A man approaches them and calls into their ears, “ Pare , 2 a hundred to ten on the white!” Tarsilo stares at him in a foolish way and responds to Bruno’s nudge with a grunt.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

The steam used to extract the air is condensed in the augmentor condenser by cold water, and the interior of the augmentor condenser is connected to the inlet of an ordinary 3-throw pump.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

Let me tell him, gentlemen, that any gestures of dissent or disapprobation in which he may indulge in this court will not go down with you; that you will know how to value and how to appreciate them; and let me tell him further, as my Lord will tell you, gentlemen, that a counsel, in the discharge of his duty to his client, is neither to be intimidated nor bullied, nor put down; and that any attempt to do either the one or the other, or the first, or the last, will recoil on the head of the attempter, be he plaintiff or be he defendant, be his name Pickwick, or Noakes, or Stoakes, or Stiles, or Brown, or Thompson.’
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

SACERDOTALIST, n. One who holds the belief that a clergyman is a priest.
— from The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce

‘Tis the first lesson the Mexicans teach their children; so soon as ever they are born they thus salute them: “Thou art come into the world, child, to endure: endure, suffer, and say nothing.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Montanus de immortalitate Animae : Lelius Vincentius of the same subject: Thomas Giaminus, and Franciscus Collius de Paganorum animabus post mortem , a famous doctor of the Ambrosian College in Milan.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

This thought also comes into the mind of the man who gazes at this picture.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

What I was thinking of, my dear,' to Mrs Wilfer already seated in a corner with folded gloves, 'was, that as we have let our first floor so well, and as we have now no place in which you could teach pupils even if pupils—' 'The milkman said he knew of two young ladies of the highest respectability who were in search of a suitable establishment, and he took a card,' interposed Mrs Wilfer, with severe monotony, as if she were reading an Act of Parliament aloud.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

It is estimated that the fifty-odd chain store organizations in the United States distribute through their 30,000 stores 270,000,000 pounds of coffee a year, or about twenty percent of the total amount consumed in the United States.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

[ Listen ] It is possible to lend four distinct timbres to a chord in widely-divided four-part harmony, though such a chord will possess no uniformity in colour; but the higher the registers of the different instruments are placed, the less perceptible becomes the space which separates them: Fairly good Better Still better [ Listen ]
— from Principles of Orchestration, with Musical Examples Drawn from His Own Works by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov

Anne Stewart was helping her brother Paul through a college in Chicago, and during her visit to him, at the end of his first year, she met his friends—John Brewster who was Polly's older brother; Tom Latimer a promising young engineer from New York; and Pete Maynard who was a brother to Eleanor and Barbara.
— from Polly and Eleanor by Lillian Elizabeth Roy

She had some cousins who were on terms of friendly, though infrequent, correspondence with her, but as they lived permanently in Ceylon, a locality about which she knew little, beyond the assurance contained in the missionary hymn that the human element there was vile, they were not of much immediate use to her.
— from The Toys of Peace, and Other Papers by Saki

"I don't defend it," he replied; "it's my way; it may be a selfish prudence, for what I know; but I am sure that, did I give my heart to any creature, I should be withdrawing it from God.
— from Loss and Gain: The Story of a Convert by John Henry Newman

Through a chink in the door, he threw a last look upon his family, and clasping his hands, he uttered, in a low, heart-rending voice, while tears flowed down his haggard cheeks: "Farewell, my dear children—my poor wife!
— from Mysteries of Paris — Volume 02 by Eugène Sue

Have you not failed in one or two of your efforts?" Millicent's voice was politely indifferent, but a certain keenness in her eyes, which did not escape Geoffrey's notice, betrayed more than a casual interest.
— from Thurston of Orchard Valley by Harold Bindloss

But there are crises in a nation’s life in which God makes terrible examples, to put before the most stupid and sensual the choice of Hercules, the upward road of life, the downward one which leads to the pit.
— from Sir Walter Raleigh and His Time by Charles Kingsley

90 Turks and Caicos Islands 23.51 2003 est.
— from The 2003 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

By adopting the peculiar phraseology "upon this rock" in the place of "upon thee," Christ avoids referring to the individual Peter, to the person known as Peter, and refers rather to a characteristic in him, namely, his firmness and boldness in confessing Christ.
— from Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation by W. H. T. (William Herman Theodore) Dau

Prissie took a candle into the garden last thing before bed-time, to observe if the lawn showed earthworms; the finding of black slugs was considered to be rather fatal, and the hooting of owls a decidedly bad omen.
— from The Princess of the School by Angela Brazil

So then they are to apply themselves to the "calling wherewith they are called," in a spirit of "fear and trembling."
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Philippians by Robert Rainy