He sold the freshly roasted product "in pots of various sizes from one to twenty weight, well packed down, either for sea or family use so as to keep good for twelve months."
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

”—Here, after shedding some tears, she related everything concerning that fact, suppressing only those circumstances which would have most reflected on her daughter, and concluded with saying, “Now, madam, you shall judge whether I can ever do enough for so kind, so good, so generous a young man; and sure he is the best and worthiest of all human beings.”
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Let A, B, C, D, E, F, G represent an habitual chain of muscular contractions, and let a, b, c, d, e, f stand for the respective sensations which these contractions excite in us when they are successively performed.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

By a similar process to that which developed avenging Furies out of the detective dawn— Erinyes from Saranyu, Satan from Lucifer 6 —this subtle Spy might have become also a retributive and finally a malignant power.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

Beneath my feet was a rich and velvety carpet of brilliant and varied colours; an immense tract of forest, amidst which the fields of rice and the unwooded spots appeared like little streaks of green; beyond, the ground, rising gradually, swells into hills of different elevations; farther still to the north and [127] east, in the form of a semicircle, is the mountain-chain of Phrabat and that of the kingdom of Muang-Lôm; and in the extreme distance those of Korat, fully sixty miles distant.
— from Travels in the Central Parts of Indo-China (Siam), Cambodia, and Laos (Vol. 1 of 2) During the Years 1858, 1859, and 1860 by Henri Mouhot

This aggregate could not always have been deemed exhaustive, for sometimes other gods are mentioned in addition to the thirty-three.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

The latter are supposed to be derived entirely from sense and observation, by which we learn what has actually resulted from the operation of particular objects, and are thence able to infer, what will, for the future, result from them.
— from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

Suwarrow, who was standing in his shirt Before a company of Calmucks, drilling, Exclaiming, fooling, swearing at the inert, And lecturing on the noble art of killing,— For deeming human clay but common dirt, This great philosopher was thus instilling His maxims, which to martial comprehension Proved death in battle equal to a pension;— Suwarrow, when he saw this company Of Cossacques and their prey, turn'd round and cast Upon them his slow brow and piercing eye:— 'Whence come ye?'—'From Constantinople last, Captives just now escaped,' was the reply.
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

Philosophical knowledge, if what has been said above is true, does not differ essentially from scientific knowledge; there is no special source of wisdom which is open to philosophy but not to science, and the results obtained by philosophy are not radically different from those obtained from science.
— from The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

Many mothers and even some physicians have jumped from one baby food to another baby food; they have tried this and they have tried that, until the poor child, 180 having been the victim of a number of such dietetic experiments, finally succumbed.
— from The Mother and Her Child by William S. (William Samuel) Sadler

"I should think Judy would have sense enough to see she's being made to discuss every friend she has," she thought.
— from Molly Brown's Senior Days by Nell Speed

It is obvious that this difference concerning the origin of our moral conceptions forms part of the very much wider metaphysical question, whether our ideas are derived exclusively from sensation or whether they spring in part from the mind itself.
— from History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) by William Edward Hartpole Lecky

The cellars extended deep into the rocks; they had often been used as dungeons, especially for state criminals.
— from The Scarlet Banner by Felix Dahn

Our party was too fatigued to pitch its own tents and prepare its own meal, and gladly accepted the foreman's hospitality at the rate of two dollars a day each, for some of his fat pork, pea soup, and fairly good bread.
— from The Pioneer Woodsman as He Is Related to Lumbering in the Northwest by George Henry Warren

The iron industry accordingly disappeared entirely from Sussex, and was re-established in the other districts.
— from A Short History of English Liberalism by W. Lyon (Walter Lyon) Blease

L'ala secorre e délivrer E faire sempres remonter.
— from Master Wace, His Chronicle of the Norman Conquest From the Roman De Rou by Wace

However, I feigned an interest in his weakness, for I was drunk enough for such small sycophancy.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

You know how men and women deal with one another when they are in desperate earnestness for something to be done.
— from Godliness : being reports of a series of addresses delivered at James's Hall, London, W. during 1881 by Catherine Mumford Booth