Hawkins died in 1877, and Mrs. Thornton, having purchased the Hawkins interest, ran the business as R.J. Thornton & Co. until her death in 1885.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

But if, while revolving, the axis inclines either to the right or left, forwards or backwards, then in no point of view can they be at rest.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

Sunday he had intended to devote to studying for the high school examination, but the pearl-diving article lured him away, and he spent the day in the white-hot fever of re-creating the beauty and romance that burned in him.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

The style of Quintilian is modelled on that of Cicero, whom he is never tired of praising, and is intended to be a return to the usages of the best period.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

But does the painter know the right form of the bit and reins?
— from The Republic by Plato

His hollow Pope's-Concordat , pretending to be a re-establishment of Catholicism, felt by himself to be the method of extirpating it, " la vaccine de la religion :" his ceremonial Coronations, consecrations by the old Italian Chimera in Notre-Dame,—"wanting nothing to complete the pomp of it," as Augereau said, "nothing but the half-million of men who had died to put an end to all that"!
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

I do not believe that God has revealed Himself to one portion of mankind alone and that during only the last 1,900 years of the world's history; I do not accept the doctrine that all the millions of human beings who have never heard of Christ are plunged in spiritual darkness; I believe that behind all religions founded on a law of righteousness there lies a divine and central truth, that Ikhnaton, Moses and Isaiah, Socrates and Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Buddha, Zoroaster, and Mohammed were all teachers who interpreted to men the aspect of the divine as it had been vouchsafed to them and which in harmony with the supreme revelation given to man by Jesus Christ.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

And so there began to be a real sympathy between the world within and the world without.
— from Timaeus by Plato

The bells are ringing for the mass.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Captain Gwatkins , the Captain of the Amy , was obliged to stand off, for fear of running his own Ship ashore; but at the same Time thought fit for the publick Good, to destroy the Enemy; and thereupon went into the Boat, and rowed towards the Sloop, in order to set her on Fire; but before he reached the Vessel, a fatal Shot from Lowther ’s Company ashore, put an End to their Design and Captain Gwatkin ’s Life.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

The Overland girls had found their blankets, and, rolled tightly in them, lay sound asleep on the bare ground.
— from Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders in the Great North Woods by Josephine Chase

It was like a bit of a gipsy encampment, and the woman seemed to be a real woman, not a fairy—which was the case, as Amelia afterwards found.
— from The Brownies and Other Tales by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing

Hinug na ang mga ságing, The bananas are ripe.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The Chief Butlership is traced by authentic records into the hands of William de Albini, who came to England with William the Conqueror, and has been exercised by some of the noblest families in the country since.
— from Coronation Anecdotes by Giles Gossip

The man who has been serving me seems to be a rank amateur, and twice he was almost insolent.
— from The Brand of Silence A Detective Story by Harrington Strong

—There should always be reading during the common meal, but it shall not be left to chance, so that anyone may take up the book and read.
— from A Source Book for Mediæval History Selected Documents illustrating the History of Europe in the Middle Age by Oliver J. (Oliver Joseph) Thatcher

As for Miss Poke, it will be a hard case; for she is altogether past expecting another consort, and she must be satisfied to be a relic the rest of her days.”
— from The Monikins by James Fenimore Cooper