Midships in the mediaeval galley a castle was erected, of the width of the ship, and some 20 feet in length; its platform being elevated sufficiently to allow of free passage under it and over the benches.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

When it was full I left it propped in the fork of a tree, and a few days later, carrying the hateful old man that way, I snatched at my gourd as I passed it and had the satisfaction of a draught of excellent wine so good and refreshing that I even forgot my detestable burden, and began to sing and caper.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

pr. seem good to, I take a fancy, I like, I please; seem, strike one (as).
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

This [Shewing] I believed verily for the time that I saw Him, and so was then my will and my meaning ever for to do without end; but as a fool I let it pass from my mind.
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

But as soon as the image of the doubleness as it is felt in the more discriminative places gets lodged in our memory, it helps us to find its like in places where otherwise we might have missed it, much as the recent hearing of [Pg 515] an 'overtone' helps us to detect the latter in a compound sound ( supra , pp.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

But our scattered videttes almost wholly escaped it; whilst over the main body of the picquet, sheltered as it was by the ditch, and considerably removed from its line, it passed entirely harmless.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 264, July 14, 1827 by Various

It converted readers into friends and friends into lovers; it placed the author, as the phrase is—placed him all too definitely; but it shrank to obscurity in the account of sales eventually rendered.
— from Embarrassments by Henry James

Purifying materials Bleaching powder Heratol, frankoline, acagine, and puratylene Efficiency of purifying material Minor reagent Method of a gas purifier Methods of determining exhaustion of purifying material Regulations for purification Drying Position of purifier Filtration General arrangement of plans Generator residues Disposal of residue CHAPTER VI THE CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF ACETYLENE Physical properties Leakage Heat of combustion Explosive limits Range of explosibility Solubility in liquids Toxicity Endothermic nature Polymerisation Heats of formation and combustion Colour of flame Radiant efficiency Chemical properties Reactions with copper CHAPTER VII MAINS AND SERVICE-PIPES--SUBSIDIARY APPARATUS Meters Governors Gasholder pressure Pressure-gauges Dimensions of mains and pipes Velocity of flow in pipes Service-pipes and mains Leakage Pipes and fittings Laying mains Expelling air from pipes Tables of pipes and mains CHAPTER VIII COMBUSTION OF ACETYLENE IN LUMINOUS BURNERS--THEIR DISPOSITION Nature of luminous flames Illuminating power Early burners Injector and twin-flame burners Illuminating power of self-luminous burners Glassware for burners CHAPTER IX INCANDESCENT BURNERS--HEATING APPARATUS--MOTORS--AUTOGENOUS SOLDERING Merits of incandescent lighting Conditions for incandescent lighting Illuminating power of incandescent burners Durability of mantles
— from Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use A Practical Handbook on the Production, Purification, and Subsequent Treatment of Acetylene for the Development of Light, Heat, and Power by W. J. Atkinson (William John Atkinson) Butterfield

The importance of Style is generally unsuspected by philosophers and men of science, who are quite aware of its advantage in all departments of BELLES LETTRES; and if you allude in their presence to the deplorably defective presentation of the ideas in some work distinguished for its learning, its profundity or its novelty, it is probable that you will be despised as a frivolous setter up of manner over matter, a light-minded DILLETANTE, unfitted for the simple austerities of science.
— from The Principles of Success in Literature by George Henry Lewes

"I didn't think ministers ever fell in love," I protested.
— from Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

The drying-room is 70 ft. by 30 ft. A flue-pipe 70 ft. in length is placed horizontally immediately along the floor in this department and about 1,200 ft. of corded piping are utilized for the heating chamber.
— from All about Battersea by Henry S. Simmonds

Its foundation is laid in pure domestic life, in commercial integrity, in a high standard of moral worth and of public spirit; in simple habits, in courage, uprightness, and self-sacrifice, in a certain soundness and moderation of judgment, which springs quite as much from character as from intellect.
— from Historical and Political Essays by William Edward Hartpole Lecky

“Madame,” said he, “I have the pleasure to inform you that Mademoiselle Jeanne Bossière, late of Frélus, is living in Paris at 743 bis Boulevard Port Royal, and spends all her days at the succursale of the French Red Cross in the Rue Vaugirard.”
— from The Rough Road by William John Locke