By this time, the pumping percolator, working by steam pressure and by partial vacuum, was in general use in France, England, and Germany.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

But no one could maintain that from this definition it follows that we are not compelled to postulate design in the mind of the artist who paints a beautiful picture.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

The soldiers dragged it awkwardly from the post and began pushing it into the pit.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

According to this hypothesis, [147] the organic process accompanied by pleasure is to be conceived as a “restoration of equilibrium” after “disturbance”: so that the absence of appreciable pleasure in the case of certain normal activities is explained by the absence of antecedent disturbance.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

] ORGEMONT (D'), brother of the preceding, a Breton priest who took the oath of allegiance.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

Camped on the L Side, passed an Island Situated on the L. Side at the head of which & Mandans village S. S. we passd a bad place—The hunters killed a buffalow bull, they Say out of about 300 buffalow which they Saw, they did not See one Cow.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

"Now, pet," said my guardian, "if it would not be irksome to you to admit the harmless little creature one afternoon before you save Boythorn's otherwise devoted house from demolition, I believe you would make her prouder and better pleased with herself than I—though my eminent name is Jarndyce—could do in a lifetime."
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

We, who have no such optical powers, are better pleased to take our last parting look at the visionary companions of many solitary hours, when the brief sunshine of the world is blazing full upon them.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

But according to my method of advising just and profitable things, I say that you will do your consciences more right to set me at liberty, unless you see further into my cause than I do; and, judging according to my past actions, both public and private, according to my intentions, and according to the profit that so many of our citizens, both young and old, daily extract from my conversation, and the fruit that you all reap from me, you cannot more duly acquit yourselves towards my merit than in ordering that, my poverty considered, I should be maintained at the Prytanaeum, at the public expense, a thing that I have often known you, with less reason, grant to others.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

The key to resolve the contradiction, that thus arises out of the nature of the case, was at last found by Kant through the distinction he drew with profound acumen, between phaenomena and the Thing in itself ( das Ding an sich ).
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

C7-447 Mrs. Paine was planning a birthday party for one of her children on that weekend and her husband, Michael, was to be at the house.
— from Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by United States. Warren Commission

Somebody had once insisted on isolating this quarter as much as possible, and brick partitions had been put up that happily interfered with the spread of the fire and allowed all the operatives a chance to escape.
— from The Knights of the White Shield Up-the-Ladder Club Series, Round One Play by Edward A. (Edward Augustus) Rand

We both drew a long breath of relief, for we thought the boat was going to 'Frisco and that we'd have to pay a big price.
— from An American Hobo in Europe A True Narrative of the Adventures of a Poor American at Home and in the Old Country by Ben Goodkind

From the portrait by John Partridge at Buckingham Palace To face p. 176, Vol.
— from The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861 Volume 1, 1837-1843 by Queen of Great Britain Victoria

Again, Vee, who has repeatedly obtained the alkaloid in a crystalline condition, directs the extraction of the beans by alcohol, the alcoholic solution to be treated as before with sodic carbonate, and then with ether; the ethereal solution to be evaporated to dryness, dissolved in dilute acid, precipitated by sugar of lead, and the filtrate from this precipitate alkalised by potassic bicarbonate, and then shaken up with ether.
— from Poisons, Their Effects and Detection A Manual for the Use of Analytical Chemists and Experts by Alexander Wynter Blyth

Following the popular trend of those days, pursued by almost every young man of promise, Mr. Watts chose law as a profession, and began practicing at Greenville.
— from Makers and Romance of Alabama History by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Riley

For that Soveraign, cannot be imagined to love his People as he ought, that is not Jealous of them, but suffers them by the flattery of Popular men, to be seduced from their loyalty, as they have often been, not onely secretly, but openly, so as to proclaime Marriage with them In Facie Ecclesiae by Preachers; and by publishing the same in the open streets: which may fitly be compared to the violation of the second of the ten Commandements.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

After you haue got in your white Corne, you shall then looke vnto your Pulse, as Beanes, Pease, Fitches, and such like, which you shall know to be ready by the blacknesse of the straw: for it is a rule, whensoeuer the straw turnes, the Pulse is ripe.
— from The English Husbandman The First Part: Contayning the Knowledge of the true Nature of euery Soyle within this Kingdome: how to Plow it; and the manner of the Plough, and other Instruments by Gervase Markham

The unctuous plausibility of the pretense that prisons are beneficent purgatories and not hells renders it the more sickening.
— from The Subterranean Brotherhood by Julian Hawthorne