It was when the japan wares, so called from the attempt of the makers to copy the lacquers of Japan then much imported, were being successfully made amidst surroundings then exceedingly romantic in the little town singularly situated on a steep cliff overhanging the Avon Llwyd, that dealers found trays, breadbaskets, snuffer trays, knife trays, caddies, and urns much in request.
— from Chats on Household Curios by Fred. W. (Frederick William) Burgess
There was so much at stake that even Roger had to forget his natural feelings and devote himself to vigorous work.
— from The Pioneer Boys of the Yellowstone; or, Lost in the Land of Wonders by St. George Rathborne
After all, are there any things your money can buy you better than those which are given for nothing to every man at sea?" THE END Richard Clay & Sons, Limited, London and Bungay. -*- encoding: utf-8 -*- *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK IN THE MISTY SEAS
— from In the Misty Seas: A Story of the Sealers of Behring Strait by Harold Bindloss
Continued tight monetary and fiscal policies have helped slow inflation - although inflationary pressures are mounting - and stabilize the exchange rate, but have resulted in the slowdown of economic growth (moving from 1.5% in 1992 to 0.5% in 1995).
— from The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
" IN spite of the efforts of Maltravers to shun all occasions of meeting Evelyn, they were necessarily sometimes thrown together in the round of provincial hospitalities; and certainly, if either Mr. Merton or Caroline (the shrewder observer of the two) had ever formed any suspicion that Evelyn had made a conquest of Maltravers, his manner at such times effectually removed it.
— from Alice, or the Mysteries — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
The tinworker, who had followed her, explained to her how the thing worked, pointing out with his finger the various parts of the machine, and showed the enormous retort whence fell the clear stream of alcohol.
— from L'Assommoir by Émile Zola
One of the best and most fortunate cockswains in the harbour steered her; and as he glanced on the powerful limbs and the muscular chests of his men, and saw the exquisite regularity with which the blades were dipped into the wave, his heart swelled with anticipated triumph.
— from The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 31, January 30, 1841 by Various
Beatrice was frankly impersonal in her attitude; he represented a new species of the genus man, and she, too, evidently regarded him in the light of a strange animal, viewed unexpectedly at close range.
— from Her Prairie Knight by B. M. Bower
"I collected from his mother and sister that Evan Roberts was forty-eight years of age; that he had been liable to periodical mania for twenty-seven years, and which the mother attributed to some injury to his head, received in a rural affray; that at first the maniacal paroxysms were unfrequent, but that they had become more violent and frequent as he advanced in life.
— from Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles by Daniel Hack Tuke
Then came others, and, finally, there came Brangaene, whom Lady Grote knew, but did not care about knowing at this particular moment, and so, to escape recognition, she leant back in the darkness of her motor.
— from Robin Linnet by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
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