Here again, if we would substitute for the short sentences a fuller account of what happens, such as could be elicited from any intelligent native informant; if for each word describing the stages of canoe-building we insert a full description of the processes for which these words stand—we would have in this myth an almost complete, ethnographic account of canoe-building.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

The only constituents that are of value are those that are water soluble, and can be extracted readily with hot water.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Public spirit could not be sustained in such a community by exemptions, rivalries, or ambitions.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

All this was done with proper antiphones, still sung and chanted by ear, as we have already observed.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

"They are, indeed," said the Scarecrow, "and I am thankful I am made of straw and cannot be easily damaged.
— from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

Thus, for example, the rising of the sap in a plant follows upon stimuli, and cannot be explained from mere causes, according to the laws of hydraulics or capillary attraction; yet it is certainly assisted by these, and altogether approaches very near to a purely causal change.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

Like most young scribblers, she went abroad for her characters and scenery; and banditti, counts, gypsies, nuns, and duchesses appeared upon her stage, and played their parts with as much accuracy and spirit as could be expected.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

Like most young scribblers, she went abroad for her characters and scenery, and banditti, counts, gypsies, nuns, and duchesses appeared upon her stage, and played their parts with as much accuracy and spirit as could be expected.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

‘I don’t ask the reason of this change, Gilbert,’ said she, with bitter calmness: ‘I know it too well; but though I could see myself suspected and condemned by every one else, and bear it with calmness, I cannot endure it from you.—Why did you not come to hear my explanation on the day I appointed to give it?’
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

She was sensible and clever; but eager in everything: her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Come, place thyself at ease upon this cushioned couch, and give me thy attention, … I feel the fervor rising within me, … I will summon Zabastes, …" Here he pulled a small silken cord which at once set a clanging bell echoing loudly through the palace, …
— from Ardath: The Story of a Dead Self by Marie Corelli

The simplest way to do that is to take a box, say a cigar box (empty, of course); pull off the cover and fasten in the place of [9] it a piece of ground glass if you have one: if not a piece of white letter paper, oiled, will do; bore a hole in the middle of the bottom with a small gimlet and your camera is done.
— from Through a Microscope Something of the Science, Together with many Curious Observations Indoor and Out and Directions for a Home-made Microscope. by Frederick Leroy Sargent

This formation, which does not in Western Australia consist of the stratified primary series, as in South Australia, cannot be expected to yield the abundant mineral riches that the strata of South Australia exhibit.
— from The Bushman — Life in a New Country by Edward Wilson Landor

But it favors the dettor, in a state where money iz scarce and cannot be eezily raized on an emergency.
— from A Collection of Essays and Fugitiv Writings On Moral, Historical, Political, and Literary Subjects by Noah Webster

While all these discoveries were being made, the poor old lady went to live for a time with her supposed son at Croydon; but even she could not manage to stay in the extraordinary household, and after a time, though still strong, despite the advice of her best friends, that the huge impostor was her son, she left, and gradually becoming weaker and weaker in body as well as mind, she was, [298] on the 12th of March 1868, found by a servant dead in a chair, and with no relative or friend at hand, in a hotel near Portman Square, where she had sought and found a shelter.
— from Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton by Anonymous

The part of the vegetable through which the sap ascends can be easily shown in any of the ordinary trees of this country.
— from The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 19, November 7, 1840 by Various

Its crater possesses two main outlets, from which clouds of sulphur-smoke are constantly being emitted.
— from Raiders of the Sarhad Being an Account of the Campaign of Arms and Bluff Against the Brigands of the Persian-Baluchi Border during the Great War by R. E. H. (Reginald Edward Harry) Dyer

In disease of the hip there is always more or less pain, with a feverish state of the system, and gradual failure of the strength; the parts about the joint are tense and swollen; the limb, at first somewhat lengthened, becomes afterwards shortened, and cannot be extended without the greatest suffering; and the motions of the ileo-femoral articulation are forever impaired.
— from Elements of Surgery by Robert Liston