To obtain the protein nitrogen, subtract from the total nitrogen the nitrogen due to caffein, obtained by direct determination on the separated caffein or by calculation (caffein divided by 3.464 gives nitrogen).
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

While he was looking at the album and standing before the glass, at that moment, in the kitchen and in the passage near, Samoylenko, without his coat and waistcoat, with his neck bare, excited and bathed in perspiration, was bustling about the tables, mixing the salad, or making some sauce, or preparing meat, cucumbers, and onion for the cold soup, while he glared fiercely at the orderly who was helping him, and brandished first a knife and then a spoon at him.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

But Tennyson's real master was Theocritus, whose influence pervades these poems not so much directly in definite imitation as indirectly in colour and tone.
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

712.—The Japanese archipelago inhabited before the Christian era.—Faith, worship and ritual are previous to written espression.—The Kojiki, Many[=o]shu and Norito.—Tendency of the pupil nations surrounding China to antedate their civilization.—Origin of the Japanese people and their religion.—Three distinct lines of tradition from Tsukushi, Idzumo and Yamato.—War of the invaders against the aborigines—Mikadoism is the heart of Shint[=o].—Illustrations from the liturgies.—Phallicism among the aborigines and common people.—The mind or mental climate of the primæval man.—Representation of male gods by emblems.—Objects of worship and ex-voto .—Ideas of creation.—The fire-myth, Prometheus.—Comparison of Greek and Japanese mythology.—Ritual for the quieting of the fire-god.—The fire-drill.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

And yet we often put questions to people, not so much because we want an answer, as to elicit from them conversation and friendly feeling, and from a wish to fit them for company, as Socrates drew out Theætetus and Charmides.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

2 [A] play ball with the politicians, not stick to one or the other but going along with whoever is in power.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

When they were come near the place, “Now,” said the monk, “go thou to the tomb, and lift it up.”
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

With the exception of the Poles, nationalistic sentiment may be said hardly to have existed fifty years ago.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

In the morning, Emily found Madame Montoni nearly in the same condition, as on the preceding night; she had slept little, and that little had not refreshed her; she smiled on her niece, and seemed cheered by her presence, but spoke only a few words, and never named Montoni, who, however, soon after, entered the room.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

Slowly she returned down the via dolorosa of the terrace-path, the walk where she and Allan had so often and so gaily trodden; the path now so barren, so hateful, so solitary.
— from Darkness and Dawn by George Allan England

The following is a specimen stanza from the poem:— "Now stole upon the time the dead of night, ( a ) When heavy sleep had closed up mortal eyes.
— from An Introduction to Shakespeare by H. N. (Henry Noble) MacCracken

In response to the summons of the preceding night, Stuart had come back from the direction of Ely's Ford, at a swift gallop, burning with ardor at the thought of leading Jackson's great corps into battle.
— from A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee by John Esten Cooke

At the pipal Nana Sahib reined in the bays sharply, saying, "Hello, General, wanted to see you for a minute—called at the bungalow, and your servant said you had gone down this way.
— from Caste by William Alexander Fraser

The internal diseases are those depending upon conditions of soil, climate, cultivation, etc., and may be neglected in our discussion, as they produce no special disease of the body, only impairing the nutritive value of the grain.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883 by Various

On the 23d of the preceding November, St. Helens had scattered its ashes, like a white fall of snow, over the Dalles of the Columbia, 50 miles distant.
— from The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources by John Charles Frémont

And yet, if you had a discriminating ear, there were in it the elements of a concord such as these plains never saw nor heard.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

Thoughts perpetually change and cannot be grasped because they possess no self-nature.
— from The Zen Experience by Thomas Hoover

I will go with you wherever you will,—to confession, to sacrament, to prayers, never so often; never will I rebel against your word; if you decree, I will bend my neck to king or priest; I will reconcile me with anybody or anything only for your sweet sake; you shall lead me all my life; and when we die, I ask only that you may lead me to our Mother's throne in heaven, and pray her to tolerate me for your sake.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various