Receiving and Measuring the Ripe Berries from the Pickers, Mexico From the Sierra Luquillo range, which rises to a height of 1,500 feet, and from Yauco, Utuado, and Lares, come excellent coffees; and, on the whole, these are considered to be the best coffee regions of the island.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers
[1] This story has been transferred to Peter the Great, who is alleged to have exhibited the docility of his subjects in the same way to the King of Denmark, by ordering a Cossack to jump from the Round Tower at Copenhagen, on the summit of which they were standing.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa
"Well, sir, to a certain extent you are right.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne
But when the infantry met them, they abused them as cowards and traitors, and began to push them from their horses and deal them blows, and so Perseus, terrified at the disturbance, forsook the main road, and to avoid detection took off his purple robe and laid it before him, and carried his crown in his hand;
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch
A passage in the address of the former play to the reader, in which Jonson refers to a collaboration in an earlier version, has led to the surmise that Shakespeare may have been that "worthier pen."
— from Epicoene; Or, The Silent Woman by Ben Jonson
THE GILDED AGE A Tale of Today By Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner 1873 Part 1. CONTENTS CHAPTER I. Squire Hawkins and His Tennessee Land—He Decides to Remove to Missouri CHAPTER II.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner
His mind emptied of theory and courage, lapsed back into a listless peace.
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Your nice beef-tea and cheery ways are worth oceans of tears and cart-loads of tracts."
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott
Messer Antonio d'Orso, a learned and worthy prelate, being Bishop of Florence, there came thither a Catalan gentleman, called Messer Dego della Ratta, marshal for King Robert, who, being a man of a very fine person and a great amorist, took a liking to one among other Florentine ladies, a very fair lady and granddaughter to a brother of the said bishop, and hearing that her husband, albeit a man of good family, was very sordid and miserly, agreed with him to give him five hundred gold florins, so he would suffer him lie a night with his wife.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio
Sometimes his daughter heard him denounced for having neglected to forward Mrs. Bart's remittances; but for the most part he was never mentioned or thought of till his patient stooping figure presented itself on the New York dock as a buffer between the magnitude of his wife's luggage and the restrictions of the American custom-house.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
Quicker than thought the affrighted creature whipped round and followed his mother and sister, who were already in full retreat.
— from The Story of a Hare by J. C. (John Coulson) Tregarthen
We had a great open wilderness in front of us; we must 256 make our way from one point of support to another, and explore the routes in advance, lest we might come to a catastrophe.
— from Trans-Himalaya: Discoveries and Adventurers in Tibet. Vol. 2 (of 2) by Sven Anders Hedin
The topics of the several papers and addresses, though covering a large range of thought all converged to the same main point, and were especially pertinent to the hour.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 12, December, 1889 by Various
They alone can I trust to the death."
— from Astounding Stories, March, 1931 by Various
Not, as one would suppose, an acquittal, but, in nine cases out of ten, a conviction in a lower degree.
— from Courts and Criminals by Arthur Cheney Train
As the smoke-rack veers to seaward, From "the ancient clay", With its moral drifting leeward, Ends the wanderer's lay.
— from Poems by Adam Lindsay Gordon by Adam Lindsay Gordon
In this latter church the nave is also divided by three arches carried on circular columns which diminish in diameter as they rise, but not to the extent as shown in Marryat’s work [92] (Woodcut No. 788 ).
— from A History of Architecture in All Countries, Volume 2, 3rd ed. From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by James Fergusson
65 The English in the Ashantee war noticed it on the bronzes they took at Coomassie on the coast of Guinea, and it has also been found on objects discovered in the English county of Norfolk.
— from Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples by Nadaillac, Jean-François-Albert du Pouget, marquis de
Our English author says, on page 19, in reference to the conduct of the company: “They are convictions which have strengthened and deepened at every step of the inquiry; convictions that the Hudson’s Bay Company has entailed misery and destruction upon thousands throughout the country which is withering under its curse; that it has cramped and crippled the energies and enterprise of England, which might have found occupation in the directions from which they [Pg 33] are now excluded; that it has stopped the extension of civilization, and has excluded the light of religious truth ; that it has alienated the hearts of all under its oppression, and made them hostile to their country; above all, that the whole and entire fabric is built upon utterly false and fictitious grounds; that it has not one shadow of reality in law or in justice; that there is not the smallest legal authority for any one of the rights which this corporation claims.
— from A History of Oregon, 1792-1849 Drawn From Personal Observation and Authentic Information by W. H. (William Henry) Gray
Next there was the garden, reduced to a couple of plum-trees and a clump of lilac-bushes, the leaves of which had now sprouted.
— from The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 4 by Émile Zola
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