[Pg 501] [8] This is, no doubt, a reference to Pliny's statement ( XXXIII , 35) regarding litharge at Puteoli.
— from De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georg Agricola

" "O staye, O staye, thou goodlye youthe, She standeth by thy side; She is here alive, she is not dead, And readye to be thy bride.
— from The Book of Old English Ballads by George Wharton Edwards

Once the Marines had consolidated the objective, they collected their casualties which included nine dead and returned to the perimeter.
— from The Battle for Khe Sanh by Moyers S. Shore

Wring out your first cloth in the ammonia-water until it is nearly dry, and rub the glass over and over from one side to the other, and around and around.
— from A Little Housekeeping Book for a Little Girl; Or, Margaret's Saturday Mornings by Caroline French Benton

Other office employees are similar in number, duties, and responsibilities to those in the usual commercial office.
— from Cyclopedia of Commerce, Accountancy, Business Administration, v. 02 (of 10) by American School of Correspondence

Internally, the upper surface of the valve is roughened: the articular ridge is very prominent, and slightly reflexed: there is no distinct adductor ridge; there is a slight but variable depression for the lateral depressor.
— from A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 2 of 2) The Balanidæ, (or Sessile Cirripedes); the Verrucidæ, etc., etc. by Charles Darwin

On June second, for five consecutive years, the ends of the earth had yielded up Phelan Harrihan; by a miracle of grace he had arrived in Nashville, decently appareled, ready to respond to his toast, to bask for his brief hour in the full glare of the calcium, then to depart again into oblivion.
— from Miss Mink's Soldier and Other Stories by Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice