Baskets and horns of plenty made of nougat or pulled sugar, holding glacé fruits, and forms made of spun sugar are in good taste, but imitations of art objects and high pyramids, such as are used on supper tables, should be excluded.
— from The Century Cook Book by Mary Ronald

Around her ivory throat, and over her polished shoulders, hung my own necklace of pearls, strung as they had been on board the Crisis, giving her bust an air of affluent decoration, while it told a long story of distant adventure and of well-requited affection.
— from Miles Wallingford Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore" by James Fenimore Cooper

‘Beaumarchais.’ THE TEMPLE “Mademoiselle Ninon,” continues Loménie, “asked for nothing better than to unburden her poor heart; she addressed to Beaumarchais an avalanche of letters of which several contain no less than twelve pages; she gave her name, the name of her seducer, and recounts her little romance with a curious mixture of naïveté, of precocity, sensitiveness, intelligence and garrulity.
— from Beaumarchais and the War of American Independence, Vol. 2 by Elizabeth Sarah Kite

One such case that fell under my observation not only produced such misery as to entail a loss of rest and of appetite, but even induced such a disturbance of assimilation and nutrition that the resulting hypochondriacal condition that developed from these enervating causes ran the patient into a low condition, ending in complete prostration of all vital powers and death,
— from History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance by P. C. (Peter Charles) Remondino

I learn a little all the time; some of my old notions of poetry seem to me now erroneous, even absurd.
— from The Letters of Ambrose Bierce, With a Memoir by George Sterling by Ambrose Bierce

The above report is but the general report upon the working of the law.—It was, we understand, accompanied by a second private and detailed one, regarding the manner in which, at different localities, the law has been carried out.— E DITOR. {273} ON THE MANUFACTURE OF NITRATE OF POTASH (SALTPETRE.)
— from New York Journal of Pharmacy, Volume 1 (of 3), 1852 Published by Authority of the College of Pharmacy of the City of New York. by College of Pharmacy of the City of New York

127 Henry’s magnesia, 69 , 133 Hints, practical, 184 Hoffman’s anodyne liquor, 350 Honey, poisonous, 33 Hydrate of potash, preparation of pure, 36 Hydrate of soda, 26 Hydrocyanic acid and bitter almond water, strength of, 127 Hygeine, public, 259 Hyposulphite of soda, easy method to make, 152 Impurities, test for, in acetic acid, 106 Indelible ink, 305 , 371 Inks, writing, 381 Inspection of the drug law, 125 Internal use of Atropine, 121 Ioduretted oil, artificial, a substitute for cod liver oil, 201 Ipecacuanha, tincture of, 229 Iron, used in Medicine, notes on the preparations of, 250 Iron, protiodide of, new method of preparing and exhibiting, 92 Iron, soda, pyrophosphate of, 350 Itch, ointment of stavesacre in, 4 Jalap, two varieties of false, 155 Jalap, resin of, 60 Jargonelle pear, essence of, 157 Lemon, essence of, preparation of chloroform from, 235 Liquid socotrine aloes, 132 Liquor magnesiæ citratis, 249 Lobeliæ extractum fluidum, 225 Loss in powdering drugs, 132 Magnesiæ citratis, liquor, 199 Magnesia, preparation of pure, 184 Magnesia, Henry’s, 192 Manganese, 273 Manufacture of nitrate of potash, (saltpetre), 305 , 371 Manufacture of writing inks, 169 Matico, pharmacology of, 142 Means of detecting adulterations in sulphate of quinine, 135 Measures, weights and, 186 Medicine and pharmacy in Brazil, 62 Medicines, act relating to, 229 Medicine, preparations of iron used in, 26 Medical hydrocyanic acid, estimation of strength of, 250 Method of preparing and exhibiting protiodide of iron, 343 Method of detecting organic alkaloids in cases of poisoning, 259 Method of easy to make hyposulphite of soda, 205 Mode of ascertaining the purity of essential oil of bitter almonds, 167 Monesia, what is, 221 Movements as a cure in chronic diseases, 285 , 331 National Phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal Convention, 320 National Phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal Convention, delegates to, 318 New alkaloid, discovery of, 351 New remedies, 250 New method of preparing protiodide of iron, 17 Nicotine, poisoning by, 61 Nitrogen of the air, other gases substituted for, 273 Nitrate of potash, manufacture of, 103 , 129 , 193 , 260 , 328 Notes in pharmacy, 58 Notes on the division of gum resins in potions, 89 Notice of some vegetable and animal substances, products of New Granada, 343 Observations on a method of detecting organic alkaloids in cases of poisoning, 355 Observations on the volatility and solubility of cantharidin, 128 Officers of the College of Pharmacy, 240 Oil, cod liver, 172 Oil, Croton, 257 Oil, fusel, 121 Oil, ioduretted, 205 Oil, of bitter almonds, 65 Oil, heavy wine, 154 Oil, test for alcohol in essential, 350 Ointment, stavesacre, 13 Ointment, stramonium, 127 Opium, cultivation of, 318 Opium, residue left by, 45 Opium, letter on, 85 Opium, observations on strength of tincture of, 279 Opium, tincture of, 60 Pear, essence of jargonelle, 148 Perfumery, application of organic chemistry to, 27 Pharmacopœia of the United States, 30 , 157 , 193 , 331 Phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal Convention, 119 , 328 Pharmacy, 352 Pharmacy, College of, 3 , 252 Pharmacy, Journal of, 169 Pharmacology of Matico, 186 Pharmacy in Brazil, 223 Pharmacy in Richmond, 146 Pills, on the envelopment of, 114 Pine apple, essence of, 287 Poisoning by drinking adulterated cider, 190 Poisoning, by tincture of aconite, 17 Poisoning, Nicotine, 273 Potash, nitrate of, 58 Potions, division of gum resins in, 350 Poisonous honey, 225 Powdering drugs, loss in, 229 Preparations of iron used in medicine, 38 Preparations of the pharmacopœia of the United States, 355 Preservation of iodide of iron, 69 Practical hints, 280 Propylamine, prepared from ergotine, 250 Protiodide of iron, new method of preparing, 321 Prosecution of a manufacturer of extract of dandelion, 199 Pure magnesia, 33 Pure Hydrate of potash, 36 Pure Hydrate of Soda, 192 Quinine, spurious sulphate of, 141 , 317 Quinidine, 16 Santonine, 7 Scammony resin, 165 Scammony, Aleppo, 15 Senna and dandelion, compound fluid extract of, 93 Simaba Cedron, 235 Socotorine aloes juice, 350 Stavesacre ointment, 13 Stramonium ointment, 192 Sulphate of quinine, spurious, 142 Sulphate of quinine, adulteration of, 318 Sulphuric acid, action of on the residue left by opium, 224 Suppositories of butter of cacao, 251 Tannate of zinc, 317 Technology, Chemical, 154 Test for alcohol in essential oils, 190 Tincture of aconite, poisoning by, 233 Tincture, Bestucheff’s, 201 Tincture, Ipecacuanha, 279 Tincture, opium, 319 Tincture of rhatany, 289 United States Customs, 296 Use of coal gas as a means of heat in laboratories, 108 Valerianic acid, 7 Virgin Scammony, 135 Weights and Measures, 77 Woorara, 305 , 371 Writing inks, 82 Yatamansi, 368 Yellow jessamine, 251 Zinc, tannate of, chapter dcnts INDEX OF AUTHORS.
— from New York Journal of Pharmacy, Volume 1 (of 3), 1852 Published by Authority of the College of Pharmacy of the City of New York. by College of Pharmacy of the City of New York