Méot's, the Véry, Beauvilliers', Massé's, the Café Chartres, the Troi Fréres Provençaux, and the du Grand Commun, all situated in the Palais Royal, are cafés that figured conspicuously in the French Revolution, and are closely identified with the French stage and literature.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

She drank the cup of sin, and shame, and misery, whereof her persecuted race are compelled to drink.
— from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet A. (Harriet Ann) Jacobs

This is the Idea of freedom , whose reality, regarded as that of a particular kind of causality (of which the concept, theoretically considered, would be transcendent), may be exhibited by means of practical laws of pure Reason, and conformably to this, in actual actions, and, consequently, in experience.—This is the only one of all the Ideas of pure Reason, whose object is a thing of fact, and to be reckoned under the scibilia .
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

The Master and Wardens, who are named in the dispensation, are, in point of fact, the only persons recognized as constituting the lodge.
— from The Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Landmarks of Freemasonry by Albert Gallatin Mackey

At twelve o'clock Mr. Higgs (of the firm of Higgs & Blatherwick, solicitors, Bedford Row) called by appointment, and was ushered into the governor's private room, and closeted there for more than an hour.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Knowledge of the rules of society, and of how to pay respects and compliments to others.
— from The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks by Vatsyayana

In the second year my uncle Toby purchased Ramelli and Cataneo, translated from the Italian ;—likewise Stevinus, Moralis, the Chevalier de Ville, Lorini, Cochorn, Sheeter, the Count de Pagan, the Marshal Vauban, Mons. Blondel, with almost as many more books of military architecture, as Don Quixote was found to have of chivalry, when the curate and barber invaded his library.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

I have shown how, soon after the deluge, the descendants of Noah separated, one portion, losing their traditions, and substituting in their place idolatrous and polytheistic religions, while the other and smaller portion retained and communicated those original traditions under the name of the Primitive Freemasonry of antiquity.
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey

The banks considered the line a poor risk, and called their loans in connection with it.
— from The Financier: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

Some of the Gentlemen of the Inner-Barr , do present the House with dancing, which is called the Post Revells , and continue their Dances, till the Judges or Bench think meet to rise and depart."
— from Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries by W. F. (William Francis) Dawson

the cauliflowers as in the preceding recipe, and cut the stalks off flat at the bottom; boil them until tender in salt and water, to which the above proportion of butter has been added, and be careful to take them up the moment they are done, or they will break, and the appearance of the dish will be spoiled.
— from The Book of Household Management by Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton

As they had no particular object in view, they chose the pleasantest route, and clearly the pleasantest lay across the sand-hills.
— from Matt: A Story of A Caravan by Robert Williams Buchanan

The Pasha robs and cheats the merchants; knows that the overseer robs him, and bides his time, until he makes him disgorge by the application of the tremendous bastinado; the overseer robs and squeezes the labourer; and the poverty-stricken devil cheats and robs in return; and so the government moves in a happy cycle of roguery.
— from Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo by William Makepeace Thackeray

Actual churches had become pretty rare as Congris took over more and more direction of public life.
— from The Trouble with Truth by Julian F. Grow

After breakfast Alfred sat in the first-class patients' room and counted the minutes and the hours till Edward should come.
— from Hard Cash by Charles Reade

What I would ask you is this: how can you ‘expose me’—to use your courteous phrase—without proof, reliable and certain, that I am guilty?
— from Imogen; Or, Only Eighteen by Mrs. Molesworth

The meeting proved rather a conference than an organisation and the people dispersed to meet again at the call of the chairman.
— from The Columbia River: Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce by William Denison Lyman

Phileas rose and crossed the salon, conscious that he was becoming as red as a cherry.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac