The inhabitants most religiously eat pancakes on Shrove Tuesday, hot cross-buns on Good Friday, and roast goose at Michaelmas; they send love-letters on Valentine’s Day, burn the Pope on the Fifth of November, and kiss all the girls under the mistletoe at Christmas.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

The popular accounts which we have of religious revivals do not at first suggest any very definite relations, either psychological or sociological, between them and the literary revivals to which reference has just been made.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

He made a second journey through Kordofan, and received everywhere promises of support from all classes.
— from The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan by Winston Churchill

Nor is he a poet of ideals, as they are called, whether they be religious, ethical, political, or social.
— from Ariosto, Shakespeare and Corneille by Benedetto Croce

Few men have the power of will to hold themselves to the rigid, exacting plan of study that he imposed upon himself.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 04, April 1884, No. 7 by Chautauqua Institution

The old engineer dived into his engine room and the Southern Cross, with her gauges registering every pound of steam her boilers could carry, rushed through the water as she never had before in all her plodding career.
— from The Boy Aviators' Polar Dash; or, Facing Death in the Antarctic by John Henry Goldfrap

Riveting the underframe The steel end posts in position, providing strongest possible protection in case of collision The car is now subjected to a thorough sand-blasting, a process that removes every particle of scale, grease, or dirt and leaves the steel in perfect condition to receive the first coat of paint and the insulation.
— from The Story of the Pullman Car by Joseph Husband

We have learned that chewing is not merely a process of cutting our food into such lumps as we can swallow without hurting ourselves; but that the food must be ground up fine and thoroughly mixed with the saliva, that the saliva may reach every particle of starch.
— from Principles of Public Health A Simple Text Book on Hygiene, Presenting the Principles Fundamental to the Conservation of Individual and Community Health by Thomas Dyer Tuttle

If you buy a hat you find a document pasted inside showing that the government has already levied 2$000 upon the sale; a 4$000 umbrella has a $500 stamp wound round the top of the rod; every pair of shoes has a stamp stuck on the inside of one of the heels—for some reason they have not yet thought of selling each shoe separately.
— from Working North from Patagonia Being the Narrative of a Journey, Earned on the Way, Through Southern and Eastern South America by Harry Alverson Franck

Procure from the butcher's 2 nice calf's feet: scald them, to take off the hair; slit them in two, remove the fat from between the claws, and wash the feet well in warm water; put them into a stewpan, with the above proportion of cold water, bring it gradually to boil, and remove every particle of scum as it rises.
— from The Book of Household Management by Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton