In considering a few puzzles concerning clocks and watches, and the times recorded by their hands under given conditions, it is well that a particular convention should always be kept in mind.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

Then by the four corners (so called of Fenchurch street in the east, Bridge street on the south, Grasse street on the north, and Lombard street on the west), in Lombard street is one fair parish church called Allhallows Grasse church, in Lombard street; I do so read it in evidences of record, for that the grass market went down that way, when that street was far broader than now it is, being straitened by incroachments.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

This, being divided into two parts, loaded two persons; and the flesh parts were as much as four persons could carry.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

But thou must eat little or no goat's flesh, nor red deer—nor even foal's flesh by any means; and carefully abstain—that is, as much as thou canst, from peacocks, cranes, coots, didappers, and water-hens— As for thy drink—I need not tell thee, it must be the infusion of Vervain and the herb Hanea, of which Aelian relates such effects—but if thy stomach palls with it—discontinue it from time to time, taking cucumbers, melons, purslane, water-lillies, woodbine, and lettice, in the stead of them.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

The first presents corporeally concepts of things, as they might have existed in nature (though as beautiful art it has regard to aesthetical purposiveness).
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

2 a = area of most extended cultural influences and of commerce; b = area of formal political control; c = area of purely personal relationships, communism.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

The man died not long after, in the presence of my informant, who described the incident with a dramatic force and fervour peculiarly Celtic, concluding with the remark: ‘Well, well, there’s only one way to come into the world, but there’s a many ways to go out of it.’
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

The crest an anchor winged, I think it is, and the motto too tedious: “Regio floret, patrocinio commercium, commercioque Regnum.”
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Lucius Sextius was the first Plebeian Consul, Caius Licinius the third.
— from Lays of Ancient Rome by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

Well then, Pamela, said he, as I am sure you have found means to continue your journal, I desire, till the former part can come, that you will shew me the succeeding.—O sir, sir, said I, have you caught me
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

The early days of coffee culture in Abyssinia and Arabia—Coffee cultivation in general—Soil, climate, rainfall, altitude, propagation, preparing the plantation, shade and wind breaks, fertilizing, pruning, catch crops, pests, and diseases—How coffee is grown around the world—Cultivation in all the principal producing countries F or the beginnings of coffee culture we must go back to the Arabian colony of Harar in Abyssinia, for here it was, about the fifteenth century, that the Arabs, having found the plant growing wild in the Abyssinian highlands, first gave it intensive cultivation.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Custer and his five pet companies completely "wiped out," said the staff-officer, who sent the news flashing around to the military posts in the department.
— from Marion's Faith. by Charles King

The other forty per cent. came to an untimely end in the meshes of the net.
— from The Babe, B.A. Being the Uneventful History of a Young Gentleman at Cambridge University by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

Key: A Protein ( N × 6.25) Per Cent B Fat Per Cent C Carbohydrate Per Cent D Fuel Value per Pound Calories E 100 Calorie Portion Grams Food A B C D E Almonds E.P. 21.0 54.9 17.3 2940 15 A.P. 11.5 30.2 9.5 1615 28 Apples E.P. .4
— from Dietetics for Nurses by Fairfax T. (Fairfax Throckmorton) Proudfit

There's a fifty per cent chance you might conceive."
— from Big Ancestor by F. L. (Floyd L.) Wallace

See under New York Extemporaneous writing, 339 - 341 F "Fable for Critics," 101 , 106 , 195 Familiarity, President Cleveland contrasted with W. C. Bryant, 214 Farragut, Admiral, quoted, 77 Fawcett, Edgar, 153 Fellows, Col. John R., 121 , 122 Fiction, place in 1840-50, 25 , 26 ; writing of, 341 , 342 "First of the Hoosiers," quoted, 145 First Regiment of Virginia Cavalry, 77 , 78 , 81 "Flat Creek," 37 Florida War, 243 [page break]
— from Recollections of a Varied Life by George Cary Eggleston

A second and no less admirable compendium of information for travellers in the Jura, is the, so-called, "Lectures Jurassiennes," a little work compiled for elementary schools, but in reality "Half-hours with the best Franc-Comtois authors," who treat of the general features, products, climate, &c., of the Jura, as well as of the people; their legendary lore, habits of life, and general characteristics.
— from Holidays in Eastern France by Matilda Betham-Edwards

They try to think that fuel production can carry an unlimited wages bill and the owners try to think that it can pay unlimited profits, and when I say; ‘This business is something more than a scramble for profits and wages; it’s a service and a common interest,’ they stare at me—” Sir Richmond was at a loss for an image.
— from The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Blue Veils Preserve Why Violet is Unfavourable to Composition (Literary) Art of Compresses, Surgical, Nature of Compression of the Brain, Treatment of Concussion, Treatment of Conduct, Rules of Confections, Various ( 1 )-( 2 ) Connexions, Game of, Described ( 1 )-( 2 ) Consistency, Advisability of Constipation, homœopathic Treatment of Remedy for Consumption, Remedy for Contusions, to Heal Conundrums, Selection of Conversation and Writing, Arts of, Difference between Art of ( 1 ) ( 2 ) of Females Mode of Making Interesting Convulsions, Cure for homœopathic Treatment of Remedy for Cookery, Borax in for Children Economy in Meat for Soldiers, &c. Cooking, Instruments Loss in Theory of Various Processes of Copper, to Clean Poisoning by, Treatment for Sulphate of Cordials, Properties of Cork Models, to Construct ( 1 )-( 2 ) ( 3 ) ( 4 ) Corks, Soft Cement for Cornish Dialect Schoolboy Corns, Cure for ( 1 )-( 2 ) Coronation Braid Corpulence, Banting's Hints on Correct Speaking, Rules and Hints for Correction of Errors in Speaking Corroborants, Properties of Cossack's Plum Pudding Cotillon Waltz Cotton, Balls or Reels, Place for Carded, Surgical Uses of Cough, Bad, Pills for Common, Remedy for ( 1 ) ( 2 ) homœopathic Treatment of Mixture for ( 1 ) ( 2 ) Mixture for Children Pills Remedies for ( 1 ) ( 2 )-( 3 ) Counsels for the Young Country Dances Covering for Preserves Cowhage Confection Properties and Uses of Crab, Mock Crabs, to Choose Cradle, for the Protection of Limbs, to Form Cramp in Bathing, Treatment of in the Legs when Swimming Crape, Black, to remove Stains from China, to Wash Trimmings, to Preserve Crayfish, to Choose Cream, Pancakes Substitute for of Tartar, Confection / Properties and Uses of Credit, Deceitful Appearance of ( 1 )-( 2 ) Creditor and Debtor, Laws of Creosote Lotion Cress Vinegar Crewel Work Cribbage, Game of ( 1 )
— from Enquire Within Upon Everything The Great Victorian Domestic Standby by Robert Kemp Philp