Sir James Murray draws attention to the existence of two European types, one like the French café , Italian caffè , the other like the English coffee , Dutch koffie .
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Their cell was still in semi-darkness, the only light that entered coming from a grating high up at the summit of the arched stone roof.
— from Edgar the Ready: A Tale of the Third Edward's Reign by W. P. Shervill

The History of Old Testament Criticism By Archibald Duff Professor of Hebrew and Old Testament Theology in the United College, Bradford The author sets forth the critical views of the Hebrews concerning their own literature, the early Christian treatment of the Old Testament, criticism by the Jewish rabbis, and criticism from Spinoza to Astruc, and from Astruc until the present.
— from History of Chemistry, Volume 2 (of 2) From 1850 to 1910 by T. E. (Thomas Edward) Thorpe

They were advancing in triangular order, like the English column at the battle of Fontenoy.
— from The Heavenly Father: Lectures on Modern Atheism by Ernest Naville

I doubt not that the writers were eminent men in their own line; that each could triumphantly prove, to his own satisfaction, the unsoundness of what the others had advanced; and that all would unite in declaring that the theories of a year ago were entirely exploded by the latest German treatise; but they were not able to set forth these thoughts, however consoling in themselves, in anything resembling the language of educated society.
— from The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson) by Stuart Dodgson Collingwood

That this little shaft of the tender passion contained some truly original lines the enlightened cannot doubt; and I think I may assert without fear of contradiction that Betty did in these lines, notwithstanding they evinced a sovereign contempt for orthography and versification, discover a deep knowledge of diplomacy.
— from The Adventures of My Cousin Smooth by Timothy Templeton

Moreover, comparative research has for some time past studied the märchen with the primary purpose of determining to what localities the materials of the märchen and the fable have spread, and thus, in turn, of learning the early cultural relations of peoples.
— from Elements of Folk Psychology Outline of a Psychological History of the Development of Mankind by Wilhelm Max Wundt

The deferential tone belonged to the mentor of his youth, yet the speech itself seemed to owe little to Eton College.
— from The Sailor by J. C. (John Collis) Snaith