[Pg 232] Kip's Bay was the large cove which then set in from the East River at about the foot of Thirty-fourth Street.
— from The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn Including a new and circumstantial account of the battle of Long island and the loss of New York, with a review of events to the close of the year by Henry Phelps Johnston

The person of one of them, Sordello, is familiar to every reader of the Purgatory .
— from Renaissance in Italy, Volume 4 (of 7) Italian Literature, Part 1 by John Addington Symonds

; stuck in fields to ensure rain or an abundant crop, ii. 46, 47, 48; stuck in flax-fields to make the flax grow tall, ii. 86; used in exorcism, iii. 109; fatigue transferred to, ix.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 12 of 12) by James George Frazer

Its source is familiar to every reader of English literature, and its method of construction and style of composition are those employed in the operas of the Meyerbeerian school.
— from Richard Wagner His Life and His Dramas A Biographical Study of the Man and an Explanation of His Work by W. J. (William James) Henderson

Another point to be noticed is that there is no saving in excavation by using a reinforced section instead of a gravity section, in fact the excavation runs slightly more for the reinforced section.
— from Concrete Construction: Methods and Costs by Halbert Powers Gillette

5713, which may have some interest for the English reader.
— from Studies in Judaism, First Series by S. (Solomon) Schechter

The flowers are a fine blue (a colour somewhat scarce in our gardens at that season), irregularly arranged on very stout stems; in form they exactly resemble a monk's hood, and the manner in which they are held from the stems further accords with that likeness.
— from Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. by J. G. (John George) Wood

Now the refractive index of Iceland spar is, for the extraordinary ray less, and for the ordinary greater, than for Canada balsam.
— from Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873 by John Tyndall

The term "Free Service" is familiar to every repairman, and it has been the cause of considerable discussion and dispute, since it is often very difficult to know where to draw the Tine between Free Service and Paid Service.
— from The Automobile Storage Battery: Its Care And Repair by Otto A. Witte