This country, usually credited with being the original home of the coffee plant, still has, in its southern part, vast forests of wild coffee whose extent is unknown, but whose total production is believed to be immense.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

“There’s hatred in it, too,” he went on, after a minute’s pause.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

For no one thinks too meanly of himself because of self—hatred; I say that no one thinks too meanly of himself, in so far as he conceives that he is incapable of doing this or that.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

This king causes the earthquakes when he struggles or stirs himself, and he is so strong that in shaking hands with him it is necessary to extend to him a bone, which he crushes in his grasp.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

Yet our initial impression remains ever the keynote of all later knowledge of him; it is the direct perception of his individuality which his appearance, and especially his face, discloses to our glance.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

He insinuated it, as it were.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The favorite knows that the regard of a tyrant is as unconstant and capricious as that of a woman; and concluding his time to be short, he makes haste to fill up the measure of his iniquity, in rapine, in luxury, and in revenge.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

On the other hand, it is almost impossible to discover any sort of material interest which might at present tempt a portion of the Union to separate from the other States.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Mineral oil contains a large proportion of carbon and hydrogen; it is therefore termed hydro-carbon.
— from How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Archibald Williams

The music was dying away along the street, and its dismal strains were mingled with the knell of midnight from the steeple of the Old South and with the roar of artillery which announced that the beleaguered army of Washington had intrenched itself upon a nearer height than before.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

(5) It did not escape them, that the two pistol explosions in the little office might have been caused by Shelley’s two pistols, there being no evidence (apart from his bare assertion) that one of his pistols had only flashed in the pan during affair No. 1. (6) It did not escape them, that, as he was passing through the window into the shrubbery at the very moment of Shelley’s appearance in the little office, the assassin acted very strangely in suddenly changing his mind and attacking Shelley, when he had it in his power to accomplish his purpose of passing into the outer darkness.
— from The Real Shelley. New Views of the Poet's Life. Vol. 2 (of 2) by John Cordy Jeaffreson

The Legislature at the session previous had in its apportionment bill increased the delegation from Sangamon county to seven Representatives and two Senators.
— from Abraham Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, Volume 1 (of 2) by William Henry Herndon

If I had it, I could storm any position.
— from The Bacillus of Beauty: A Romance of To-day by Harriet Stark

" "And a pretty figure I should cut then," replied Eumaeus, "both now and hereafter, if I were to kill you after receiving you into my hut and showing you hospitality.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

“It would be hard indeed if you had not a home while we are so well able to afford you one,” continued the Vicar, who had denied himself a much-needed carpet for his study in order to add a few luxuries to her bedroom.
— from The Sheep-Stealers by Violet Jacob

But I hardly imagine I shall need it again.
— from Mr. Wicker's Window by Carley Dawson

In the hottest of every day she stripped him and laid him in it, that he might ripen like a peach; and the boy rejoiced in it, and would resist being dressed again.
— from Harper's Young People, December 2, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

Only worry her if I asked her for it—won’t hurt him to suffer a week.
— from The Bicyclers and Three Other Farces by John Kendrick Bangs