This I now opened, and had the satisfaction to find recorded by the old Surveyor's pen, a reasonably complete explanation of the whole affair.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In 1914–15, Herbert Galt, of Chicago, was granted three United States patents on the Gait coffee pot, made of aluminum, and having two parts, a removable cylinder employing the French drip principle, and the containing pot.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

1914–15—Herbert Galt, Chicago, is granted three United States patents on the Galt coffee pot, all aluminum, having two parts, a removable cylinder employing the French-drip principle, and the containing pot.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

tamque triumphali pompa ambo reges com eorum conjugibus coiere, ut nulla unquam aetas tam celebria festa viderit aut audieriti , no age ever saw the like.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

This I now opened, and had the satisfaction to find, recorded by the old Surveyor's pen, a reasonably complete explanation of the whole affair.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Divine Right , a claim on the part of kings, now all but extinct, though matter of keen debate at one time, that they derive their authority to rule direct from the Almighty, and are responsible to no inferior power, a right claimed especially on the part of and in behalf of the Bourbons in France and the Stuart dynasty in England, and the denial of which was regarded by them and their partisans as an outrage against the ordinance of very Heaven.
— from The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall

Accordingly, merchants prefer a representative currency, even though its representative character be somewhat problematical.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 81, July, 1864 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

He was the popular candidate among the progressive element of his people, and rather confidently expected the appointment.
— from The Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue by Various

Nearly all of those who forced the gates of the Tuileries, or rather, who got inside of them on the 20th of June, were outsiders or onlookers, got together at the sight of such a lot of pikes and red caps, etc.
— from The French Revolution - Volume 2 by Hippolyte Taine

The cracks are continually uniting and dividing, but are not parallel, and rarely cross each other.
— from Common Minerals and Rocks by William O. (William Otis) Crosby

It was the common centre in my mind from which all the radii of thought had their direction; the nucleus around which I had gathered all that my ardent imagination could conceive, or a memory stored with all the delicious dreams of poetry and romances could embody, of female excellence and purity and constancy.
— from Margaret Smith's Journal, and Tales and Sketches, Complete Volume V of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier by John Greenleaf Whittier

It is stated in the Manual of Tanjore (1883) that the “Pallan and Paraiya are rival castes, each claiming superiority over the other; and a deadly and never-ending conflict in the matter of caste privileges exists between them.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 5 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

"Even keel, if you please," again requested Commander Ennerling.
— from The Submarine Boys' Trial Trip "Making Good" as Young Experts by Victor G. Durham

At this time, Charles Emanuel I., Duke of Savoy, was preparing to invade the Marquisate of Saluzzo, and the confusion caused by the expedition of troops over Mt. Cenis interfered with the progress of the trial, which was postponed till the 27th of August, and again, since the passage of armed men was still going on ( actento transitu armigerorum ), till the 3rd of September, when Antoine Filliol declared that he could not accept for his clients the offer made by the plaintiffs, because the place was sterile and neither sufficiently nor suitably supplied with food for the support of the said animals; he demanded, therefore, that the proposal be rejected and the action dismissed with costs to the complainants ( petit agentes repelli cum expensis ).
— from The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals by E. P. (Edward Payson) Evans