It is surrounded on the inside by a raised platform, covered with mats or cushions, on which the Turks sit cross-legged.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Her sister Varya got on Maika, Nikitin on Count Nulin, the officers on their horses, and the long picturesque cavalcade, with the officers in white tunics and the ladies in their riding habits, moved at a walking pace out of the yard.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

He had gathered, as an industrious man always at his post, a chief share in administering the town charities, and his private charities were both minute and abundant.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

There were several cases of fever in different houses, he said; but Dr. Robertson, after the most careful examination, had assured him that it was not infectious, and that if proper care were taken, there could be no reason for stopping the school-work at present.
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

The portico of each tower is formed of four projecting columns, with a staircase.
— from Travels in the Central Parts of Indo-China (Siam), Cambodia, and Laos (Vol. 1 of 2) During the Years 1858, 1859, and 1860 by Henri Mouhot

These comprise a new pot containing water, a branch of areca blossoms, mango leaves, a kindi containing a gold fanam or gold ring, a little salt and rice, each tied up in a piece of cloth, and a few chillies.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

[Note 46: Yazykoff, a poet contemporary with Pushkin.
— from Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

Within myself, I had sustained, from my babyhood, a perpetual conflict with injustice.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

She saw that without the stimulus of the father's presence, Eustace's interest in politics was less real than his interest in letters, nor did the times seem to her propitious to that philosophic conservatism which might be said to represent the family type of mind.
— from Miss Bretherton by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

[Pg 9] Such precious reliques are not to be obtained by mere labour; they turn up fortuitously, mostly in the covers of old books, and as none that have hitherto been discovered explain their origin and presumed emblematic meaning, it is a chance that the materials for a full and complete history of Playing Cards will ever be obtained.
— from Facts and Speculations on the Origin and History of Playing Cards by William Andrew Chatto

On the credit side of their account with ourselves, seagulls are admittedly assiduous scavengers, and their services in keeping little tidal harbours clear of decaying fish which, if left to accumulate, would speedily breed a pestilence, cannot well be overrated.
— from Birds in the Calendar by Frederick G. (Frederick George) Aflalo

"Only through this combination of our powers can we establish the co-operative commonwealth, wherein the workers shall own their jobs and receive the full social value of their product.
— from The Red Conspiracy by Joseph J. Mereto

Firmly sewn together with wet thongs, the tree is padded, covered with a loose skin, and furnished with stirrup-rings, just sufficiently capacious to embrace the first toe of the shoeless equestrian.
— from The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis, Sir

She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure celestial white With streakings of the morning light; Then, from his mansion in the sun, She called her eagle bearer downy And gave into his mighty hand The symbol of her chosen land!
— from The American Union Speaker by John D. (John Dudley) Philbrick

Hence the author of “Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magic,” printed at Parisy 1852-53—a book less remarkable for its learning than for the earnest belief of a scholar of our own day in the reality of the art of which he records the history—insists much on the necessity of rigidly observing Le Ternaire, in the number of persons who assist in an enchanter’s experiments. (10) I may add that Dr. Kerner instances the effect of laurel-berries on the Seeress of Prevorst, corresponding with that asserted by Julius Faber in the text.
— from A Strange Story — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Driving wheels, 56 inches; wheel base, engine, 23 feet 8 inches; wheel base, engine and tender, 57 feet 4½ inches; weight in working order, engine 166,400 pounds, tender 112,000 pounds; tractive power 35,600 pounds; capacity, water 5,400 gallons, fuel 9 tons.
— from America's Munitions 1917-1918 by Benedict Crowell

Packing cases were made into seats and piles of extra blankets were covered and made into "tumpties," while round the stove stood the interminable clothes horses airing the shirts and sheets, etc., which Lieutenant Franklin brooded over with a watchful eye!
— from Fanny Goes to War by Pat Beauchamp Washington