The King then asked him if there were any other literary journals published in this kingdom, except the Monthly and Critical Reviews; and on being answered there were no other, his Majesty asked which of them was the best: Johnson answered, that the Monthly Review was done with most care, the Critical upon the best principles; adding that the authours of the Monthly Review were enemies to the Church.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

Therefore, although each art has its incommunicable element, its untranslatable order of impressions, its unique mode of reaching the "imaginative reason," yet the arts may be represented as continually struggling after the law or principle of music, to a condition which music alone completely realises; and one of the chief functions of aesthetic criticism, dealing with the products of art, new or old, is to estimate the degree in which each of those products approaches, in this sense, to musical law.
— from The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry by Walter Pater

The priest takes with him the materials necessary for performing worship, and, after worshipping Mahālingaswāmi, the party return to the Hiriya Udaya temple, where milk and cooked rice are offered to the various gods within the temple precincts.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

I also ordered the troops in West Tennessee to points on the river and on the Memphis and Charleston road, and ordered the cars, locomotives and rails from all the railroads except the Memphis and Charleston to Nashville.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

A pinion on the same spindle as the coils works with a wheel on the axis carrying the pointer on the dial, so that the pointer makes a complete revolution as often as the handle, A , makes fifteen turns.
— from Discoveries and Inventions of the Nineteenth Century by Robert Routledge

But if you need any guaranty other than the thought of where my self-interest lies in the matter I may tell you that in addition to the stocks which you are to carry for me I intend to invest in Pearl Street common to the full extent of my available cash resources, also on a ten-point margin.
— from Local Color by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

Stuart's dispensary was merely a curtained recess at one end of the waiting-room and shortly after entering the house he had occasion to visit it.
— from The Golden Scorpion by Sax Rohmer

It is a striking thing to observe the revolving copper plate become thus a new electrical machine ; and curious results arise on comparing it with the common machine.
— from Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 by Michael Faraday

We had to cross Wolf River and the Memphis and Charleston Railroad, and our force did not exceed 5,000 or 6,000 men, many of them neither armed nor mounted.
— from Recollections of Thomas D. Duncan, a Confederate Soldier by Thomas D. Duncan

The young man made a casual reply, and others entering at the moment the little incident was seemingly forgotten.
— from Lily Pearl and The Mistress of Rosedale by Ida Glenwood

The King then asked him if there were any other literary journal published in this kingdom, except the Monthly and Critical Reviews; and on being answered there was no other, his Majesty asked which of them was the best: Johnson answered that the Monthly Review was done with most care, the Critical upon the best principles; adding that the authours of the Monthly Review were enemies to the Church.
— from Lives of the English Poets From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a Continuation of Johnson's Lives by Henry Francis Cary