if the design is to make bread or cakes of these roots they undergo a second process of baking being previously pounded after the fist baking between two stones untill they are reduced to the consistency of dough and then rolled in grass in cakes of eight or ten lbs are returned to the sweat intermixed with fresh roots in order that the steam may get freely to these loaves of bread.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

if the design is to make bread or cakes of those roots they undergo a Second preperation of baking being previously pounded after the first baking between two Stones untill they are reduced to the consistancy of dough and then rolled in grass in cakes of 8 or 10 pounds, are returned to the Sweat intermixes with fresh roots in order that the steam may get freely to those loaves of bread.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Looking up the river, they could see Otter start up, tense and rigid, from out of the shallows where he crouched in dumb patience, and could hear his amazed and joyous bark as he bounded up through the osiers on to the path.
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

The 3rd, 4th, 6th, 7th, and 10th they all did seriously declare, and lay much stress upon them as rules fit to be observed indeed, and especially the last, to lie with our heads where our heels do, or at least to make the bed high at feet and low at head.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Many of her thoughts were perfect syllogisms; unluckily they always remained thoughts.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

Shaklee, A. O. , and Meltzer, S. J. : (2) The Influence of Shaking upon Trypsin and Rennin, etc., Proceed.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

On the coast of Epirus is the fortress of Chimæra 2098 , situate upon the Acroceraunian range, and below it the spring known as the Royal Waters 2099 ; then the towns of 273 Mæandria, and Cestria 2100 , the Thyamis 2101 , a river of Thesprotia, the colony of Buthrotum 2102 , and the Ambracian Gulf 2103 , so famed in history; which, with an inlet only half a mile in width, receives a vast body of water from the sea, being thirty-seven miles in length, and fifteen in width.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

But whatever are the causes of this neurosis, it is surely undesirable that a race which exhibits it should be allowed to control the destinies of the British Empire or indeed of any country.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

This was the value which was set upon the ancient race of contemplative natures —despised as they were in just the same degree as they were not dreaded!
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Nothing can be more strictly useful to all real students than the absolute certainty of obtaining at once any book that can be found in the catalogue.
— from Remarks on the practice and policy of lending Bodleian printed books and manuscripts by Henry W. (Henry William) Chandler

"My wife is not strong, but she should lie out on the open moor sooner than sleep under that accursed roof of yours."
— from Barren Honour: A Novel by George A. (George Alfred) Lawrence

Half an hour afterward, Dionysius, who had begged to be excused for that night from entering upon the second of the two doctrines which he had been challenged to sustain, was walking part of the way with Paulus toward the Inn of the Hundredth Milestone, along the fretwork of light which was shed upon the Appian Road by the moon and stars through the leaves of the chestnut-trees.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 11, April, 1870 to September, 1870 by Various

"There won't be any footlights," he said; "and you're mistaken if you think she's up to any rough work like climbing over them, any way.
— from The Black Pearl by Woodrow, Wilson, Mrs.

So we must stay until they are refreshed.
— from Clementina by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason

"Is that smoke up there?" asked Red.
— from Hopalong Cassidy by Clarence Edward Mulford

“Bert and I have a pass that will see us through all right; but what are you going to do?
— from Don Gordon's Shooting-Box by Harry Castlemon

The stalk by which the nest is suspended (usually to a root) in the case of germanica passes freely through a hole in the external envelope, but vulgaris unites this external wall solidly to the stalk.
— from Problems of Genetics by William Bateson