A perruque cannot bring back courtly manners, and a style of architecture, when revived, is never quite genuine; adaptations have to be introduced and every adaptation, the bolder it is, runs the greater risk of being extravagant.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

The diameter of the cells of drones is always 3-1/3 lines (or twelfths of an inch); that of those of workers 2-2/5 lines: and these dimensions are so constant in their ordinary cells, that some authors have thought they might be adopted as an universal and invariable scale of measure, which would have the great recommendation of being every where at hand, and at all events would be preferable to our barley-corns .
— from An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. 2 or Elements of the Natural History of the Insects by William Kirby

He hasn't got rid of Bedr el Gemály; but he would have done so, I'm sure, if it hadn't been for an unexpected turn of the wheel, by the hand of Fate in the person of Rachel Guest.
— from It Happened in Egypt by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

Usually, however, by rubbing against trees, rocks, and banks of dirt, and by rolling on the prairie, the loose hair is got rid of by early summer.
— from Musk-Ox, Bison, Sheep and Goat by George Bird Grinnell

The alcohol is got rid of by evaporation, the residue treated with caustic soda, and the bases shaken out by successive treatment with ether, petroleum ether, and chloroform.
— from Poisons, Their Effects and Detection A Manual for the Use of Analytical Chemists and Experts by Alexander Wynter Blyth

Now, it appears that about two-fifths of all the rain which falls escapes through the drains, and the rest is got rid of by evaporation.
— from Elements of Agricultural Chemistry by Thomas Anderson

The French king was extremely alarmed at this attempt, as five thousand pieces of cannon, vast magazines, and the best part of his fleet, were in the harbour of Toulon, and ran the greatest risk of being entirely taken or destroyed.
— from The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. Continued from the Reign of William and Mary to the Death of George II. by T. (Tobias) Smollett

If I am energetic and persevering, I may grow rich or be elected to office.
— from A Handbook of Ethical Theory by George Stuart Fullerton

Presently, patches of cultivation presented themselves; plots of ground raised on beds, each a few feet wide, with intervening trenches to carry off the boggy water, where potatoes had grown, and small fields where grew more ragwort than grass, enclosed by banks cast up and tipped here and there with a brier or a stone.
— from The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign Why It Exists, and How It May Be Extinguished by Henry Charles Carey

We have now dealt with the refraction of light in general, including deviation and dispersion, in order to see how it can assist us in the formation of the telescope; and we have shown how the chromatic effect of a single lens can be got rid of by employing a compound system composed of different materials, and so we have got a general idea of the refracting telescope.
— from Stargazing: Past and Present by Lockyer, Norman, Sir

Although difficult to know well, he had the general reputation of being easy to get along with.
— from Ride Proud, Rebel! by Andre Norton