Judging that I could easily make an opening large enough for my requirements in about an hour, I returned to my cell, and spent four hours in cutting up my bedclothes and every piece of drapery I could find there, and making a rope of the shreds.
— from Wonderful Escapes by Frédéric Bernard

From the French of M. Armengaud the elder, Professor of Design in Conservatoire of Arts and Industry, Paris, and MM.
— from Scientific American, Volume 40, No. 13, March 29, 1879 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures by Various

This type of crepe is to be noted for the excessive period of drying in comparison with other crepes of equal thinness.
— from The Preparation of Plantation Rubber by Sidney Morgan

On the 12th the regiment encamped on the banks of the Huve near Eimbeck, from whence it proceeded in the early part of December into cantonments in the bishopric of Osnaburg.
— from Historical Record of the Fifth Regiment of Foot, or Northumberland Fusiliers Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1674, and of Its Subsequent Services to 1837 by Richard Cannon

In 1761 the Importation Act was passed, an attempt to enforce payment of duty, in consequence of which English ships went far to ruin trade with the West Indies.
— from The Story of the Highland Regiments by Frederick Watson

He can take certificates or acceptances of one thousand barrels each, payable on demand in crude-oil at any shipping-point in the oil-region.
— from Sketches in Crude-oil Some accidents and incidents of the petroleum development in all parts of the globe by John J. (John James) McLaurin

The amount of labour they perform is almost unbelievable; every particle of dirt is carried away between their chin and fore-paws.
— from The Human Side of Animals by Royal Dixon

From the French of M. Armengaud the elder, Prof. of Design in Conservatoire of Arts and Industry, Paris, and MM.
— from Scientific American, Volume 22, No. 1, January 1, 1870 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. by Various

The entire process of decomposition is carried on in reverberatory furnaces, into which a mixture of 1,000 parts of sodium sulphate, 1,040 parts of calcium carbonate (as a somewhat porous limestone), and 500 parts of small coal is introduced from above.
— from The Principles of Chemistry, Volume I by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev

These terms apply equally to the land-surface, and each period of development is characterized by certain topographic forms.
— from The National Geographic Magazine, Vol. I., No. 4, October, 1889 by Various