They reach full production, which is about one and a half pounds, at the age of six or seven years, though in the districts of Chiapas, Michoacan, Oaxaca, and Puebla, annual yields of three to five pounds per tree have been reported.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

[10] Solar list is of no use; but his two dynasties of Puru and Yadu of the Lunar race are excellent, that part of the line of Puru, from Jarasandha to Chandragupta, being the only correct one in print.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

I came to ask, ma, whether I might dance with the youngest Mr. Crawley,’ whispered the prettier and younger of the two.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Even supposing you produce synthetical judgments (such as the law of Sufficient Reason, which you have never proved, as you ought to, from pure reason a priori , though we gladly concede its truth), you lapse when they come to be employed for your principal object, into such doubtful assertions, that in all ages one Metaphysics has contradicted another, either in its assertions, or their proofs, and thus has itself destroyed its own claim to lasting assent.
— from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant

On one side Obedience is placing a yoke on the neck of a friar who is before her on his knees, and the bands of the yoke are drawn by certain hands towards Heaven; and, enjoining silence with one finger to her lips, she has her eyes on Jesus Christ, who is shedding blood from His side.
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi by Giorgio Vasari

The drawing-room, as I have before observed, was raised two steps above the dining-room, and on the top of the upper step, placed a yard or two back within the room, appeared a large marble basin—which I recognised as an ornament of the conservatory—where it usually stood, surrounded by exotics, and tenanted by gold fish—and whence it must have been transported with some trouble, on account of its size and weight.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

From deficiency of proper insight into all this, many a man will make all kinds of abortive attempts, will do violence to his character in particulars, and yet, on the whole, will have to yield to it again; and what he thus painfully attains will give him no pleasure; what he thus learns will remain dead; even in an ethical regard, a deed that is too noble for his character, that has not sprung from pure, direct impulse, but from a concept, a dogma, will lose all merit, even in his own eyes, through subsequent egoistical repentance.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

He would stay in Paris a year or two in a studio, and test his talent.
— from The Gay Cockade by Temple Bailey

The time limited for receiving subscriptions to the loans proposed by the act making provision for the debt of the United States having expired, statements from the proper department will as soon as possible apprise you of the exact result.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

When gentlemen have a great deal of property in factories, they ought to know all about it, and I have always heard that the only way to do that is to pass a year or two in the trade."
— from Wenderholme: A Story of Lancashire and Yorkshire by Philip Gilbert Hamerton

But I doubt He'll play the tyrant; make her doat too long, Wear the green-sickness as his livery, And pine a year or two.
— from A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 12 by Robert Dodsley

Among his friends were the poet Cowper (at one time his patient), and Young, of the ‘Night Thoughts.’
— from A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume 2 (of 2) From the Extinction of Plague to the Present Time by Charles Creighton

First, you have a vague idea of its size, coupled with wonder at the work of the great Builder of its walls and foundations, then an apprehension of its eternity, a pathetic sense of its perpetualness, and your own transientness, as of the grass upon its sides; then, and in this very sadness, a sense of strange companionship with past generations in seeing what they saw.
— from Modern Painters, Volume 3 (of 5) by John Ruskin

One shrub which I planted a year or two ago has answered far better than I had any right to hope.
— from A Year in a Lancashire Garden Second Edition by Henry Arthur Bright

In twenty-one years the deceased took 226,934 pills, supplied by a respectable apothecary at Bottesford, which was at the rate of 10,806 pills a year, or twenty-nine pills each day; but as the patient began with a more moderate appetite, and increased it as he proceeded, in the last five years he took the pills at the rate of seventy-eight a day, and in the year 1814 he swallowed not less than 51,590.
— from The Queer, the Quaint and the Quizzical: A Cabinet for the Curious by Frank H. Stauffer

This constant good tidings from the City makes him the more glad because of its correspondence with his incessant thought, prayer, and yearning over them.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle of St Paul to the Romans by H. C. G. (Handley Carr Glyn) Moule

In the distance were other misty islands; about the boat flew silver fish, almost blue as they rose from the water; in the roadstead were the three cruisers; and countless rowboats filled with chattering negroes, dressed in their gaudiest colors, bent upon selling fish and sweets to the paymaster and youngsters of the squadron, or ready to dive for pennies.
— from Julia France and Her Times: A Novel by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton