See that they sweep UNDER the beds, and put clean sheets and pillow-cases on, and turn down one corner of the bed-clothes, just as you know it ought to be done; and have a can of hot water, and clean towels, and fresh cakes of soap, put in each room.
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

The Sentence: Subject and Predicate; Kinds of Sentences.—Use of words in the Sentence: the Eight Parts of Speech; Infinitives and Participles.—Comparative Importance of the Parts of Speech in the Sentence: the Subject Noun (or Simple Subject); the Predicate Verb (or Simple Predicate); Compound Subject and Predicate.—Substitutes for the Parts of Speech: Phrases; Clauses; Compound and Complex Sentences.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

9. In barbarôrum aedificiîs maior côpia frûmentî reperta est. 10. Nêmô crêbrîs proeliîs contendere sine aliquô perîculô potest.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

ANT: Tenuity, minority, dismemberment, disintegration, diminution, portion, contraction, section, atom, particle.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

The Protestant clergymen who profess "Christian Socialism" are playing the same part.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

Cephallenia lies off Acarnania and Leucas, and consists of four states, the Paleans, Cranians, Samaeans, and Pronaeans.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

as she sayes Palamon hath sung in prison; Come to her, stucke in as sweet flowers as the season is mistres of, and thereto make an addition of som other compounded odours, which are grateful to the sence: all this shall become Palamon, for Palamon can sing, and Palamon is sweet, and ev'ry good thing: desire to eate with her, carve her, drinke to her, and still among, intermingle your petition of grace and acceptance into her favour: Learne what Maides have beene her companions and play-pheeres, and let them repaire to her with Palamon in their mouthes, and appeare with tokens, as if they suggested for him.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Political wars, wars for national union and unity, of which there were so many during the past century, seem at present not to be near at hand; and the integration of European nations—what may be called the great mission of war—is, for the moment, practically complete; for it is highly improbable that either Alsace-Lorraine or Poland—still less Finland—will be the cause of a war of this kind.
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

The iodic acid thus formed acts on a further quantity of the potassium chlorate, sets a portion of the chloric acid free, and in this manner the action is kept up.
— from The Principles of Chemistry, Volume I by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev

I never could understand how people could scheme and plot for such things.
— from Cradock Nowell: A Tale of the New Forest. Vol. 2 (of 3) by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

52 With the methods of growing, cleaning and thrashing wheat practised in Great Britain, practically clean samples are produced, and home grown wheat is therefore on the whole fairly free from impurities.
— from The Story of a Loaf of Bread by T. B. (Thomas Barlow) Wood

Page 62 Steel for making balls of average size is made up of: Carbon 0.95 to 1.05 per cent Silicon 0.20 to 0.35 per cent Manganese 0.30 to 0.45 per cent Chromium 0.35 to 0.45 per cent Sulphur and phosphorus not to exceed 0.025 per cent For the larger sizes a typical analysis is: Carbon 1.02 per cent Silicon 0.21 per cent Manganese 0.40 per cent Chromium 0.65 per cent Sulphur 0.026 per cent Phosphorus 0.014 per cent Balls 5/8 in.
— from The Working of Steel Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel by K. A. (Kristian A.) Juthe

It was placed, in obedience to the maxim that war and what the Professors call sentimentality are poles asunder, close to one of the hospitals, under the shadow and protection of the Red Cross.
— from Verdun to the Vosges: Impressions of the War on the Fortress Frontier of France by Gerald Campbell

The Cornell captain, not knowing of this man's physical condition, sent a play in his direction.
— from Football Days Memories of the Game and of the Men behind the Ball by William H. (William Hanford) Edwards

He, still more aged, feels the shocks, From which no power can save, And, partner once of Tiney's box, Must soon partake his grave.
— from Stories about Animals: with Pictures to Match by Francis C. (Francis Channing) Woodworth

If the cream can be obtained in a sweet condition, the maker through this process of pasteurization, and the use of pure cultures, secures almost perfect control over the type of fermentation that occurs in the cream, and thus exercises control over the degree and kind of flavor of the product.
— from Outlines of dairy bacteriology, 10th edition A concise manual for the use of students in dairying by E. G. (Edwin George) Hastings