Dr. Hooper has found the following substances in the bark of the Champana : a volatile oil with a pine-like odor; a fixed oil, insoluble in alcohol, melting at 15° and forming soap with soda; a resin extremely bitter, acrid, brown in color; tannin; sugar; a bitter principle, albuminoids, coloring matters, mucilage and starch.
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera

Then the patient face, with the old resigned expression, but a brighter, wistful look in the eye, was regularly met on the crowded decks of the steamer as she disembarked her living freight.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

It was likewise intended that the Tyrians who might sail near to injure the men engaged in the construction of the mole should not retire easily, being assailed by missiles from the towers.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

"The French, among their other mistakes respecting our tragedies, etc., assert that such scenes could not be represented except by a barbarous people.
— from Hogarth's Works, with life and anecdotal descriptions of his pictures. Volume 3 (of 3) by John Ireland

In the nearest village to Juhani's home an adult school had been recently established by a big association called the Society for Popular Education.
— from Our Little Finnish Cousin by Clara Vostrovsky Winlow

Then as the trouble increases, knots of veins seem to rise, especially below and behind the knee.
— from Papers on Health by John Kirk

Felix, Bishop of Rome, excommunicated by Acacius, Bishop of Constantinople, i. 352.
— from History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume II (of 2) Revised Edition by John William Draper

THE THEOSOPHICAL REVIEW EDITED BY ANNIE BESANT and G. R. S. MEAD.
— from Avatâras Four lectures delivered at the twenty-fourth anniversary meeting of the Theosophical Society at Adyar, Madras, December, 1899 by Annie Besant

And, almost as a rule, Esoteric Buddhism, American Buddhism, Neo-Buddhism, or whatever we may call it, is a cave of Adullam to which all types of religious apostates and social malcontents resort.
— from Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 by Frank F. (Frank Field) Ellinwood

If the round earth bears a brand of the infernal, Does the trail of it not taint our native North?
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 10, 1891 by Various

36 As he shut the door, turned on the red electric bulb, and began laying out hypo and the rest of the developing kit, he heard voices from the kitchen directly overhead.
— from The Mystery at Camp Lenape by Carl Saxon

This is by taking a section, according to the thickness of the paper, and forcing the needle through the whole at the kettle-stitch, and on each side of all the bands, at a distance sufficient to secure the stitches from tearing, bringing the thread round each band, as before directed, and fastening it at the end before proceeding with another course.
— from A Manual of the Art of Bookbinding Containing full instructions in the different branches of forwarding, gilding, and finishing. Also, the art of marbling book-edges and paper. by James B. (James Bartram) Nicholson