It is made of perforated steel plates in cylinder form, and is carried on a hollow shaft through which the hot air is circulated by a pressure fan.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

“I quite understand that you carried the game too far,” Pyotr Stepanovitch persisted stubbornly, “but it’s not a matter of petty scandals with Yulia Mihailovna.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

That meetings of protest should be organized in the industrial towns of Great Britain.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

By the aid of these, of pearl-powder, of rouge, of false hair, false teeth, and false tournure, as well as of the most skilful modistes of Paris, she contrived to hold a respectable footing among the beauties en peu passees of the French metropolis.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

I explained to him that I had not yet revealed the news to my own personal staff or to the army, and that I dreaded the effect when made known in Raleigh.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Certainly these indices, like uniformity, are mere temporary measures of progress, since diversity in the population is not per se an evil.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Seeing a large palace before them, with the door wide open, they went in and found a number of men of prodigious stature sitting on benches in the hall.
— from The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Snorri Sturluson

b to mend or patch s.t.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

For how cruel a necessity was it that compelled the hosts of these victims, not only to see these abominable butcheries in their own houses, but even to perpetrate them: to change their countenance suddenly from the bland kindliness of friendship, and in the midst of peace set about the business of war; and, shall I say, give and receive wounds, the slain being pierced in body, the slayer in spirit!
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

At an epoch when the Cabinet which they supported was so averse to manifestations of political sentiment that a Reformer who spoke his mind in England was seldom long out of prison, and in Scotland ran a very serious risk of transportation, Toryism sat oddly enough on men who spent their days in the committee-room and their evenings on the platform, and each of whom belonged to more Associations combined for the purpose of influencing Parliament than he could count on the fingers of both his hands.
— from Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay. Volume 1 by George Otto Trevelyan

The Report adduces the authority of John Locke, the eminent philosopher, as declaring “the employment of ‘the force, treasure, and offices of the society to corrupt the representatives, or openly to preëngage the electors, and prescribe what manner of persons shall be chosen ,’ as among those breaches of trust in the executive magistrate which amounts to a dissolution of the Government; for ‘what is it,’ he says, ‘but to cut up the Government by the roots, and poison the very fountains of public security?’”
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 20 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

Illustrations are [Pg 3] multiplying on every side of the desire on the part of the progressive South to fulfil the duties and meet the heavy responsibilities thrust upon it by the masses of population submerged in ignorance.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 54, No. 01, January, 1900 by Various

It has hitherto been supposed that a learned constituency was to some extent exempt from the vulgar motives of party spirit, and capable of forming a higher estimate of statesmanship than common tradesmen or tenant-farmers."
— from The Grand Old Man Or, the Life and Public Services of the Right Honorable William Ewart Gladstone, Four Times Prime Minister of England by Richard B. (Richard Briscoe) Cook

Costa Rica no regular military forces; Ministry of Public Security, Government, and Police (2006)
— from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

To coat with mercury only, procure some nitrate of mercury.
— from Getting Gold: A Gold-Mining Handbook for Practical Men by J. C. F. (Joseph Colin Francis) Johnson