As the package business grew in the United States, the machinery manufacturers kept pace; until now there are machines that, in one continuous operation, open up a "flat" paper carton, seal the bottom fold, line the carton with a protecting paper, weigh the coffee as it comes down from an overhead hopper into the carton, fold the top and seal it, and then wrap the whole package in a waxed or [Pg 403] paraffined paper, delivering the package ready for shipment without having been touched by a human hand from the first operation to the last.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

As for the remainder of the party, they saw how the land lay, and vamosed to parts unknown, namely, the American Rancho, where they arrived at four o'clock in the morning, some tired, I guess , and made such a fearful inroad upon the eatables that the proprietor stood aghast, and was only pacified by the ordering in from the bar of a most generous supply of the drinkable, which, as he sells it by the glass, somewhat reconciled him to the terrific onslaught upon the larder.
— from The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 by Dame Shirley

Pet would know what was coming, but would ask: "Pray, what is it, Mrs. Crull?" "Why, I found out that, if you give good dinners and big parties, and keep a carriage, and have a conservatory, and rent a pew up near the altar, your little shortcomin's in grammar isn't no objection to you.
— from Round the Block: An American Novel by John Bell Bouton

Singing of Wendel men, Ambri and Assi; How to the Winilfolk Went they with war-words— ‘Few are ye, strangers, And many are we; Pay us now toll and fee, Clothyarn, and rings, and beeves; Else at the raven’s meal Bide the sharp bill’s doom.’
— from Hypatia — or New Foes with an Old Face by Charles Kingsley

There is a special psychological effect, in the Harvard and not in the Hallowell and Smith’s sense, when you come unexpectedly in print upon news that affects yourself.
— from Gray youth: The story of a very modern courtship and a very modern marriage by Oliver Onions

A few years ago, Turkey and Italy had a friendly political understanding; now they are at war!
— from Paris Talks by `Abdu'l-Bahá

At Winchester—On the Road thence to Tom's Brook, New Market, and Staunton 17 CHAPTER III At Staunton—Thence to Waynesboro, Meacham's, and Richmond 32 CHAPTER IV At Libby—Thence to Clover, Danville, Greensboro, and Salisbury—Effort to Pledge us not to Attempt Escape 43 CHAPTER V At Salisbury—Great Plot to Escape—How Frustrated 60 CHAPTER VI From Salisbury to Danville—The Forlorn Situation—Effort to "Extract Sunshine from Cucumbers"—The Vermin—The Prison Commandant a Yale Man—Proposed Theatricals—Rules Adopted—Studies—Vote in Prison for Lincoln and McClellan—Killing Time 77 CHAPTER VII Exact Record of Rations in Danville—Opportunity to Cook—Daily Routine of Proceedings from Early Dawn till Late at Night 93
— from Lights and Shadows in Confederate Prisons A Personal Experience, 1864-5 by Homer B. (Homer Baxter) Sprague