Add to these an approaching sunset of unusual splendor, a broad tumble of clouds, with much golden haze and profusion of beaming shaft and dazzle.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

They also speak of the world in a threefold sense; at one time meaning God himself, whom they call a being of a certain quality, having for his peculiar manifestation universal substance, a being imperishable, and who never had any generation, being the maker of the arrangement and order that we see; and who, after certain periods of time, absorbs all substance in himself, and then re-produces it from himself.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

I am aware that a secret tendency to diminish the judicial power exists in the United States, and by most of the constitutions of the several States the Government can, upon the demand of the two houses of the legislature, remove the judges from their station.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Chapter XXX DEVELOPMENT OF THE GREEN AND ROASTED COFFEE BUSINESS IN THE UNITED STATES A brief history of the growth of coffee trading—Notable firms and personalities that have played important parts in green coffee in the principal coffee centers—Green coffee trade organizations—Growth of the wholesale coffee-roasting trade, and names of those who have made history in it—The National Coffee Roasters Association—Statistics of distribution of coffee-roasting establishments in the United States C offee trading in the American colonies probably had its beginnings about the middle of the seventeenth century.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

I began to read the New Testament; I read that unspeakably sublime and blessed word (St. John i. 6-14), 'In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God, and the Word was made flesh.'
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

Now add one peeled and cut up squash, a bouquet garni and two quarts of stock, and boil till well done.
— from The Hotel St. Francis Cook Book by Victor Hirtzler

In the green sea-weeds reproduction is effected by simple cell division in the unicellular species, and by spores resulting from the union of the contents of two cells in the others.
— from Sea-Weeds, Shells and Fossils by B. B. (Bernard Bolingbroke) Woodward

Provided , That nothing in this act contained, shall be construed to extend to those who may incline to remove from any of the United States and become citizens of this, if within sixty days after such removal, he or she shall take the following oath before some justice of the peace of this commonwealth: ' I, A.B., do swear, that my removal into the state of Virginia, was with no intent of evading the laws for preventing the further importation of slaves, nor have I brought with me any slaves, with an intention of selling them, nor have any of the slaves which I have brought with me, been imported from Africa, or any of the West India islands, since the first day of November ,'" 1778, etc.
— from The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America 1638-1870 by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

McKinley, President of the United States, at Buffalo, N. Y., this afternoon; and, whereas, we rejoice to learn by the latest telegram that his physicians express the firm belief he will survive the wounds inflicted, therefore— Resolved, by the Mayor and Common Council of the city of Fredericksburg, Virginia, that we condemn, in the strongest language we can command, this dastardly and wicked act, and call upon the authorities to punish the would-be assassin to the full extent of the law.
— from The History of the City of Fredericksburg, Virginia by S. J. (Silvanus Jackson) Quinn

60 Ice Mountain on Prospect Point 64 Cave of the Winds in Winter 66 "Maid of the Mist" under Steel Arch Bridge 70 Beacon on Old Breakwater at Buffalo 72 Winter Scene in Prospect Park 74 Bath Island, American Rapids, in 1879 From New York Commissioners' Report.
— from The Niagara River by Archer Butler Hulbert

Martineau , (Harriet,) a woman who has become somewhat celebrated by her book of travels in the United States, and by other works.
— from A Treatise on Domestic Economy; For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School by Catharine Esther Beecher

“That’s the best thing we can do, Mr Easy; but let us send a boat on board of them, and take out all the men that can possibly be spared, that there may be no excuse for impressing them.”
— from Mr. Midshipman Easy by Frederick Marryat

Just before, he had received a letter, which, taken in connection with this of the Princesse des Ursins, struck a blow at her power of the most decisive kind.
— from Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete by Various

To illustrate this, let us suppose a bladder containing a little syrup, and placed in a vessel of water, and we will have the conditions necessary for endosmose: the syrup and water will both pass through the bladder in opposite directions, but a greater quantity of water will pass into the syrup, than of the latter into the water.
— from The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 19, November 7, 1840 by Various