The home of the famous Mocha coffee still produces considerable quantities of that variety, although the output, comparatively speaking, is not large.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

At last the Owl could stand it no longer, but determined to rid herself of the pest by means of a trick.
— from Aesop's Fables; a new translation by Aesop

Think what it is to a boy, to grow up to manhood in the [Pg 149] belief that without any merit or any exertion of his own, though he may be the most frivolous and empty or the most ignorant and stolid of mankind, by the mere fact of being born a male he is by right the superior of all and every one of an entire half of the human race: including probably some whose real superiority to himself he has daily or hourly occasion to feel; but even if in his whole conduct he habitually follows a woman's guidance, still, if he is a fool, she thinks that of course she is not, and cannot be, equal in ability and judgment to himself; and if he is not a fool, he does worse—he sees that she is superior to him, and believes that, notwithstanding her superiority, he is entitled to command and she is bound to obey.
— from The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill

Time, and our proximity to other cancelled symbols is no guarantee of interior understanding.
— from Aliens by William McFee

And among ourselves the ordinary citizen stands in no need of studying the laws under which he lives, custom being generally the safe guiding star of his conduct.
— from The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck

Merritt with the other companies, six in number, is wintering at Fort Russell, on the line of the Union Pacific.
— from Campaigning with Crook, and Stories of Army Life by Charles King

That manufacturing itself must be done by division of labour is another: the country or area that is fitted to supply textiles or cream separators is not necessarily fitted to supply steel rails: yet until the latter are supplied the former cannot be obtained.
— from The Fruits of Victory A Sequel to The Great Illusion by Norman Angell

Its founder, as a philosophy, Herbert of Cherbury, had created the matrix in which was formed the Quaker religion of the "inner light," by which Paine's childhood was nurtured; its founder as a scientific theory of creation, Sir Isaac Newton, had determined the matrix in which all unorthodox systems should originate.
— from The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. 2. (of 2) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England by Moncure Daniel Conway

The oldest commercial station in North Dakota, it began to function in May 1922, operating on 100 watts.
— from North Dakota: A Guide to the Northern Prairie State by Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of North Dakota

I was nearly captured more than once, but several times brought back information that was of use to our Commander, so I never received the reprimands that I well deserved.
— from Master Simon's Garden: A Story by Cornelia Meigs