Not the ambitious young Jewish reporter who runs around the streets gathering news, perhaps, but the journalist at the seat of the news and at the necks of those two or three important international runways through which the news of the world flows.
— from The International Jew : The World's Foremost Problem by Anonymous

A long strip of moldering metal from one of the long vertical faces pulled away, exposing red rust that went whoosh and was sucked into the interior of the mass.
— from The Marching Morons by C. M. (Cyril M.) Kornbluth

In an instant I had caught him round the waist, and held him up while Holmes and Pycroft untied the elastic bands which had disappeared between the livid creases of skin.
— from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

617 It is this "code of hell" set forth in the "Projet de Révolution" that we shall find repeated in succeeding documents throughout the last hundred years--in the correspondence of the "Alta Vendita," in the Dialogues aux
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

I promised to go again to Mr. Pierce’s, but my pain grew so great, besides a bruise I got to-day in my right testicle, which now vexes me as much as the other, that I was mighty melancholy, and so by coach home and there took another glyster, but find little good by it, but by sitting still my pain of my bruise went away, and so after supper to bed, my wife and I having talked and concluded upon sending my father an offer of having Pall come to us to be with us for her preferment, if by any means I can get her a husband here, which, though it be some trouble to us, yet it will be better than to have her stay there till nobody will have her and then be flung upon my hands. 17th.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

OUR RABBIS Every group will have its Rabbi, travelling with his congregation.
— from The Jewish State by Theodor Herzl

But my heart bled so much for you, my dear father, who had taken the pains to go yourself, and inquire after your poor daughter, as well as for my dear mother, that I resolved to write, and pretty much in the above form, that it might be sent to pacify you, till I could let you, somehow or other, know the true state of the matter.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

“Well then, as to Old Orlick, he 's a going up town,” retorted that worthy.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Note 15 ( return ) [ This word" Gymnasium" properly denotes a place where the exercises were performed naked, which because it would naturally distinguish circumcised Jews from uncircumcised Gentiles, these Jewish apostates endeavored to appear uncircumcised, by means of a surgical operation, hinted at by St. Paul, 1 Corinthians 7:18, and described by Celsus, B. VII.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

PRUDENCE A quality of mind that restrains the wise boarder from trying to find out how his landlady makes her hash.
— from The Foolish Dictionary An exhausting work of reference to un-certain English words, their origin, meaning, legitimate and illegitimate use, confused by a few pictures [not included] by Gideon Wurdz

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— from Arqtiq: A Study of the Marvels at the North Pole by Anna Adolph

[Pg 449] Seven-day trips:— Mirror Lake, Tenaya Lake Lodge, White Cascades, Le Conte and California Falls, Tuolumne Meadows, Soda Springs, Tuolumne Soda Springs Camp, Donohue Pass, Mount Lyell, Nevada and Illilouette Falls, and Glacier Point Hotel 21.00 Eight-day trips:— Mirror Lake, Tenaya Lake Lodge, White Cascades, Le Conte and California Falls, Tuolumne Meadows, Soda Springs, Tuolumne Soda Springs Camp, Donohue Pass, Mount Lyell, Merced Lake Lodge, Merced Soda Springs, and Washburn Lake 24.00 Nine-day trips:— Mirror Lake, Tenaya Lake Lodge, Cascades, Le Conte and California Falls, Tuolumne Meadows, Soda Springs, Tuolumne Soda Springs Camp, Tuolumne Pass, Mount Lyell, Merced Lake Lodge, Merced Soda Springs, Washburn Lake, and Glacier Point Hotel 27.00 Automobile trips to points reached by road may be made at the following rates:— From Sentinel Hotel or any of the permanent camps:— To or from Happy Isles or Mirror Lake, one way $ .75 Round trip to Happy Isles or Mirror Lake 1.25 To Bridal Veil Falls, one way 1.00 To Bridal Veil Falls, round trip 1.75 To Happy Isles, Mirror Lake, the Village, Cathedral Rocks, Bridal Veil Falls, El Capitan, round trip 3.25 To Happy Isles, Mirror Lake, the Village, Cathedral Rocks, Bridal Veil Falls, El Capitan, Artist and Inspiration Points, round trip 4.50 To Artist and Inspiration Points, round trip 3.00 From Yosemite Valley:— To Wawona, one way 5.50 To Wawona, round trip 9.50 To Mariposa Big Tree Grove and return to Wawona 7.75 To Mariposa Big Tree Grove, round trip 11.25 [Pg 450]
— from Your National Parks, with Detailed Information for Tourists by Enos A. Mills

His hardest fighting in the field was with rival Scots rather than with the English intruders.
— from The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) by T. F. (Thomas Frederick) Tout

In an instant we both realized that we were imprisoned, and began to bang violently upon the heavy doors of iron-bound and unpolished oak, shouting to be let out.
— from The Place of Dragons: A Mystery by William Le Queux

A lamp "smokes" when the air which reaches the wick is insufficient to burn the rapidly formed carbon particles; this explains the danger of turning a lamp wick too high and producing more carbon particles than can be oxidized by the air admitted through the lamp chimney.
— from General Science by Bertha May Clark

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— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 05, November 1884, No. 2 by Chautauqua Institution

604 One of the names of the Jewish Jehovah, “Sabaoth,” or the “Lord of Hosts” ( tsabaoth ), belongs to the Chaldæan Sabæans (or Tsabæans ), and has for its root the word tsab , meaning a “car,” a “ship,” and “an army” ; sabaoth thus meaning literally the army of the ship , the crew , or a naval host , the sky being metaphorically referred to as the “upper ocean” in the doctrine.
— from The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 3 of 4 by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky