Phipps, Sir William, 111 Phipps & Co., J.L., 476 , 482 , 484 , 486 Phoenix, John, 482 Phoenix & Co., J.W., 482 Phoenix Electrical Heating Co., 647 Phyfe, James W., 480 Phyfe & Co., Jas. W., 480 Phonetic difficulties, 1 Physique Sacrée, on Histoire Naturelle de la Bible , Scheuzer, q. , 13 , 16 Piccander, q. , 595 Picking c., 250 Colombia, 260 Pickslay, Joseph D., 477 , 535 Pictures Afternoon in the court gardens, Munich, Walle's, 591 Afternoon at the coffee table, Meith's, 591 Button's coffee house, Shepherd's, ill. , 593 Café en Asia Mineure, De Ternamine's, 591 Café sur un route de Syrie, Marilhat's, 591 Café Turc, Descamp's, 591 Coffee comes to the aid of the Muse, Ruffio's, ill. , 591 Coffee house at Cairo, Gérôme's, ill. , 591 , 656 Decorative panel for Paris House, Mazerolles', 591 Dutch coffee house of 1650, Van Ostade's, ill. , 587 First coffee house in Vienna, Schams', ill. , 590 Four times of the day, Hogarth's, ill. , 587 French coffee house, Rowlandson's, 593 Goldoni in a Venetian café, Longhi's, ill. , 588 Kaffeebesuch Phillipi's, ill. , 591 Lion's head at Button's, Shepherd's, ill. , 591 Mad dog in a coffee house, Rowlandson's, ill. , 593 Manager Classen and his family, Milde's, 591 Mme.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Flowers solitary or in axillary cymes, hermaphrodite, regular.
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera

Here is a chicken had round from the Boar, here is a tongue had round from the Boar, here's one or two little things had round from the Boar, that I hope you may not despise.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Finally, to complete my assignment, he comes to ask for your daughter in marriage; and in order to have a father-in-law who should be worthy of him, he wants to make you a Mamamouchi , which is a certain high rank in his country.
— from The Middle-Class Gentleman by Molière

The high duties which have been imposed upon the importation of many different sorts of foreign goods in order to discourage their consumption in Great Britain, have, in many cases, served only to encourage smuggling, and, in all cases, have reduced the revenues of the customs below what more moderate duties would have afforded.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

As soon as I heard artillery, I advanced with two regiments of infantry, and took position, and remained until the scattered companies of infantry and cavalry had returned.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

In any case the transaction of business will be facilitated and time will be saved by the prince's coming, as in any case his ratification has to be obtained to the terms agreed on."
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

After this preamble, I am going bravely to enter into the examination of facts which, I am convinced, have rarely been observed at Paris.
— from On Love by Stendhal

In a codicil he remembers a certain Cautillon, who had undergone trial for an alleged attempt to assassinate Wellington.
— from The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. Vol. 4 (of 4) by William Milligan Sloane

They were known far and near; and no effort short of miraculous would have been sufficient to shake the confidence which ignorance and credulity had reposed in them.
— from Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott

This I know assuredly, that before God humbled me, I was like a stone lying sunk in deep mire; but He who is able came, He raised me in his mercy, and set me on a very high place.
— from The Annual Monitor for 1851 or, Obituary of the members of the Society of Friends in Great Britain and Ireland, for the year 1850 by Anonymous

He looked to some of the party, and one of them said that we were practising deceit; for it would be found that we had both idols and crosses hung round our necks.
— from Travels Into Bokhara (Volume 1 of 3) Being the Account of A Journey from India to Cabool, Tartary, and Persia; Also, Narrative of a Voyage on the Indus, From the Sea to Lahore, With Presents From the King of Great Britain; Performed Under the Orders of the Supreme Government of India, in the Years 1831, 1832, and 1833 by Burnes, Alexander, Sir

Vaguely Ericson’s numb fancy pictured himself being jostled like a human log of wood to hospital, or perhaps to prison, and grasping his musket, and transforming it into a crutch, he rose and hobbled away from the groans and puddles of blood into the edge of the wood.
— from Northern Georgia Sketches by Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben

Then, as Ramage readjusted himself in a corner, he remarked: “These young people shoot up, Stanley.
— from Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

The boy is made to sit six hours a day in a close, hot room, breathing impure air, putting the brain and the nervous system upon a constant strain, while the muscular system is repressed to an unnatural quiet.
— from The Chimney-Corner by Harriet Beecher Stowe

In any case, he rather persuades than commands; not power, but weight of character procures the assent of his hearers.
— from Theodoric the Goth: Barbarian Champion of Civilisation by Thomas Hodgkin

Cheers rent the air from every group; and if a conqueror had returned from the most sacred patriotic service he could not have received a heartier ovation than that bestowed upon the graceless fugitive.
— from Sevenoaks: A Story of Today by J. G. (Josiah Gilbert) Holland