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It was not only that a fire was (p. 050) made and that the pantry filled up in the most extraordinary manner; but a real Christmas tree sprang up, out of the floor, as it were, and was found to be all besprinkled with gold and stars and cornucopias with sugarplums.
— from Children of the Tenements by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis
To this end marriage became a religious ceremony.
— from The Historical Child Paidology; The Science of the Child by Oscar Chrisman
A woman, she explained, must be a Roman Catholic, or have some influence with the Board, to get an appointment.
— from The Web of Life by Robert Herrick
It was to be understood that Elizabeth must be a Roman Catholic, and, if not one already, must repudiate her errors and become one.
— from History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 by William Hickling Prescott
His first live-report did not bode well; the FDR Drive was tied up very early; might be a rough commute.
— from Terminal Compromise by Winn Schwartau
Women were everywhere making blue and red cockades—the white was not absolutely essential; the blacksmiths were forging arms; and it has been calculated that in thirty-six hours fifty thousand pikes were made.
— from Old and New Paris: Its History, Its People, and Its Places, v. 1 by H. Sutherland (Henry Sutherland) Edwards
Before proceeding farther we had better state that a French metre is equal to 3 feet 3·371 inches; consequently, 1,000 metres (or a kilometre) are equal to 1093·6389 English yards; an English mile is 1760 yards or 1609·31 French metres; 100 kilometres are 62¼ English miles; but a rough conversion of kilometres into English miles can always be made by multiplying the number of the former by 5 and dividing by 8; vice versâ to convert English miles into kilometres—multiply the number of the former by 8 and divide by 5.
— from Rambles on Railways by Roney, Cusack P., Sir
Now, these four dates—1834, 1842, 1847, 1851—may be considered as four starting-points, each marked by a renewed conquest of man over the waves, and a strengthened but not hostile rivalry on the seas between nation and nation.
— from Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 451 Volume 18, New Series, August 21, 1852 by Various
Ethel might be a remarkably clever and capable woman; he knew perfectly well that she was just as able with her fingers as her brain, and did nearly all the upholstering and dressmaking of the household in her evening free time; but wasnt she just a little superior and self-satisfied also - just a little unkindly indifferent to the monotony and dulness of her young sisters existence?
— from Winding Paths by Gertrude Page
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