An occasional sanding kept the plates in such excellent condition that at times it could be plainly seen or at least gravely suspected that they were tinware.
— from The Awakening of the Desert by Julius Charles Birge

BALLIEE and WALTER will continue their highly successful system of DISCRETIONARY INVESTMENTS at the EPSOM MEETING, where they personally attend, and as such a great influx of business is expected during the Derby Week, they have engaged three extra Commissioners to assist them in carrying out the system, and again are sanguine of realising a gold-achieving victory.
— from A History of Advertising from the Earliest Times. by Henry Sampson

One end of this made the ground connection, and the other end led to the aerial, and also to an earth connection through a tuning inductance coil.
— from The Boy's Book of New Inventions by Harry E. (Harry Edward) Maule

The outer ear collects the vibrations, the middle ear conducts them, and the internal converts them into a special physiological condition of the hair-cells and the auditory nerve.
— from Voice Production in Singing and Speaking Based on Scientific Principles (Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged) by Wesley Mills

He was a very plain man—with no especial claims to attention, that I could see, yet I looked at him longer than I did at any one else, and turned and looked at him again as I passed through the doorway.
— from The House of the Whispering Pines by Anna Katharine Green

Many of the modern hotels are equipped with refrigerating plants where they make their own ice, cool their own storage-rooms, freeze the water in glass carafes for the use of their guests, and even cool the air that is circulated through the ventilating system in hot weather.
— from Stories of Inventors: The Adventures of Inventors and Engineers by Russell Doubleday

A version which may prove convenient and not inaccurate, can be obtained by translating each Chinese term according to its context.
— from The Political Doctrines of Sun Yat-sen: An Exposition of the San Min Chu I by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger