to reopen such contracts at this late day and to pay to the contractors the cost of the work or material which they stipulated to do or deliver at fixed prices.
— from A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 9, part 1: Benjamin Harrison by Benjamin Harrison

Inspiration, like God's omnipresence, is not limited to the few writers claimed by the Jews, Christians, or Mohammedans, but is co- extensive with the race.
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete by Abraham Lincoln

The land which I had inherited was a narrow strip, consisting mostly of sand, and extending for rather over two miles round the coast of Mansie Bay, in Caithness.
— from The Captain of the Polestar, and Other Tales by Arthur Conan Doyle

And as for the Usefulness of these, I can speak it of my own Experience, that whensoever I was most beset with pestilential Fumes, in the Course of my Business, I could then immediately perceive a shooting Pain in my Issue, and had a great deal of an ill conditioned Matter discharge from it; and this I always looked upon as a sure Warning to have timely recourse to Alexipharmicks .
— from Loimologia: Or, an Historical Account of the Plague in London in 1665 With Precautionary Directions Against the Like Contagion by John Quincy

She must bestow her confidence on me before I can use it: while he—" "While he, as the cause of the disease, is what you ought to treat; and not her unhappiness, which is only a symptom of it."
— from Two Years Ago, Volume I by Charles Kingsley

I was full of sand—eyes, mouth, ears—and it was a couple of minnits before I could force myself back to work.
— from Mark Tidd in the Backwoods by Clarence Budington Kelland

An almost irresistible—I was about to say ungovernable—impulse to seize her in my arms came over me, but I conquered it and rushed after Mr. Bangs, as blind as a bat and reeling for a dozen steps or more.
— from A Fool and His Money by George Barr McCutcheon