On the floor close by, the following articles are placed:— A lamp, having an odd number of cotton wicks, which is kept lighted whatever the hour of day it may be; A measure, called nāzhi, made of jak tree ( Artocarpus integrifolia ) wood, filled to overflowing with rice, and placed on a flat bell-metal plate (talika); A plain white cloth, washed but not new, neatly folded, and placed on the metal plate to the right (south) of the rice; [ 53 ] A small bell-metal vessel (kindi), having no handle, filled with water.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

They tend directly, it may be supposed, to render the goods cheaper in the home market than they otherwise would be.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

From and without the Tower ditch, west and by north, is the said Tower hill, sometime a large plot of ground, now greatly straitened by incroachments (unlawfully made and suffered) for gardens and houses; some on the bank of the Tower ditch, whereby the Tower ditch is marred, but more near unto the wall of the city from the postern north, till over against the principal fore-gate of the Lord Lumley’s house, etc.; but the Tower ward goeth no further that way.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

The palace of crystal may be an idle dream, it may be that it is inconsistent with the laws of nature and that I have invented it only through my own stupidity, through the old-fashioned irrational habits of my generation.
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Yea! glorious is the Church, I ween, but Meekness dwelleth here; Less do I love the lofty oak than mossy nest it bear; More dear is meadow breath than stormy wind:
— from Poems by Victor Hugo

Before finishing dessert, it may be as well to add in detail, that the finger bowl doiley is about five or six inches in diameter; it may be round or square, and of the finest and sheerest needlework that can be found (or afforded).
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

Let alone that, when down, it may be too strong for this one, too weak for that.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

The confederacy is divided into makers, buyers, holders, and pitchers.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

In Greece I had learnt to love him; his very waywardness, and self-abandonment to the impulses of superstition, attached me to him doubly; it might be weakness, but it was the antipodes of all that was grovelling and selfish.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

So sunk, bemired in wretchedest defacements, it may be said of him, like the Magdalen of old, that he loved much: his Father the harshest of old crabbed men he loved with warmth, with veneration.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

In his prose, especially, this directness is marked; but in his poems one feels rather the inner relation with their spirit, for the magnetism of touch is less communicative than in the more flexible medium of prose.
— from The Younger American Poets by Jessie Belle Rittenhouse

“Oh, how dreadful it must be to be all alone in the world, without anybody who trusts you!”
— from The Mystery at Dark Cedars by Edith Lavell

No doubt it may be said that all the greatest improvements in industry—most of what tends to raise man above the condition of the brute animals—proceed from science.
— from Political economy by William Stanley Jevons

207 THE SPARROW-HAWK Accipiter nisus (Linnæus) Numerous and abundant throughout our woodland districts, it must be confessed that this species, especially when rearing its young, does undoubtedly considerable damage among the pheasant coops, and there is less to be said in favour of this bird than is the case with most of the other birds destroyed by the game-preserver.
— from Birds of Britain by J. Lewis (John Lewis) Bonhote

So I cooked another pot of food and lay down in my blanket.
— from The Trail Book by Mary Hunter Austin

Measuring the deformation : The deformation is measured by a compressometer.
— from The Mechanical Properties of Wood Including a Discussion of the Factors Affecting the Mechanical Properties, and Methods of Timber Testing by Samuel J. (Samuel James) Record

For ever, and beside the offerings and Tribute-money, which the Jews offered and paid to the treasurers in the Temple, for maintaining the Tribe of Levi, (the deserving ministers thereof) who, at the distribution and division of the Land of Promise to the Jewish people, had not any lot or partage (but were assigned to the Jews devotion,) inheritances might be legacied to them, which falling into mortmaine, could not be redeemed by any custome of kindred, whatsoever jubilee might be alledged, or selling, or alienating, as it is written in the seaven-and-twentieth of Leviticus.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 563, August 25, 1832 by Various