[2] The indispensable beverage of strong nations The stream in which we wash away our sorrows The enchanting perfume that a zephyr has brought Favored liquid which fills all my soul with delight The delicious libation we pour on the altar of friendship This invigorating drink which drives sad care from the heart EVOLUTION OF A CUP OF COFFEE COFFEE ARABICA; LEAVES, FLOWERS AND FRUIT Painted from nature by M.E. Eaton—Detail sketches show anther, pistil, and section of corolla
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Remember that I am not speaking of an oblong, but of a figure equal every way, and twice the size of this—that is to say of eight feet; and I want to know whether you still say that a double square comes from double line? BOY: Yes. SOCRATES:
— from Meno by Plato

To what other uneasy couch the good man is hastening, when he slips out of his chamber, folding up his thin douceur so carefully for fear of rustling—is no speculation which he can at present entertain.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

Buz was the son of Milkah, the Moon, and his descendant so came fairly by his theologic ‘moonshine’ of the kind which Carlyle has so well described in his account of Coleridgean casuistry.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

The natural gentleness of my disposition seemed calculated for the employment, if hastiness had not been mingled with it.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Ma se le mie parole esser dien seme che frutti infamia al traditor ch'i' rodo, parlar e lagrimar vedrai insieme.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

There's awful wickedness in it, to my mind; and double-distilled sin coming from such as you, because you're not a fool at all, but have sense enough to profit by experience.
— from Sons of the Morning by Eden Phillpotts

In Leland's "Itinerary" the bishop's epitaph is preserved: "Hic jacet Edmundus de Stafforde intumulatus, Quondam profundus legum doctor reputatus, Verbis facundus, Comitum de stirpe creatus, Felix et mundus
— from Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Exeter A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See by Percy Addleshaw

From the centre of its base there arise four strong, prismatic, radial beams of nearly equal size, the vertical, straight, cephalic horn being little longer than the three divergent, somewhat curved feet.
— from Report on the Radiolaria Collected by H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-1876, Second Part: Subclass Osculosa; Index Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-76, Vol. XVIII by Ernst Haeckel

When Mr Goldsworthy found that Mary did not come to dinner, he drew some conclusions for himself.
— from Sisters by Ada Cambridge

[224] "Demum sub conductionis fine, voces sparserunt, et maxime apud Moronum Cardinalem, me exiguo auditorio profiteri, quod quanquam non omnino verum esset, quinimo ab initio
— from Jerome Cardan: A Biographical Study by W. G. (William George) Waters

I have heard it argued that for the Duke of Argyll not to forfeit his ownership was a true charity to his tenants, as if Iona was still the desert St. Columba found it.
— from Our Journey to the Hebrides by Joseph Pennell