Two or three months were thus employed in discovering the bent of my genius; meantime, I enjoyed, in the finest season of the year, and in a spot it rendered delightful, the charms of a life whose worth I was so highly sensible of, in such a society, as free as it was charming; if a union so perfect, and the extensive knowledge I purposed to acquire, can be called society.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The traps employed in the washing rooms should be of the best possible design and material, and proof against the evil known as "siphoning."
— from The Turkish Bath, Its Design and Construction by Robert Owen Allsop

In Part IV the information about the vocal action obtained from the two sources is combined,—the scientific knowledge of mechanical processes, and the empirical knowledge derived from attentive listening to voices.
— from The Psychology of Singing A Rational Method of Voice Culture Based on a Scientific Analysis of All Systems, Ancient and Modern by David C. (David Clark) Taylor

“No more prating,” answered the exasperated keeper, “thou shalt perish in thy misdeeds!” “Niels, Niels!” cried Mads, “here are witnesses; you have now got me safe enough, I cannot go from you; why not take me to the manor-house, and let the owner do as he likes with me, and you will get good drink-money into the bargain.”
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 by Various

So the dead Prophet and the erring King, By Heaven's own will, not by the witch's craft, Confront each other in the dark retreat.
— from The Death of Saul and other Eisteddfod Prize Poems and Miscellaneous Verses by J. C. Manning

Then at last, through Quendritha's teaching, came the end of the Wessex line, and thereafter the fall of Mercia from her first place among the English kingdoms.
— from A King's Comrade A Story of Old Hereford by Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler

Among the chief gods of this description were the Phœnician Sabazius , the Greek Bacchus-Dionysos , the Roman Priapus , and the Egyptian Khem .
— from Serpent-Worship, and Other Essays, with a Chapter on Totemism by C. Staniland (Charles Staniland) Wake

Comprehending the present improved Mode of Practice, containing all the most valuable Prescriptions and approved Remedies, accurately proportioned and properly adapted to every known disease to which the Horse is incident.
— from The Æsculapian Labyrinth Explored; Or, Medical Mystery Illustrated by William Taplin

Craig could feel the pulsation as the engines kicked the screws over faster.
— from The Lost Warship by Robert Moore Williams

It is a real comfort to live in a nation of truly well-bred people and to encounter kindness after the savage incivility of France.
— from Letters from Egypt by Duff Gordon, Lucie, Lady