This preparation consists of gelatine-solution suitably prepared, and represents a colorless, or at the utmost slightly opalescent, product just sufficiently concentrated to remain liquid.
— from Glue, Gelatine, Animal Charcoal, Phosphorous, Cements, Pastes and Mucilages by F. (Ferdinand) Dawidowsky

Baron Hirsch's gift in favor of, declined, II 415 Asefat Hakamim , Hebrew magazine, II 223 Ash, Shalom , Yiddish novelist and playwright, III 162 Asher , rabbi in Cracow, I 104 f Ashkenasi, Solomon , Polish court physician, I 132 Asia, Central , steppes of, suggested for settlement of Russian Jews, II 285, 306 Asia Minor , emigration from, to Black Sea coast, I 13 f, 16 establishment of Jewish state in, advocated, I 412; see also Turkey Assimilation , see Polonization and Russification " Assortment " (classification), of Jews, decreed by Nicholas I., II 64 ff, 141 ff reflected in manifesto of Alexander II., II 157 Astrakhan (city), ancient Khazar capital situated near, I 19 Astrakhan (government), mosques destroyed in, I 254 opened to Jewish agriculturists, I 342 villages in, forbidden to Jews, I 343
— from History of the Jews in Russia and Poland, Volume 3 [of 3] From the Accession of Nicholas II until the Present Day by Simon Dubnow

But twice during the meal they stopped and plunged in the brook and took other long drinks; and at the end Old Blacky lay down in a shallow place and rolled, and came out looking like a drowned rat.
— from The Voyage of the Rattletrap by Hayden Carruth

Constans received them graciously, acknowledged the privileges of the Roman Church, and sent by them to St. Peter at Rome a copy of the gospels bound in golden covers and studded with diamonds.
— from Peter's Rock in Mohammed's Flood, from St. Gregory the Great to St. Leo III by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies

The word pilche is a corruption of the Latin pelliceus , or the Saxon pylce , and represented a coat of fur worn during cold weather.
— from Chats on Costume by G. Woolliscroft (George Woolliscroft) Rhead

(A L A Bkl) + A L A Bkl 14:83 D ‘17 Reviewed by Kenyon Cox * Nation 105:574 N 22 ‘17 2200w “Much of the text is touched by the generous but blighting spirit of special pleading and resentment against criticism of Rodin, but biographical information is given of the kind that alone is important in the case of an artist; and the quotations from the note-books have the great value of original and direct expressions upon a subject thoroughly known and deeply felt.”
— from The Book Review Digest, Volume 13, 1917 Thirteenth Annual Cumulation Reviews of 1917 Books by Various

If the United States give shelter and protection to those whom the policy of England annually casts upon their shores,—if, by the benign influences of their government and institutions, and by the happy condition of the country, those emigrants become raised from poverty to comfort, finding it easy even to become landholders, and being allowed to partake in the enjoyment of all civil rights,—if all this may be done, (and all this is done, under the countenance and encouragement of England herself,) is it not high time that, yielding that which had its origin in feudal ideas as inconsistent with the present state of society, and especially with the intercourse and relations subsisting between the Old World and the New, England should at length formally disclaim all right to the services of such persons, and renounce all control over their conduct?
— from The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style by Edwin Percy Whipple