This reversing of the charges is by no means an uncommon practice in Germany for other purposes.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

But pleasure postulates the existence of something feeling pleasure, so much the more in proportion as the emotion of pleasure is greater; for it is (III.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

Their father had belonged to a type that was more prominent in Germany fifty years ago than now.
— from Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

Numerous coffee-cooling, coffee-grinding, and coffee-making devices were patented in Germany from 1877 to 1885; among them Newstadt's coffee-extract machine in 1882, safety attachments, rapid filters, Vienna coffee makers, etc.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

The friar-artilleryman was playing in good faith and with great care, so he turned red and bit his lip every time Padre Sibyla seemed inattentive or blundered, but he dared not say a word by reason of the respect he felt for the Dominican.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

A decoction of the entire plant well dried and powdered, is given for jaundice in doses of 5 grams a day.
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera

By flattering no irregular passion, it gains few partizans: By opposing so many vices and follies, it raises to itself abundance of enemies, who stigmatize it as libertine profane, and irreligious.
— from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

His son, who was spoiled by his mother, and by himself to please her, he said was the most powerful person in Greece; for the Athenians ruled the Greeks, he ruled the Athenians, his wife ruled him, and his son ruled his wife.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

He produced it gingerly from his pocket-book.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Picrochole incontinently grew furious, and seeing Touchfaucet’s new sword and his scabbard so richly diapered with flourishes of most excellent workmanship, said, Did they give thee this weapon so feloniously therewith to kill before my face my so good friend Rashcalf?
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

put in Gladys, for whom the recital was not going fast enough.
— from The Camp Fire Girls at Onoway House; Or, The Magic Garden by Hildegard G. Frey

The same, however, has not been found necessary [Pg 49] with respect to water reduced to the state of vapour by an additional dose of caloric; since those persons who do not make a particular study of objects of this kind, are still ignorant that water, when in a temperature only a little above the boiling heat, is changed into an elastic aëriform fluid, susceptible, like all other gasses, of being received and contained in vessels, and preserving its gasseous form so long as it remains at the temperature of 80° (212°), and under a pressure not exceeding 28 inches of the mercurial barometer.
— from Elements of Chemistry, In a New Systematic Order, Containing all the Modern Discoveries by Antoine Laurent Lavoisier

A pantomime is not always amusing to persons who have attained a certain age; but a boy at a pantomime is always amused and amusing, and to see his pleasure is good for most hypochondriacs.
— from Some Roundabout Papers by William Makepeace Thackeray

I think one of the Sunday papers at the time had an account of her—they called her 'Typhoid Bridget,' and in red ink she was drawn across the page in gruesome fashion, frying the skulls of her victims in a frying-pan over a roaring fire.
— from The Silent Bullet by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve

The plural is generally formed by adding s to the singular.
— from Word Study and English Grammar A Primer of Information about Words, Their Relations and Their Uses by Frederick W. (Frederick William) Hamilton

Ferdinand, having established peace in Germany, fancied that he could take up again in Italy the work which had been too great for Barbarossa.
— from The Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 by Samuel Rawson Gardiner

I prayed too; prayed for the distant, every way distant,—for those who seem to have forgotten me, and with me all we had in common; prayed for the dead in spirit, if not in body; prayed for myself, that I might never walk the earth "The tomb of my dead self"; and prayed in general for all unspoiled and loving hearts,—no less for all who suffer and find yet no helper.
— from At Home And Abroad; Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe by Margaret Fuller

A new partner is generally found on the succeeding day; but Mr. Thompson gives the case of one being replaced on the evening of the same day.
— from The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex by Charles Darwin

"My purse is gone from my chatelaine!"
— from The Grammar School Boys Snowbound; or, Dick & Co. at Winter Sports by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

If your views of political inquiry go further, to the subjects of money and commerce, Smith’s Wealth of Nations is the best book to be read, unless Say’s Political Economy can be had, which treats the same subjects on the same principles, but in a shorter compass, and more lucid manner.
— from Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 by Thomas Jefferson