Another was that of putting every part of the land to that use in which it would best serve the public.
— from Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt
“He did have sense enough to git rid o’ the car, but ye shouldn’t have left it so close to our place,” Ezekiel pointed out.
— from Swamp Island by Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) Wirt
Make a dressing such as was directed yesterday for your cresses, with the addition of the yolks of two hard-boiled eggs, powdered , and worked in with the oil, pepper, etc. Pour over the tomatoes, and set upon ice for an hour.
— from The Dinner Year-Book by Marion Harland
In addition 48 goats were taken away and 225 fowls; several houses were burned, and a quantity of their owners’ property either pillaged or destroyed.
— from Correspondence and Report from His Majesty's Consul at Boma Respecting the Administration of the Independent State of the Congo [and Further Correspondence] by Roger Casement
For the sake of promoting discord, and through discord their own private ends, part of the barons gave their support to Matilda, while the rest refused, as they said, to "hold their estates under a distaff."
— from The Leading Facts of English History by D. H. (David Henry) Montgomery
Doctor Barnes felt reasonably sure that the attack, if any, would come through the valley at the lower dam, for that would be the only practical entry point of the marauders marooned somewhere back in the hills.
— from The Sagebrusher: A Story of the West by Emerson Hough
Sensation and perception are by the means of nerves and a common sensorium ; the respiration of air is evident, being received and expelled by a particular [Pg 2] apparatus; nutrition is effected through a stomach and intestines ; the analogue of the blood prepared by these organs pervades every part of the body, and from it are secreted various peculiar substances; generation takes place, and an intercourse between the sexes, by means of appropriate organs ; and lastly, motion is the result of the action of muscles .
— from An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. 4 or Elements of the Natural History of the Insects by William Kirby
To Take out Paint: —Equal parts of ammonia and turpentine will take paint out of clothing, no matter how dry or hard it may be.
— from The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) Cooking, Toilet and Household Recipes, Menus, Dinner-Giving, Table Etiquette, Care of the Sick, Health Suggestions, Facts Worth Knowing, Etc., Etc. The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home by Hugo Ziemann
In times of prosperity, each producing organization expands to realize more fully the economies of large scale production.
— from The Unpopular Review Vol. I January-June 1914 by Various
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