Its thirty chapters include about every phase of the subject one can think of, making it an indispensable work to the master plumber, the journeyman plumber, and the apprentice plumber, containing chapters on: the plumber’s tools; wiping solder; composition and use; joint wiping; lead work; traps; siphonage of traps; venting; continuous venting; house sewer and sewer connections; house drain; soil piping, roughing; main trap and fresh air inlet; floor, yard, cellar drains, rain leaders, etc.; fixture wastes; water closets; ventilation; improved plumbing connections; residence plumbing; plumbing for hotels, schools, factories, stables, etc.; modern country plumbing; filtration of sewage and water supply; hot and cold supply; range boilers; circulation; circulating pipes; range boiler problems; hot water for large buildings; water lift and its use; multiple connections for hot water boilers; heating of radiation by supply system; theory for the plumber; drawing for the plumber.
— from Aviation Engines: Design—Construction—Operation and Repair by Victor Wilfred Pagé

"Then, tell me, what does St. Paul really mean, to what custom does he allude, when he says, 'Even if I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing'?" "Custom!" said I.
— from The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok by Anna Harriette Leonowens

"I never drink, Sir Percival," replied Moore, endeavoring to look virtuous without much success.
— from Tom Moore: An Unhistorical Romance Founded on Certain Happenings in the Life of Ireland's Greatest Poet by Theodore Burt Sayre

"But, my dear Sir Philip," replied Marlow, "let us suppose for one moment that this claim is a fictitious one, and that it is supported by fraud and forgery, you will allow that more than a few months are required to investigate all the particulars thoroughly, and to detect the knavery which may have been committed?"
— from The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 by Various

It was not often that anything of interest happened, and the days sometimes passed rather monotonously.
— from Mutiny Memoirs: Being Personal Reminiscences of the Great Sepoy Revolt of 1857 by A. R. D. (Alfred Robert Davidson) Mackenzie

“Do so, please,” requested Miss Cumberford, in her even, subdued voice.
— from The Flying Girl by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

On the Boulevard des Italiens, I felt homesick, and I hurried back to the river, where the sight of the Rue des Saints Pères revived me.
— from The Inferno by August Strindberg