I.D. Richheimer [380] , attacking the cotton cloth filter, said: It is a known fact that the fats in coffee are very dense and represent twelve to fifteen percent of the coffee weight.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

The usual heraldic Serpent is most frequently found "nowed," that is, interlaced in a knot (Fig. 483).
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

“Why not?” “Because I always keep faith.
— from The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle

Every leaf of the cottonwood is distinctly defined—it is a kodak for faithful, hard, unsentimental detail; the other an impressionist picture, delicious to look upon, full of a subtle and exquisite charm, but all details fused in a swoon of vague and soft loveliness.”
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

On either side is a king, Frederick III.
— from Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism With an Essay on Baal Worship, on the Assyrian Sacred "Grove," and Other Allied Symbols by Thomas Inman

If the sides were equally matched in strength and weapons, and if the witness in question did not know any of the fighters before, she will nevertheless redistribute sun and wind in her description if one of the brawlers happens accidentally to have interested her, or has behaved in a “knightly” fashion, though under other circumstances he might have earned only her dislike.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

Lobytko talked incessantly and kept filling up his glass with beer, and Ryabovitch, whose head was confused from dreaming all day long, drank and said nothing.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

I came back over and over to see, but I always kept from butting in.'
— from Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories by H. G. (Harrison Griswold) Dwight

* * when the princes and barons who conquered it had chosen, as king and lord of the kingdom of Jerusalem, Godfrey of Boulogne, * * * who was a man of understanding, and anxious to place the said kingdom in a good condition, and to have his people and all others who should come and go and dwell in the kingdom, guided, kept, ruled, sustained, held together, and judged according to justice and reason, he chose, upon the advice of the patriarch of the holy city and church of Jerusalem, and that of the princes, barons, and wisest men he could find, prudent men, whose business it should be to inquire and know from the people of various lands there present, what were the customs of their respective countries.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 5, November, 1863 by Various

However, out of consideration for my feelings, they were silent: so was I. They waited in all kindness for me to enjoy my treat; but one act of politeness deserves another; there was nothing for me to do, in my turn, but to forego my share, all the more so as I did not feel inclined to present the ridiculous spectacle of a man eating by himself a thing which all his neighbours loathe and detest.
— from Their Majesties as I Knew Them Personal Reminiscences of the Kings and Queens of Europe by Xavier Paoli

And here we must advert to what happened at a later period; the provincial had the rashness to reestablish the school after the departure of the Founder, who, having been informed of it, and knowing from interior revelation the obduracy of this man, cursed him publicly, and deposed him at the ensuing chapter.
— from The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi by Candide Chalippe

May 18th, he made formal Treaty with Karl Albert: Treaty of Nymphenburg, "Karl Albert to be Kaiser; Bavaria, with Austria Proper added to it, a Kingdom; French armies, French moneys, and other fine items."
— from History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 12 by Thomas Carlyle

See, young one, there is not room in a kraal for two strong bulls."
— from In Search of the Okapi A Story of Adventure in Central Africa by Ernest Glanville

When Mollie had measles, he nursed her night and day, and when Waveney and Noel also sickened, he was so worn out that if a kindly friend had not come to his assistance, he would soon have been on a sick-bed.
— from Mollie's Prince: A Novel by Rosa Nouchette Carey

I got the pattern of this sweater I am knitting from one of my boarders.
— from The Trumpeter Swan by Temple Bailey