Analysis showed that coffee electrically roasted contained more substances soluble in water than that roasted by coke, as well as considerably more material soluble in ether.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

The Reformation introduced vast changes, not Page 5 [5] only in Protestant countries, where abbeys and all other monastic establishments were generally suppressed, but even in countries which still continued Roman Catholic; many sovereigns, whilst displaying their zeal for the Roman Catholic Church by persecuting its opponents, did not scruple to imitate them in the confiscation of Church property.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

The 1st sheriffs, Thomas White, Robert Charsey; mayor, Sir John Gresham, mercer. 1548.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

“Good, quite right!” cried Mordaunt, springing off his horse.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

“That there Roger Cly, master,” said Mr. Cruncher, with a taciturn and iron-bound visage.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

The 4th, William Alin, Richard Chamberlaine; mayor, Sir Thomas Lodge, grocer.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

There we met Caroline H. Dall, Elizabeth Peabody, Mrs. McCready, the Shakespearian reader, Caroline M. Severance, Dr. Harriot K. Hunt, Charles F. Hovey, Wendell Phillips, Sarah Pugh and others.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

Touching the marriage festival, they shall assemble not more than five male and five female friends of both families; and a like number of members of the family of either sex, and no man shall spend more than his means will allow; he who is of the richest class may spend a mina,—he who is of the second, half a mina, and in the same proportion as the census of each decreases: all men shall praise him who is obedient to the law; but he who is disobedient shall be punished by the guardians of the law as a man wanting in true taste, and uninstructed in the laws of bridal song.
— from Laws by Plato

Did I renewedly consecrate my spared life to his service?
— from A Practical Directory for Young Christian Females Being a Series of Letters from a Brother to a Younger Sister by Harvey Newcomb

The Haworth Drill-sergeant recited “Cockhill Moor Snake,” and Bill o’ th’ Hoylus End gave “Jack o’ th’ Syke Hill” and “Come, nivver dee i’ thi shell, owd lad,”—the latter of which our townsman, Squire Leach, publicly recited on his marriage day, and a few verses of which I am tempted to introduce here:— “Come, nivver dee i’ thi shell, owd lad,” Are words but rudely said, Tho’ they may cheer some stricken heart, Or raise some wretched head;
— from Adventures and Recollections by Bill o'th' Hoylus End

The river Rhine calmly, majestically stole over her senses; she forgot Bellini, Donizetti, even Gounod and soon she was with the Rhine
— from Melomaniacs by James Huneker

Assist, ye powers that rule my fate, Alarm my thoughts, my rage restrain, Convince my soul there's yet a state That must succeed my present pain.
— from Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Fürstenberg seized on this order to refuse Cosel money several times when she required it, for which insult the Countess threatened to give him a slap in the face should she come across him.
— from The Countess Cosel: A Romance of History of the Times of Augustus the Strong by Józef Ignacy Kraszewski