If a lady traveling alone on a long journey, such as a trip across the continent, happens to find a gentleman on board whom she knows, she must not allow him to sit with her in the dining-car more often than a casual once or twice, nor must she allow him to sit with her or talk to her enough to give a possible impression that they are together.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

The man kept gazing at me and could not believe that I, his former master, an officer, was now before him in such a guise and position; it made him shed tears.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

1852—Robert Bowman Tennent is granted a patent in England on a two-cylinder machine for pulping coffee.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

H2 anchor Chapter 10 When Pencroft had once got a plan in his head, he had no peace till it was executed.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

Not that I would conclude that these philosophers, in this threefold division, had any thought of a trinity in God, although Plato is said to have been the first to discover and promulgate this distribution, and he saw that God alone could be the author of nature, the bestower of intelligence, and the kindler of love by which life becomes good and blessed.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

1834—John Chester Lyman is granted a patent in England on a coffee huller employing circular wooden disks with wire teeth.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Confucius said, 'Contemplating good, and pursuing it, as if they could not reach it; contemplating evil, and shrinking from it, as they would from thrusting the hand into boiling water:— I have seen such men, as I have heard such words.
— from The Analects of Confucius (from the Chinese Classics) by Confucius

For that which in speaking of goods and possessions, is called an Owner, and in latine Dominus, in Greeke Kurios; speaking of Actions, is called Author.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

“I awakened Weena, and we went down into the wood, now green and pleasant instead of black and forbidding.
— from The Time Machine by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Miss Cornelia Boardman brought a large fluid lamp with a glass globe and put it on the communion table.
— from Two Centuries of New Milford Connecticut An Account of the Bi-Centennial Celebration of the Founding of the Town Held June 15, 16, 17, and 18, 1907, With a Number of Historical Articles and Reminiscences by Various

Obj. 5: Further, in all that is said of God, the concrete is predicated of the abstract; for Deity is God and paternity is the Father.
— from Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

At the same time the solitary light, which had begun to burn a pale and ghastly blue, was suddenly extinguished, as though by an invisible hand; but the terrified schoolmaster was not long left in darkness, for a vivid flash of lightning illuminated the little chamber, and almost blinded the would-be necromancer, who tried to gabble a prayer in the orthodox manner, but his tongue refused to perform its office, and clave to the roof of his mouth.
— from Goblin Tales of Lancashire by James Bowker

"I cannot think," replied Bernard de Rohan, willing to answer as generally as possible, "I cannot think that the state of society is so terrible as you represent it.
— from Corse de Leon; or, The Brigand: A Romance. Volume 1 (of 2) by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

For the rich, pills of incredible size are richly gilded and placed in elaborate boxes.
— from Quaint Korea by Louise Jordan Miln

Valley of Aranjuez.—The island garden.—The palace.—Strange medley of pictures.—Oratories of the King and the Queen.—Destruction of a grand apartment painted in fresco by Mengs.—Boundless freedom of conduct in the present reign.—Decoration of the Duchess of Ossuna’s house.—Apathy pervading the whole Iberian peninsula.
— from Italy; with sketches of Spain and Portugal by William Beckford

The gases are placed in transparent glass or quartz tubes at rather low pressures and a high voltage is impressed upon the ends of these tubes.
— from Artificial Light: Its Influence upon Civilization by Matthew Luckiesh

"I cannot get a priest; it is not allowed.
— from By What Authority? by Robert Hugh Benson

From thence to Dr. Williams (at the little blind alehouse in Shoe Lane, at the Gridiron, a place I am ashamed to be seen to go into), and there with some bland counsel of his we discuss our matters, but I find men of so different minds that by my troth I know not what to trust to.
— from Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1661 N.S. by Samuel Pepys

Remembering all this, consider again the revelations of greed and plunder in the Equitable; consider that millions upon millions of dollars have been filched and wasted; analyze the Frick report and the letter of President Alexander to the directors of the society, calling for Vice-President Hyde's removal from office.
— from Frenzied Finance, Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated by Thomas William Lawson