[1] CONCENTRATE WHICH THE ROMANS CALL “COLOR”
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

The President's offices are connected with the White House.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

Dr. Maudsley, for example, writes: "When an idea which we have once had is excited again, there is a reproduction of the same nervous current, with the conscious addition that it is a reproduction—it is the same idea plus the consciousness that it is the same.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

And, as designing parasites, when they seek invitations to the tables of the rich, have in mind nothing except what will, in their opinion, be most acceptable to their audience --for in no other way can they secure their ends, save by setting snares for the ears--so it is with the teachers of rhetoric, they might be compared with the fisherman, who, unless he baits his hook with what he knows is most appetizing to the little fish, may wait all day upon some rock, without the hope of a catch.”
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

If, for instance, the good state is firmness of flesh it follows that the bad state is flabbiness of flesh; and whatever causes firmness of flesh is connected with the good state.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

An editorial in the Territorial Enterprise of that day says of him and of the occasion: “He spoke and acted with the fearlessness and resolution of a Jackson; but the jury failed to indict, or even report on the charges, while threats of violence were heard in every quarter, and an attack on the U.S. troops intimated, if he persisted in his course.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

Returning to France after the downfall of the Empire, he lived, in 1818, in straitened circumstances, with the herdsman Vergniaud, an old lieutenant of his regiment, on rue du Petit-Banquier, Paris.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

And the hippopotami heard my call, and came, with the behemoth, unto the foot of the rock, and roared loudly and fearfully beneath the moon.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

The tree to which Rudy clung was thus overthrown, and Rudy dashed to the ground.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Directly back of it lay the Retreat woods, which were very convenient for the disappearance of the characters when their parts were finished, and especially so for Martin Luther, who had to nail his ninety-five theses on the door of the Retreat.
— from The Girl from the Big Horn Country by Mary Ellen Chase

This observance is also enjoined by the laws of Canute, about 1032, which decree “all divine rites and offices, let every one studiously keep and observe; the feast-days and the fasts, let him celebrate with the utmost ceremony.”
— from Knowledge for the Time A Manual of Reading, Reference, and Conversation on Subjects of Living Interest, Useful Curiosity, and Amusing Research by John Timbs

It was surrounded with a regular counterscarp, bastions, and casemates, while the proximity of the ocean and the humid nature of the soil ensured it a network of foss and canal on every side.
— from History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-1609) by John Lothrop Motley

Those who are continually with the natives in these gatherings do get "acclimated," but I am having a hard struggle along these lines.
— from A Woman who went to Alaska by May Kellogg Sullivan

Wherever he stops to dine or sup, he finds a room hung with the richest tapestry, and the floor covered with Turkey carpets, with velvet chairs, and every other kind of convenience; a table sumptuously served, the choicest wines, and a dessert of fruit and confectionery that Paris itself could not excel.
— from History of Frederick the Second, Called Frederick the Great. by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

[1960] The account, as is so often the case with the Table-Talk, is written in a mixture of Latin and German; it is also distinguished by the same spontaneity and absence of constraint.
— from Luther, vol. 5 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

The voices of the children, which had lately been so clamorous with their joyous shouts, are now hushed and still.
— from The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford by Walter Scott

The last letter I got, he had had a trip by sea, and said he felt perfectly different till he got back to Colombo, when the oppression seized him again.
— from Juliana Horatia Ewing And Her Books by Horatia K. F. Eden

A committee was then empowered to manage this lottery, and agents were appointed in the several States to sell the tickets.
— from The Olden Time Series, Vol. 1: Curiosities of the Old Lottery Gleanings Chiefly from Old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts by Henry M. (Henry Mason) Brooks

While Prof. Richard Owen will compare the orang with man, and therefore deduce all races of the latter to be of one species, he divides the genus cervus into several other genera, and yet there is no difference in their internal anatomy; while he considers the horse and the ass as two distinct genera, and says that a certain fossil horse-tooth, carefully compared with the corresponding tooth of the recent horse, showed no differences, excepting in being a little more curved, he considers it a distinct species, under the name of equus curvidens; and yet,
— from The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind by Gobineau, Arthur, comte de