Another Arabic manuscript by Bichivili in the Bibliothéque Nationale at Paris furnishes us with this pen picture of the coffee ceremony as practised in Constantinople in the sixteenth century:
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

The pickpocket never asks permission from the man whose pocket he is going to pick.
— from The Hungry Stones, and Other Stories by Rabindranath Tagore

"Mortal soul." Number as perspective form.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

This was not a proper frame of mind to approach any undertaking; an improper frame of mind not only for him, I said, but for any man.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

For these and other Reasons I shall set out for London to Morrow, having found by Experience that the Country is not a Place for a Person of my Temper, who does not love Jollity, and what they call Good-Neighbourhood.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Fret not, neither despond nor be disheartened, if it be not always possible for you to act according to your principles of perfection.
— from The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus A new rendering based on the Foulis translation of 1742 by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

Then we named the mine “Monarch of the Mountains” (modesty of nomenclature is not a prominent feature in the mines), and Mr. Ballou wrote out and stuck up the following “notice,” preserving a copy to be entered upon the books in the mining recorder’s office in the town.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

Nevertheless a prominent feature of the gathering was the total absence of what is vulgarly known as “common sense.”
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

After breakfast the four couples went to what was then called the King’s Square to see a newly arrived plant from India, whose name escapes our memory at this moment, and which, at that epoch, was attracting all Paris to Saint-Cloud.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Newman and Pusey ; for an entirely new method of introducing heat into churches.
— from The Comic Almanack, Volume 2 (of 2) An Ephemeris in Jest and Earnest, Containing Merry Tales, Humerous Poetry, Quips, and Oddities by Gilbert Abbott À Beckett

He bartered likewise to foreign nations and princes, for gold, the titles of allies and kings; and squeezed out of Ptolemy alone near six thousand talents, in the name of himself and Pompey.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 01: Julius Caesar by Suetonius

It is manifest upon an inspection of the Constitution that this is not among the specific and enumerated powers granted to Congress, and it is equally apparent that its exercise is not "necessary and proper for carrying into execution" any one of these powers.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

Well, we had among the “NN” prisoners in Natzweiler a priest from Norway.
— from Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremburg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946, Volume 6 by Various

Had it gone the other way, a new and possibly formidable flag would have been added to the maritime nations.
— from The War in South Africa, Its Cause and Conduct by Arthur Conan Doyle

"It is quite clear," she added, "that this is not a passing fancy on her part."
— from The Duke's Children by Anthony Trollope

So the maiden believes her nurse, and puts full confidence in her.
— from Four Arthurian Romances by Chrétien, de Troyes, active 12th century

Large Crown 8vo, Cloth Gilt, Illustrated, 2/6 Chambers' Journal says:--"The diffidence of the authoress of 'Laddie' has hitherto prevented her real name and portrait from going forth to the public.
— from Princess Sarah, and Other Stories by John Strange Winter

News of the unfinished polyptych remaining on his hands soon came to the ears of Jodoc Vyt, a wealthy burgher, who eagerly embraced the opportunity of striking the bargain by which he acquired all rights in the picture and so linked his name and personality for all time with this ineffable monument of the painter's art.
— from Van Eyck by J. Cyril M. (James Cyril M.) Weale