The committee repaired to his residence, were received in the hall where he had been accustomed to sit as judge, and merely asked him if the signature affixed to the paper they exhibited to him was his.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon
The defendant was charged with misbranding, because he sold as Java and Mocha a coffee containing Abyssinian coffee.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers
Moreover, he built walls about the caves near the lake of Gennesar, which places lay in the Lower Galilee; the same he did to the places of Upper Galilee, as well as to the rock called the Rock of the Achabari, and to Seph, and Jamnith, and Meroth; and in Gaulonitis he fortified Seleucia, and Sogane, and Gamala; but as to those of Sepphoris, they were the only people to whom he gave leave to build their own walls, and this because he perceived they were rich and wealthy, and ready to go to war, without standing in need of any injunctions for that purpose.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus
Three days later there came another heavy snowstorm, and Jonas and Marija and Ona and little Stanislovas all set out together, an hour before daybreak, to try to get to the yards.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
The American fire-brigades—or departments, as they are called—may be broadly divided into two classes: those of great cities, consisting of a paid staff of officers and men, devoting all their time to the service; and, secondly, those of smaller places, consisting of a staff of unpaid volunteers, pursuing their usual daily avocations, but agreeing to respond to fire-alarms;—these men, though unpaid, are generally exempt from service as jurymen and militiamen, and sometimes are permitted a slight abatement of taxation.
— from Firemen and Their Exploits With some account of the rise and development of fire-brigades, of various appliances for saving life at fires and extinguishing the flames. by F. M. (Frederic Morell) Holmes
sea had risen a good deal when we got under steam again, and clouds scudded over the sun; but we set stay-sails and jibs, and made a fine pace towards the shores of America.
— from The Iron Pirate: A Plain Tale of Strange Happenings on the Sea by Max Pemberton
"Sneer and jeer as much as you like, madam, you will not look so merry when your sister is in prison on a charge of murder." "Which she never will be," put in Ellis.
— from The Crimson Cryptogram: A Detective Story by Fergus Hume
@Saudi Arabia:Government Country name: conventional long form: Kingdom of Saudi Arabia conventional short form: Saudi Arabia local long form: Al Mamlakah al Arabiyah as Suudiyah local short form: Al Arabiyah as Suudiyah Data code: SA Government type: monarchy Capital: Riyadh Administrative divisions: 13 provinces (mintaqat, singular - mintaqah); Al Bahah, Al Hudud ash Shamaliyah, Al Jawf, Al Madinah, Al Qasim, Ar Riyad, Ash Sharqiyah (Eastern Province), 'Asir, Ha'il, Jizan, Makkah, Najran, Tabuk Independence: 23 September 1932 (unification)
— from The 2000 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
So he did, and was now working in the B.&.B. store at Prescott, selling saddles and jewellery and molasses and canned fruit and lumber, and such things.
— from Ma Pettengill by Harry Leon Wilson
The boat's crew were rough and dirty, and scoffed and jeered at me and otherwise made the sail across the lagoon to Tuuhora as disagreeable as they could.
— from Life of a Pioneer: Being the Autobiography of James S. Brown by James S. (James Stephens) Brown
It makes us selfish and jealous and mean and grabby.
— from Little Foxes: Stories for Boys and Girls by E. A. Henry
Benedetto was around, but he was as busy as Slovetski, and just as mysterious about what occupied him.
— from Preferred Risk by Edson McCann
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