197 This decree of the Marshal the Scribe will enter in the acts of the General Confederation, and the Apparitor will proclaim it.
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

“My gold collar,” answered the Prior, “against ten butts of Chian wine;—they are mine as securely as if they were already in the convent vaults, under the key of old Dennis the cellarer.”
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

“I don’t get cross about other things; but I’m so tired of being twitted about my hair and it just makes me boil right over.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Preparing Brazil coffee for export 305 Grading coffee at Santos 306 The test by the cups, Santos 306 New York importers' warehouse, Santos 307 Pack-mule transport in Venezuela 308 Coffee-carrying cart, Guatemala 308 Pack-oxen fording stream, Colombia 308 Coffee transport, Mexico and South America 309 Donkey coffee-transport at Harar 310 Coffee camels at Harar 310 Selling coffee by tapping hands, Aden 310 Packing and transporting coffee, Aden 311 Coffee camel train at Hodeida 312 Methods of loading coffee, Santos 313 Coffee freighter, Cauca River, Colombia 314 Coffee steamers on the Magdalena 314 Loading heavy cargo on Santa Cecilia 315 Unloading Java coffee from sailing vessel 317 Receiving piers for coffee, New York 318 Unloading coffee, covered pier, New York 319 Receiving and storing coffee, New York 320 Tester at work, Bush Terminal, New York 321 Loading lighters, Bush Docks, Brooklyn 321 New Terminal system on Staten Island 322 Motor tractor, Bush piers 322 Unloading with modern conveyor 323 Coffee handling, New Orleans piers 324 Coffee in steel-covered sheds, New Orleans 325 Unloading and storing coffee, San Francisco 326 Modern device for handling green coffee 327 Handling green coffee at European ports 328 New York Coffee and Sugar Exchange 329 Coffee section, Coffee and Sugar Exchange 330 Blackboards, Coffee Exchange 331 "Coffee afloat" blackboard 332 Well known green-coffee marks 339 Bourbon-Santos beans, roasted 343 Flat and Bourbon-Santos beans, roasted 343 Rio beans, roasted 343 Mexican beans, roasted 347 Guatemala beans, roasted 347 Bogota (Colombia) beans, roasted 348 Maracaibo beans, roasted 349 Mocha beans, roasted 351 Washed Java beans, roasted 353 Sample-roasting and cup-testing outfit 357 Modern gas coffee-roasting plant 380 Sixteen-cylinder coal roasting plant 382 Green-coffee separating and milling machines 384 English gas coffee-roasting plant 385 German gas coffee-roasting plant 386 French gas coffee-roasting plant 387 Jumbo coffee roaster, Arbuckle plant 388 Roasting plant of Reid, Murdoch & Co.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

It grew colder and colder still, and fine, powdery snow began to fall, so that soon we and all around us were covered with a white blanket.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

The Romans, in the meantime, though they had not been altogether at peace, yet they had not, during this period, been engaged in any war of very great consequence; and their military discipline, it is generally said, was a good deal relaxed.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

“Wait here until I get the gas capsules and the equipment.”
— from The Lani People by Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) Bone

and so we soon threaded the externals of Royal a black dwarf—or rather a nutmeg shade—banged a Anstey’s “New Bath Guide.” Crescents and Circuses, Pulteney and Milsom Streets, and Queen Squares, and odd holes, lanes,’ and corners, until reaching Avon Street, where ‘the power of sinking could no further go,’ nor the Pig and Whistle meet with a more picturesque if degraded aspect In this latter neighbourhood it was requisite for professional purposes and home orders that George Cruikshank should have a nightly sojourn, if not revel; and so a suitable tavern was chosen that had a skittle-alley attached, that except in name or position might form a capital match for that Lion in the Wood in Wilderness Lane, that he mentions in ‘My Portrait,’ at the commencement of bis Omnibus .
— from The Life of George Cruikshank in Two Epochs, Vol. 2. (of 2) by Blanchard Jerrold

The scene within comprised an altar, plain, without idols or other decoration; situated in an open space, bare-headed and shaven priests, some wearing robes of blue, others of grey cloth, all with a yellow-coloured surplice thrown over the left shoulder and brought loosely under the right arm.
— from Recollections of Thirty-nine Years in the Army Gwalior and the Battle of Maharajpore, 1843; the Gold Coast of Africa, 1847-48; the Indian Mutiny, 1857-58; the expedition to China, 1860-61; the Siege of Paris, 1870-71; etc. by Gordon, Charles Alexander, Sir

That must be one of the most entertaining parts about getting married, I think—to find out what you each get cranky about, and how you do it.”
— from Paddy-The-Next-Best-Thing by Gertrude Page

It is sufficient if he find one farmer who will receive a cart and give corn, and any other farmer who will give a plough and receive corn.
— from Political economy by William Stanley Jevons

The squaws decked out in gay colors, and the men gaudily dressed in war bonnets, made the scene most attractive, but as everything looked propitious for the dangerous enterprise in hand I spent little time watching them.
— from Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army — Complete by Philip Henry Sheridan

The sculpture is executed with the greatest care, and displays some very tasteful ornaments, which, however, are now partly effaced through the action of time on the soft stone.
— from An Account of the Danes and Norwegians in England, Scotland, and Ireland by Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae

Again, the end of the tenth cycle after the starting point is recorded in several places, but not as Cycle 3 of the following great cycle, as if the cycles were numbered from 0 to 19, inclusive, but as Cycle 10, as would be the case if the cycles were numbered from 1 to 13.
— from An Introduction to the Study of the Maya Hieroglyphs by Sylvanus Griswold Morley

Through the short summer night everyone was at work in these preparations; and by the dawn of day visitors began to flow into the city, great personages and small, to attend the great ceremonial and to pay their homage.
— from Jeanne D'Arc: Her Life And Death by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

By reference to the Beaufort Scale, which is a graduated classification adopted by Admiral Beaufort about the year 1805.
— from The Sewerage of Sea Coast Towns by Henry Charles Adams

They are never allowed to eat at the same time, except on the wedding-day, and must walk behind their husbands on a journey, generally carrying a child on their hips; yet I have seen the man carrying the child, and at least taking turn about, and in other respects they always appeared to be on good terms with each other.
— from Travels in Peru and India While Superintending the Collection of Chinchona Plants and Seeds in South America, and Their Introduction into India. by Markham, Clements R. (Clements Robert), Sir