Take three pieces of fine embroidery chenille, and a No. 3 bone crochet hook.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE At nineteen this hopeless dreamer, who had read more books than an old professor, entered Cambridge as a charity student.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

In truth, he began upon this way early: of all the violent, daring, disobedient scapegraces that ever caused an affectionate parent pain, he was certainly the most incorrigible; there was no beating him, or coaxing him, or taming him.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

The "why" of the symptom, its tendency, is in every case an endopsychic process, developed from within, which may or may not have become conscious at first, but could just as readily never have entered consciousness at all and have been unconscious from its inception.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

Everything was astir at the two stations, the French busy with the multitudinous arrangements necessitated by a great military undertaking, the English with less to do, yet maintaining themselves in a state of expectancy and preparation for instant action, that entails constant alertness and mental activity.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

But because he is mortall, and subject to decay, as all other Earthly creatures are; and because there is that in heaven, (though not on earth) that he should stand in fear of, and whose Lawes he ought to obey; I shall in the next following Chapters speak of his Diseases, and the causes of his Mortality; and of what Lawes of Nature he is bound to obey. H2 anchor CHAPTER XXIX.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

Thus all the principal persons except Cordelia and Albany are brought together; and the crises of the double action—the expulsion of Lear and the blinding and expulsion of Gloster—are reached in Act iii.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

In practice you only need eight counters and a simple diagram on a sheet of paper. 220.—A LODGING-HOUSE DIFFICULTY.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

Entire continent and adjacent islands of America; also Europe, Asia, Africa, Polynesia, and Sandwich Islands.
— from A History of North American Birds; Land Birds; Vol. 3 of 3 by Robert Ridgway

Indeed, I am often comparing his rather touchingly inflated naoveti as of a small young person walking on tiptoe while he is talking of elevated things, at the time when he felt himself the author of that unwritten romance, with his present epigrammatic curtness and affectation of power kept strictly in reserve.
— from Impressions of Theophrastus Such by George Eliot

"What will you do," asked the Envoy, categorically, at a subsequent interview about a month later, "to protect the princes in case the Emperor constrains them to leave the provinces which they have unjustly occupied?"
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

, Cupri ammoniati solutio (Ph. E.), C. a. aqua , L. Prep.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume II by Richard Vine Tuson

Heretofore special privileges were accorded to members of the Established Episcopal Church, and all others were cut off from the full enjoyment of the universities.
— from The Grand Old Man Or, the Life and Public Services of the Right Honorable William Ewart Gladstone, Four Times Prime Minister of England by Richard B. (Richard Briscoe) Cook

Octauius then comming to land, eftsoones got possession of Britaine, which should be (as Fabian gathereth) about the yéere of our Lord 329, in the 20 yéere of the reigne of the emperour Constantine, and about two yéeres after that the said Octauius first tooke vpon him to rule as king.
— from Holinshed Chronicles: England, Scotland, and Ireland. Volume 1, Complete by William Harrison

Within two days, eleven cannon and a mortar were brought from the fleet, and mounted in a redoubt on the bank of the river.
— from Hero Stories from American History For Elementary Schools by Francis Kingsley Ball

There were also many arrowpoints in an earthen colander, and a ladle was luted over the mouth of the red vase.
— from Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 by Jesse Walter Fewkes

Miss Clairville's expression, colouring, and animated play of gesture lived again in this mysterious child.
— from Ringfield: A Novel by S. Frances (Susie Frances) Harrison

On one occasion at Homewood, on entering the drawing-room, I found the family excitedly conversing about a terrible incident that had recently occurred.
— from Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie by Andrew Carnegie