He weighed ideas, balanced them, discarded them, reflected, reconsidered, tried to reconcile contradictions, and finally came to what seemed to him at the moment the synthesis of the issue which seemed acceptable to reason and sentiment.
— from The Jewish State by Theodor Herzl

But no; with scarcely a pause Lizzie took the leap, stumbled among the rough clods and fell.
— from Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

In 1847–48, William and Elizabeth Dakin were granted patents in England on an apparatus for "cleaning and roasting coffee and for making decoctions."
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Baháwun ta ning bibingka, Let’s put these rice cakes aside for later.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Now the republican constitution apart from the soundness of its origin, since it arose from the [p. 122] pure source of the concept of right, has also the prospect of attaining the desired result, namely, perpetual peace.
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

She took his hand and led him into a room carpeted and furnished like her own; indeed, down to the smallest details, it was a reproduction in miniature of Delphine’s apartment.
— from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

They could go into any of the Reformed Churches and find no images in them, and listen to the reading of their own Scriptures, to the singing of their own Psalms, and to sermons which were of a character to awaken and to edify them.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

I saw several robes of their skins among the natives.as the evening was rainy cold and far advanced and ourselves wet we determined to remain all night.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Because heaven and hell are mentioned in the scriptures, and to be believed necessary by Christians: so cunningly can the devil and his ministers, in imitation of true religion, counterfeit and forge the like, to circumvent and delude his superstitious followers.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Resolutely, coolly, and for some time he enlarged upon the text that no man should be prevented from getting his food and his children’s food honestly.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

We had some rigging cut, a few of our spars slightly injured, and two men hurt, one of whom happened to be Neb.
— from Afloat and Ashore: A Sea Tale by James Fenimore Cooper

Your first game can be the rabbit contest, and for this let each child in turn be blindfolded and try to pin the ears on the rabbit.
— from When Mother Lets Us Give a Party A book that tells little folk how best to entertain and amuse their little friends by Elsie Duncan Yale

I order you to come back!' Howsoever, Mr. Cunningham didn't or wouldn't hear him; but, after awhile, the blackfellow runs clean away from him, and he come back pretty red in the face, and his boots cut all to pieces.
— from Old Melbourne Memories Second Edition, Revised by Rolf Boldrewood

Further on was the room, clean and fragrant, known as Mrs. Alison's room.
— from Foes by Mary Johnston

They communicate to stars, rains, &c. a flame between a blue and green.
— from A System of Pyrotechny Comprehending the theory and practice, with the application of chemistry; designed for exhibition and for war. by James Cutbush

It was M. de Fontanes, I like to repeat, who encouraged my first attempts: it was he who announced the publication of the Génie du Christianisme ; it was his muse which, full of astonished devotion, directed mine in the new paths along which it had precipitated itself: he taught me to conceal the deformity of objects by the manner of throwing light upon them; to put classic language into the mouths of my romantic characters as far as in me lay.
— from The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England, Volume 2 (of 6) Mémoires d'outre-tombe, volume 2 by Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de

Division commanders may read this to regimental commanders, and furnish brigade commanders a copy.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

36:35 They shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are fortified and inhabited.
— from The World English Bible (WEB), Complete by Anonymous

But you have practically but one soil to deal with, a true limestone soil of high fertility, which has received considerable accessions from silicious rocks.
— from Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 3, January 19, 1884. A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside by Various