Needless to say, he called Jeff’s teacher “Java,” and sometimes “Mocha,” or plain “Coffee”; when specially mischievous, “Chicory,” and even “Postum.”
— from Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

July, Aug., Sept. Makers of Playing Cards 160 97 45 1 00 20 50 June, July, Aug. Manufacturers of Pasteboard and Cards, Glazed Paper 210 121 30 1 30 20 45 Dec., Jan., Feb. Manufacturers of Pasteboard Boxes 569 1,357 40 1 20 6 70 Jan., Feb., March, July.
— from The Employments of Women: A Cyclopædia of Woman's Work by Virginia Penny

There will no man quit any of his goods upon a sentence coming from an incompetent judge: and shall ministers or people be hectored or fooled from such a privilege by them that have no such power.
— from A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Alexander Shields

JACOBS, A. S. Method of popular piano playing.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1957 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

It is not just a simple matter of putting on some juice and letting it boil.
— from Dwellers in Arcady: The Story of an Abandoned Farm by Albert Bigelow Paine

The expenses of producing the work left Johnson a small margin of profit.
— from Literary Byways by William Andrews

Duncan had no choice but to accept an arrangement which, after all, had much of joy and still more of promise in it.
— from A Captain in the Ranks: A Romance of Affairs by George Cary Eggleston

The stores of Johannesburg, and still more of Pretoria, will feed the army for something over a fortnight, and in the meanwhile we can re-open our communications, and perhaps do much more.
— from Ian Hamilton's March by Winston Churchill

It is possible to feel a very strong attachment for a certain range whose outline has grown familiar to our eyes, or a clear peak that has looked down, day after day, upon our joys and sorrows, moderating our passions with its calm aspect.
— from Little Rivers: A Book of Essays in Profitable Idleness by Henry Van Dyke