He marvelled that the door should open so often, and that all the people it let out should look so like each other, and so like all the other hot men who, at that hour, through the length and breadth of the land, were passing continuously in and out of the swinging doors of hotels.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

In 1802, Charles Wyatt obtained a patent in London on an apparatus for distilling coffee.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Sir Mungo Barebones may have some hasty pudding and small beer, though I don't expect to see his coin, no more than to receive the eighteen pence I laid out for a pair of breeches to his backside—what then?
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

The phrase ' a priori ' is less objectionable, and is more usual in modern writers.
— from The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

They went from my native town, and I anticipated much pleasure in looking on familiar faces.
— from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet A. (Harriet Ann) Jacobs

Page ix List of Illustrations Portrait of Rizal
— from Lineage, Life and Labors of José Rizal, Philippine Patriot by Austin Craig

We are much more prudent, in letting ourselves be regulated by the order of the world, without inquiry.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

The next point in logical order would be the degree of responsibility to which the bailee was held as towards his bailor who intrusted him.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Like Grant, he doubtless knew that the man who criticized a war in which his nation is engaged, no matter whether right or wrong, occupies no enviable place in life or history, and that he might better advocate "war, pestilence and famine," than to act as an obstructionist to a war already begun.
— from Lincoln, the Politician by T. Aaron Levy

We formed up as quickly as possible in "Line of troop column," and then moved along the plain to the east, heading slightly towards the north, gradually nearing the north side as we proceeded forward.
— from Through Palestine with the Twentieth Machine Gun Squadron by Unknown

He persisted in looking on his employment as merely provisional and temporary; so that, in fact, the worse things became in his Whitford life, the less he would do to mend them, taking every fresh disgust and annoyance as a new reason why—according to any rationally conceivable theory of events—he must speedily be removed to a region in which a gentleman of his capacities for refined enjoyment might be free to exercise them, untrammelled by vulgar cares.
— from A Charming Fellow, Volume II by Frances Eleanor Trollope

An earthquake may shake and overturn the foundations of a city—the avalanche may overwhelm the hamlet—and the crater of a volcano may pour its lava over fertile plains and populous villages—but a whole nation cannot vanish from the sight of the world, without leaving some traces of its existence, some marks of habits and customs.
— from Diary in America, Series Two by Frederick Marryat

So the Government started out in this case, and not finding a great point had to put in little ones, and we have to answer the kind of points they make.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll

Festivals, 406-428 ; full development of, 407 ; higher phase in life of people, 406 .
— from The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt

Loc´ular , Loc´ulate , Loc´ulose , Loc´ulous ( loculus , a box, cell), divided by internal partitions into loculi or cells.
— from Toadstools, mushrooms, fungi, edible and poisonous; one thousand American fungi How to select and cook the edible; how to distinguish and avoid the poisonous, with full botanic descriptions. Toadstool poisons and their treatment, instructions to students, recipes for cooking, etc., etc. by Charles McIlvaine

[Pg ix] LIST OF PLATES St. Benedict, Patriarch of Western Monks From a painting by Sassoferrato at Perugia.
— from English Monastic Life by Francis Aidan Gasquet

But if his face is narrow across the cheek bones, and especially if it runs perpendicularly down to the jaw-corners from that point instead of tapering, the person is large of the Osseous type.
— from How to Analyze People on Sight Through the Science of Human Analysis: The Five Human Types by Elsie Lincoln Benedict