No. 1 size; rear view, showing outer casing rolled back from the drum.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Then said Alfifa, "People buried in sand rot very slowly, and it would not have been so if he had been buried in earth."
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

But at no other time is Stepan Stepanitch so reasonable, virtuous, stern or just as at dinner, when all his household are sitting about him.
— from The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

fort, e , vigoureux, solide; rude; violent; sonore; adv. , beaucoup, très.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

( b. ) faciundum aliquid, quod illōrum magis quam suā rētulisse vidērētur , S. I. 111, 1, that he must do something which should seem more for the other side’s good than his own .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

Their frequent Coincidence with Faults. — Proofs that they originated in Fissures in solid Rock. — Veins shifting other Veins. —
— from The Student's Elements of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

At the age of 7 a man pursued her with attentions and attempted to take liberties, but she rejected his advances in terror; four years later another man attempted to assault her, but she resisted vigorously, struck him, and escaped by running.
— from Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women by Havelock Ellis

THE ORACLE THE CAST-IRON CANVASSER THE MERINO SHEEP THE BULLOCK WHITE-WHEN-HE'S-WANTED THE DOWNFALL OF MULLIGAN'S THE AMATEUR GARDENER THIRSTY ISLAND DAN FITZGERALD EXPLAINS THE CAT SITTING IN JUDGMENT THE DOG THE DOG—AS A SPORTSMAN CONCERNING A STEEPLECHASE RIDER VICTOR SECOND
— from Index for Works of Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson Hyperlinks to all Chapters of all Individual Ebooks by A. B. (Andrew Barton) Paterson

"You dear little soul!" said Robert very sincerely.
— from Six Girls and the Tea Room by Marion Ames Taggart

Shell red, ventricose, suborbicular, longitudinally ribbed: upper valve depressed in the middle; the lower with the back elevated.
— from The Naturalist's Repository, Volume 1 (of 5) or Monthly Miscellany of Exotic Natural History: etc. etc. by E. (Edward) Donovan