After expression De Vry obtained from the caked residue 4% of a crystalline glucoside called by him thevetin .
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera

Usually there were three distinct vessels, one for holding the oil for the sick, a second for use at confirmations, and a third for the baptismal oil.
— from English Villages by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

Sæpe Faunorum voces exauditæ, / Sæpe visæ formæ deorum —Voices of Fauns are often heard, and shapes of gods often seen.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

If we recognised so many different varieties of fish, it was because, attracted by the electric light, they tried to follow us; the greater part, however, were soon distanced by our speed, though some kept their place in the waters of the Nautilus for a time.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

Those who have a relatively direct vision of facts are often incapable of translating their vision into words, while those who possess the words have usually lost the vision.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

This is not the principle on which the labouring classes are professedly governed in any free country; and no person who sets due value on freedom will give his adhesion to their being so governed, unless after all efforts have been exhausted to educate them for freedom and govern them as freemen, and it has been definitively proved that they can only be governed as children.
— from On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

But the swing of the pendulum did not cease with the creation of the liberal “Greek” party; the dazzling vision of freedom was to drive some to a yet more anarchical position.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

The Allied Fleets return to Brest 119 Criticism of the British Ministry 120 Divergent views of France and Spain 120 Prominence given to Gibraltar, and the resulting Effect upon the general War 121 Exhaustion of Supplies at Gibraltar 121 Rodney with the Channel Fleet Sails for its Relief, with ultimate Destination to Leeward Islands Command 121
— from The Major Operations of the Navies in the War of American Independence by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

In parts of the Clyde, from 120 to 150 feet wide, and about 10 feet deep, vessels of from 120 to 150 feet long, with from 16 to 18 feet beam, and from 5 to 6 feet draught, are propelled by engines of from 80 to 100 horse-power, at a speed of from 8 to 9 miles per hour.
— from Waterways and Water Transport in Different Countries With a description of the Panama, Suez, Manchester, Nicaraguan, and other canals. by J. Stephen (James Stephen) Jeans

"What would it matter, so that we didn't have to do the grand hike?" Jimmy asked, afflicted with dizzy visions of five hundred miles of tramping over rough country, supporting themselves, meanwhile, in the most primitive fashion by shooting game, and cooking the same over fires made with flint and steel, or the bow and stick method known to scouts generally.
— from Boy Scouts on Hudson Bay; Or, The Disappearing Fleet by G. Harvey (George Harvey) Ralphson

[Pg 143] colonnade, and pilastered front, and the distant view of the fashionable watering-place of Cardyllian, which also belongs to the family; nothing certainly lends a more dignified charm to the scene, Mr. Verney, than a distant view of family property, where, as in this instance, it is palpably accidental—where it is at all forced, as in the otherwise highly magnificent seat of my friend Sir Thomas Oldbull, baronet; so far from elevating, it pains one, it hurts one's taste"—and Mr. Jos.
— from The Tenants of Malory, Volume 1 by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

The subtle and deceitful visit of Father Johannes to his cell had the effect of thoroughly rousing him to a complete sense of his position, and making him feel the immediate, absolute necessity of bringing all the energy of his will, all the resources of his nature, to bear on its present difficulties.
— from Agnes of Sorrento by Harriet Beecher Stowe

He would have no right to challenge one of them; and if the sanctity of an oath , and the dread of the future scorn and detestation of mankind, did not deter them from the commission of a crying and palpable injustice , his innocence , were it as clear as the noon day , would avail him nothing , and he must unavoidbly sink , the devoted victim of foul conspiracy and deadly revenge .
— from Statistical, Historical and Political Description of the Colony of New South Wales and its Dependent Settlements in Van Diemen's Land With a Particular Enumeration of the Advantages Which These Colonies Offer for Emigration, and Their Superiority in Many Respects Over Those Possessed by the United States of America by W. C. (William Charles) Wentworth

Time Measuring Instruments of Antiquity.—Sun-dial.—Clepsydra, Hour-glass, Graduated Candle.—Plato's Bell.—The Clepsydra of Ctesibius.—Incense Sticks of Chinese.—Sun-dials of Greeks and Romans.—Candles of Alfred the Great.—Wonderful Clocks of the Middle Ages.—Henry de Vick of France, 1370.—Two Hundred Years without Advance.—Astronomers, Brache and Valherius.—1525, Zech's Fusee.—Progenitors of Modern Watch, 1500.—1582, Swinging Lamp of Galileo.—1639, Galileo's Book.—Huygens and the Pendulum.—Dr.
— from Inventions in the Century by William Henry Doolittle