Supreme Usher de Breze does not give the highest satisfaction: we cannot but observe that in ushering Noblesse or Clergy into the anointed Presence, he liberally opens both his folding-doors; and on the other hand, for members of the Third Estate opens only one!
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

All this behaviour will be made possible by the dynamically updatable nature of cyberspace (in contrast to a library), and the fact that computer chips are still shrinking in size and in price.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

"Experiment to finish?" queried Olive, with an unconcealed note of contempt in her voice.
— from Swirling Waters by Max Rittenberg

Where there are an uneven number of covers it is better to place the plates at equal distances around the table, without regard to the place of the hostess being opposite to that of the host.
— from The Century Cook Book by Mary Ronald

He [96] found that the dogs kept in the darkness had less than the usual number of cells in the seeing areas, and the cells were smaller, while the dogs which had been trained to discriminate between tints and shades of color many times a day had a far greater number of larger and more complex brain-cells in the seeing areas than any dog of that age and species ever had before.
— from What a Young Woman Ought to Know by Mary Wood-Allen

265.—Lap winding for bipolar machine, with uneven number of coils; in this case the rear connectors may be made directly across a diameter as shown.
— from Hawkins Electrical Guide v. 02 (of 10) Questions, Answers, & Illustrations, A progressive course of study for engineers, electricians, students and those desiring to acquire a working knowledge of electricity and its applications by N. (Nehemiah) Hawkins