[449] Edith F. Carey, Channel Island Folklore (Guernsey, 1909).
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

per square inch to the condenser, and is suddenly converted into water; an act which produces a vacuum, and diminishes the back-pressure of the exhaust from cylinder C .
— from How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Archibald Williams

and in this case this authority must have emanated from certain civilians named for this purpose by the emperors.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

C'est normal de cloner une oeuvre d'autrui pour en faire cadeau; c'est partager.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Page 284 —contained incorrectly placed index entries for CLIBANUS, CNICOS and CNISSA (following COXA).
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

She saw that I was really ignorant, and had had no intention of being rude to her; whereon it came out that illness of any sort was considered in Erewhon to be highly criminal and immoral; and that I was liable, even for catching cold, to be had up before the magistrates and imprisoned for a considerable period—an announcement which struck me dumb with astonishment.
— from Erewhon; Or, Over the Range by Samuel Butler

To ride backwards up Holborn hill; to go to the gallows: the way to Tyburn, the place of execution for criminals condemned in London, was up that hill.
— from 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

elastic fluid, gas, air, vapor, ether, steam, essence, fume, reek, effluvium, flatus; cloud &c. 353; ammonia, ammoniacal gas[obs3]; volatile alkali; vacuum, partial vacuum.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Feend , sb. enemy, fiend, C2, C3; fend , S, S2; feende , PP; feont , S; ueond , S; fond , MD; fynd , MD; fende , S2, S3; feondes , pl. , S; fendes , S, S2; fiendes , S; vyendes , S2; feendis , W.—AS.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

Whatever good might be expected from Christian charity when left to its own inspiration, and acting in a sphere purely individual, it was not desirable to leave it in this state.
— from Protestantism and Catholicity compared in their effects on the civilization of Europe by Jaime Luciano Balmes

Needless to say, Jimmie went in stronger than ever for candid cameras.
— from Jimmy Drury: Candid Camera Detective by David O'Hara

A small vizzying-hole was unclosed, and the keen grey eye of one of the burghers on guard was seen to survey them strictly under the peak of his morion; for, by an act of the city council, every fourth citizen capable of bearing armour, had to keep watch and ward by night, completely armed with sword and jedwood axe, arquebuss and dagger, for the prevention of surprise from without, and suppression of disturbance within the burgh.
— from Bothwell; or, The Days of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume 2 (of 3) by James Grant

The flare had died down, but in his mind’s eye still stood forth, every feature cut clear in his memory, the face of the stranger.
— from The Mystery at Camp Lenape by Carl Saxon

The demand for food in London and other urban areas made enclosure for crop cultivation even more profitable than for sheep grazing.
— from Our Legal Heritage: King AEthelbert - King George III, 600 A.D. - 1776 by S. A. Reilly

But one never expected from Colonel Clay anything less than consummate cleverness.
— from An African Millionaire: Episodes in the Life of the Illustrious Colonel Clay by Grant Allen