The entry of the Bishop into Jerusalem was a unique event in the history of the Holy City, and was thus described by himself:—"On Friday evening we arrived in the city of our forefathers under circumstances of peculiar respect and honour....
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

The boarders dropped in one after another, interchanging greetings and empty jokes that certain classes of Parisians regard as humorous and witty.
— from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

Kant especially lent support to it in recent years with his Critique of Practical Reason , and his three central dogmas.
— from The Wonders of Life: A Popular Study of Biological Philosophy by Ernst Haeckel

Miss Vincent sat at the piano, magnificently dressed in a pale blue chiffon evening dress, with great clusters of pink roses at her belt, at her throat, and in the meshes of her jetty curls.
— from Pretty Madcap Dorothy; Or, How She Won a Lover by Laura Jean Libbey

A covey of partridges ran and halted and ran again in the dewy grass outside his garden railings.
— from Mr. Britling Sees It Through by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

My 23 ‘17 170w + Dial 63:535 N 22 ‘17 150w “There is something a little out of the ordinary in the quiet sanity of Paul Revere Frothingham’s volume of essay-sermons.” + Nation 105:72 Jl 19 ‘17 280w N Y Br Lib News 4:94 Je ‘17 + R of Rs 56:330 S ‘17 80w “Wholesome and helpful as these brief essays are in encouraging the cultivation of personal rectitude and hopefulness, they fall far short of measuring the shock which faith has suffered under the heel of war in Christendom.”
— from The Book Review Digest, Volume 13, 1917 Thirteenth Annual Cumulation Reviews of 1917 Books by Various

These three companies of gods were fully developed [Pg 17] by the period of the Fifth Dynasty, and there is little doubt that the Egyptian theology owed the formation of this pantheon to the caste of priests ruling at Heliopolis.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Egypt by Lewis Spence

They are the subject of ridicule in all the plays and poems of the time; yet the sort of practice of arms which they had acquired, enabled them to withstand the charge of Prince Rupert and his gallant cavalry, who were then foiled for the first time.
— from Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6 (of 10) by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart

In the former cable each conductor is separately insulated with a compound containing about 35 per cent of pure rubber and having a radial thickness of 7 ⁄ 32 -inch.
— from Electric Transmission of Water Power by Alton D. Adams