Alexandre Schanne has given us a glimpse of bohemian life in the early cafés.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

I could not bring it into play; it was overwhelmed, buried, lost in those earlier feelings which I had been smarting under year after year.
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen

The son of Duncan, From whom this tyrant holds the due of birth, Lives in the English court and is received Of the most pious Edward with such grace That the malevolence of fortune nothing Takes from his high respect.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

The son of Duncan, From whom this tyrant holds the due of birth, Lives in the English court and is receiv'd Of the most pious Edward with such grace That the malevolence of fortune nothing Takes from his high respect: thither Macduff Is gone to pray the holy king, upon his aid To wake Northumberland, and warlike Siward: That, by the help of these,—with Him above To ratify the work,—we may again Give to our tables meat, sleep to our nights; Free from our feasts and banquets bloody knives; Do faithful homage, and receive free honours,— All which we pine for now: and this report Hath so exasperate the king that he Prepares for some attempt of war.
— from Macbeth by William Shakespeare

] Division of the Legislative Body into two branches—Difference in the manner of forming the two Houses—The principle of the independence of the States predominates in the formation of the Senate—The principle of the sovereignty of the nation in the composition of the House of Representatives—Singular effects of the fact that a Constitution can only be logical in the early stages of a nation.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

The wheel on which the rope works in a block; it is generally formed of lignum vitæ, sometimes of brass, and frequently of both; the interior part, or that which sustains the friction against the pin, being of brass, let into the exterior, which is of lignum vitæ, and is then termed a sheave with a brass coak, bouche , or bush.
— from The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by W. H. (William Henry) Smyth

The plains, the useful and beautiful valleys of Badakshan, lie in the embrace of a kind of mountain horse-shoe, which shuts them off from the Oxus on the north-east and east and winds round to the Hindu Kush on the south.
— from The Gates of India: Being an Historical Narrative by Holdich, Thomas Hungerford, Sir

A remnant of believers, members of the one body, left in the earth during the great tribulation would still hinder the revelation of Antichrist and postpone it.
— from Studies in Prophecy by Arno Clemens Gaebelein

"The son of Duncan From whom this tyrant holds the due of birth, Lives in the English court; and is received Of the most pious Edward with such grace That the malevolence of fortune nothing Takes from his high respect."
— from The Spell of Scotland by Keith Clark

Later an article on the Code of Hammurabi in the Supplementary Volume of Hastings’s Bible Dictionary and one on Babylonian Law in the Encyclopaedia Britannica afforded me the chance of setting out some results of my research upon the Code in its relation to the ancient civilization of Babylonia, with a rapid glance at its relations to Israelite Law.
— from The Relations between the Laws of Babylonia and the Laws of the Hebrew Peoples The Schweich Lectures by C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter) Johns

An iron pump let into the wall of the churchyard at the upper end of Bride Lane indicates the exact spot where the dames of old were wont to drink the virtuous waters.
— from Names: and Their Meaning; A Book for the Curious by Leopold Wagner

I re-entered the well-remembered street of Ballinamore late in the evening, after an absence of three years.
— from Bentley's Miscellany, Volume I by Various

August Naab did not hold to the letter of the Mormon law; he argued that if the children could not be raised as Mormons with a full knowledge of the world, they would only be lost in the end to the Church.
— from The Heritage of the Desert: A Novel by Zane Grey

To persons thus sincerely, and, at the same time, to Pg 134 lerantly, devout, the spectacle of a great mind, like that of Byron, labouring in the eclipse of scepticism, could not be otherwise than an object of deep and solemn interest.
— from Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 2 With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore