Jardin concludes that whatever there may be in these various etymologies, it remains a fact that the word coffee comes from an Arabian word, whether it be kahua , kahoueh , kaffa or kahwa , and that the peoples who have adopted the drink have all modified the Arabian word to suit their pronunciation.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

It has been pointed out also, that these two were closely connected together, and had their root in the same fundamental error, the idea of matter as the abode of evil and thus antagonistic to God.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

40 Whilst Horatius was exclaiming in this manner, "and the decemvirs could not discover any limit either to their anger or forbearance, nor could they see to what the thing would come, Caius Claudius, who was uncle to Appius the decemvir, delivered an address more like entreaties than reproach, beseeching him by the shade of his own brother and of his father, that he would hold in recollection the civil society in which he had been born rather than the confederacy nefariously entered into with his colleagues; that he besought this much more on Appius's own account, than for the sake of the commonwealth.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

The worthy couple cheated and robbed us like a Swiss innkeeper, and made us feel, by the sum we had to pay, the splendors of their hospitality.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

In my opinion it is repugnant to the delicacy, and still more to the hypocrisy of tame domestic animals (that is, modern men; that is, ourselves), to realise with all their energy the extent to which cruelty constituted the great joy and delight of ancient man, was an ingredient which seasoned nearly all his pleasures, and conversely the extent of the naïveté and innocence with which he manifested his need for cruelty, when he actually made as a matter of principle "disinterested malice" (or, to use Spinoza's expression, the sympathia malevolens ) into a normal
— from The Genealogy of Morals The Complete Works, Volume Thirteen, edited by Dr. Oscar Levy. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

They were crowded close together on the other side around some furze bushes, and the first peculiarity observable was that, on the sudden appearance of Oak's head over the fence, they did not stir or run away.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

It seems that we shall buy such a number of vegetables that we cannot carry them.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

Summing up the results of the discussion to this point the report says: "It is found that the working children contribute to the ranks of delinquency a slightly larger number and a much larger proportion than do the non-workers, that this excess appears in offenses of every kind, whether trivial or serious, and among recidivists even more markedly than among first offenders."
— from Child Labor in City Streets by Edward Nicholas Clopper

But there was still another person to be appeased, before the peace of the whole company could be established.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

It was the first time that his mind had been brought sharply to the consideration of the questions in what mode “Internal Improvements,” as they were called, can be effected by the General Government, and consequently he began to perceive the dividing line between the Federal and the State powers.
— from Life of James Buchanan, Fifteenth President of the United States. v. 1 (of 2) by George Ticknor Curtis

The few courageous men who had ventured to come back were busy erecting temporary shelters for themselves before the winter cold came on, and had to let the harvest wait.
— from Korea's Fight for Freedom by Fred A. (Fred Arthur) McKenzie

It is only with the greatest difficulty that we can convince ourselves that our arm moves only when and not because we will.
— from Naturalism and Religion by Rudolf Otto

Again I warn you, as you must not pretend the interest of the end against a peremptory, absolute command of God, so must you not easily conclude a command to be absolute and peremptory to that which certainly contradicts the end; nor easily take that for a duty, which certainly is no means to that good which is the end of duty, or which is against it.
— from A Christian Directory, Part 3: Christian Ecclesiastics by Richard Baxter

In a moment I was sketching broadly the inhumanity of this thing we call Christian civilization, which, more grasping than the Inquisition, has overrun the world, tearing the lands from their owners, and, not content with this spoliation, demands of its victims that they shall give up the customs of many [Pg 62] centuries' evolution, and conform to habits, governments, and religions which their very instincts make impossible; and because they cannot change, but break out, these believers in the golden rule shoot them down.
— from The Story of an Untold Love by Paul Leicester Ford

Meanwhile Mrs. Ogden found the Whittlecup coach comfortable in a supreme degree.
— from Wenderholme: A Story of Lancashire and Yorkshire by Philip Gilbert Hamerton

[14] This Browne was in all probability the notorious Ned Browne of whom Robert Greene wrote in 1592, The Blacke Bookes Messenger , "Laying open the life and death of Ned Browne one of the worst cutpurses, crosbiters, and conycatchers that ever lived in England.
— from Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 by Arthur Acheson