Uniting plucked strings and percussion with instruments of sustained resonance results in the following: wind instruments, wood and brass, strengthen and clarify pizzicato strings, harp, kettle-drums and percussion generally, the latter lending a touch of relief to the tone of the wood-wind.
— from Principles of Orchestration, with Musical Examples Drawn from His Own Works by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov

There are fewer possible ways of scoring more complex musical ideas, harmonico-melodic phrases, polyphonic designs etc.; sometimes there are but two methods to be followed, for each of the primary elements in music, melody, harmony, and counterpoint possesses its own special requirements, regulating the choice of instruments and tone colour.
— from Principles of Orchestration, with Musical Examples Drawn from His Own Works by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov

I slipt on a dressing-gown, went into our sitting room, rang for a waiter, and ordered breakfast to be got ready immediately, so that by the time we were dressed it was on the table all smoking hot, and we sat down and did full justice to it.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

168 Reference to other parts of the book by Apicius, ℞ 170 , 166 Relishes, ℞ 174-5 RENES, ℞ 286 Reynière, Grimod de la —— writer, p. 3 , see MAPPA RHOMBUS, fish, turbot RHUS, a shrub called SUMACH, seed of which is used instead of salt RISUM, rice, also ORYZA.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

In the preparation of this work the writer has deemed it better to let history, as far as possible, tell its own story, regarding reliability as preferable to unity of style.
— from The History of Dartmouth College by Baxter Perry Smith

According to Turman, a bouncer at the Vegas for about a year, Ruby’s victim was frequently drunk, female, or otherwise incapable of successfully resisting Ruby’s attack.
— from Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by United States. Warren Commission

A degree of parsimony, which an Englishman, who does not affect the reputation of a Codrus, could not acquire without many self-combats, appears in a Frenchman a matter of preference and convenience, and till one has lived long and familiarly in the country, one is apt to mistake principles for customs, and character for manners, and to attribute many things to local which have their real source in moral causes.—The traveller who sees nothing but gay furniture, and gay clothes, and partakes on invitation of splendid repasts, returns to England the enamoured panegyrist of French hospitality.—On a longer residence and more domestic intercourse, all this is discoverable to be merely the sacrifice of parsimony to vanity—the solid comforts of life are unknown, and hospitality seldom extends beyond an occasional and ostentatious reception.
— from A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Complete Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners by Charlotte Biggs

The action also appears analogous to the custom of breaking bread and swearing alliance on it, a practice still observed by the inhabitants of some remote regions of the Caucasus.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete by Various

Nor is bar iron or steel rail rolled anywhere here (except possibly a little experimental work in Mexico and elsewhere).
— from Spanish America, Its Romance, Reality and Future, Vol. 2 (of 2) by C. Reginald (Charles Reginald) Enock

Instead of such recurrent rhyme he employs changing rhyme and free strophes.
— from The Influence of India and Persia on the Poetry of Germany by Arthur F. J. Remy

83 Next morning off went the Lad ; and when he got home to his mother, he said: “After all, the North Wind is a jolly fellow; for now he has given me a ram which can coin golden ducats if I only say: ‘Ram, ram!
— from East of the Sun and West of the Moon: Old Tales from the North by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen