Huck Transformed Comfortable Once More High up in Society Contentment PREFACE Most of the adventures recorded in this book really occurred; one or two were experiences of my own, the rest those of boys who were schoolmates of mine.
— from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

After leaving St. Helena he became very generous, disposing of a great quantity of ship stores, claret, preserved meats, and great casks packed with soda-water, brought out for his private delectation.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

SYN: Think, ruminate, reflect, meditate, brood, speculate, contemplate, ponder, muse.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

“And I do believe she can say every word of it,” added Maria, “for she could put Mrs. Grant right the other day in twenty places.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

But, in doing so, I slid off downwards, and before she could prevent me, I glued my lips to the open pouters below me, and greedily devoured all her delicious discharge, and did not desist until I had so licked her clitoris as to make her spend most copiously again.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

238 Best, 198 , 201 Brazil, 198 , 205 Costa Rica, 225 Federated Malay States, 238 Venezuela, 212 Soliman Aga, 91 Soliman the Great, 18 , 19 Sollmann, q. , 182 , 183 Soluble coffee, 404 , 406 Brands, 470 , 538 , 539 History of, 538 , 539 Kato's patent, 471 Processes, 169 U.S. Army war needs, 539 Washington's patent, 471 Soluble Coffee Co., 539 Somers, A.L., 507 Songs of Brittany , 548 Sons of Liberty, 120 Sorenson, John S., 520 Sorenson & Nielson, 482 , 520 Sorley, William, 480 , 491 Sorting machinery, 245 Sorver, Damon & Co., 485 Soulie, 102 Soup, Coffee, 177 Sour ( see Flavors ) South Sea bubble, 571 , 572 Southern boom (1904), 530 Southern Coffee Mills, Inc., 505 Southern Coffee Polishing Mills, 505 Southern Cross, v. , 316 Southern Pacific Co., 489 Souvestre, Emile, q. , 565 Spatula ( see Roasting machinery ), 616 Specialty stores, 415 , 421 Spectator , per.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

My fortune and my will this custome breake, When we are senselesse grown to make stones speak, Though no stone tell thee what I was, yet thou 10 In my graves inside see what thou art now: Yet th'art not yet so good; till us death lay To ripe and mellow there, w'are stubborne clay, Parents make us earth, and soules dignifie Vs to be glasse, here to grow gold we lie; 15 Whilst in our soules sinne bred and pampered is, Our soules become worme-eaten Carkasses.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

A dramatic copyright law of 1909 specifically covers playright, making the term life and forty years and preventing modification of a play by an assignee.
— from Copyright: Its History and Its Law by R. R. (Richard Rogers) Bowker

Afterwards add salt, cayenne, pounded mace, and powdered cloves to your taste; and to every quart of tomatas allow a half a pint of cider vinegar.
— from Miss Leslie's Lady's New Receipt-Book, 3rd ed. A Useful Guide for Large or Small Families, Containing Directions for Cooking, Preserving, Pickling... by Eliza Leslie

With these aspects the school cannot properly meddle.
— from Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society by Havelock Ellis

The attendant I had, who had been so thoughtfully provided for me by Mr. Matanovich, professed to speak Italian, and he did in fact know a few Italian words, but in his general conversation 209 with me, as was subsequently discovered and explained to me by Pero Pejovich, the language in which he spoke consisted pretty much of the following happy mixture: six-tenths of Montenegrin, three-tenths of Albanian and Turkish, with one-tenth Italian!
— from Rambles in Istria, Dalmatia and Montenegro by R. H. R.

My troops will behave there with perfect order and discipline, but I am obliged to take precautions so as not to fall again into the position in which the Saxon Court placed me during the years 1744 and 1745....
— from Frederick the Great and the Rise of Prussia by William Fiddian Reddaway

"Mr. President," he cried, passionately, "I know this is not the time or place for a discussion like this, but ask that senatorial courtesy permit me to ask"—then
— from A Gentleman from Mississippi by Frederick R. Toombs