[63] The amount of condensation in preserved milk may be easily ascertained by noting the amount of water which it is necessary to add in order to make its specific gravity equal to that of ordinary milk.
— from A Handbook of Invalid Cooking For the Use of Nurses in Training, Nurses in Private Practice, and Others Who Care for the Sick by Mary A. Boland

You see," with a slight smile, "I hold myself in such good esteem that it never occurred to me others might find my company disagreeable."
— from Airy Fairy Lilian by Duchess

"The mere idea," says George Eliot, "that a woman had a kindness towards him, spun little threads of tenderness from out his heart towards hers" and "there are natures," she tells us, "in which, if they love us, we are conscious of having a sort of baptism and consecration; they bind us over to rectitude and purity by their pure belief about us, and our sins become that worst kind of sacrilege which tears down the invisible altars of trust.
— from The Doctor's Daughter by Vera

"Actually my initiation," said Gregory, examining the portrait of Madame Okraska on the cover of the programme.
— from Tante by Anne Douglas Sedgwick

They want me I should give 'em two hundred and fifty dollars.
— from Abe and Mawruss: Being Further Adventures of Potash and Perlmutter by Montague Glass

She held me in so great esteem that she could not believe that I would suffer the same abuse, be maltreated and refused accommodation as other "Mormon" Elders.
— from Biography and Family Record of Lorenzo Snow One of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Eliza R. (Eliza Roxey) Snow

Such an event must inevitably send ghastly echoes through a woman’s life, and here is one of the most terrible of the reverberations that troubled Julie’s love from time to time.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac