He then anoints all the stones with ghī, which is contained in a green bamboo measure.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

“Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me.
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

“Why have not private persons the right to do so?” “Oh, my theory’s this: war is on one side such a beastly, cruel, and awful thing, that no one man, not to speak of a Christian, can individually take upon himself the responsibility of beginning wars; that can only be done by a government, which is called upon to do this, and is driven inevitably into war.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

If you love Latin, I will repeat you some fine lines out of Horace, which would inspire courage into a coward.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Philip used to come to Fallkill often while he was in college.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

‘It would serve you right, Annabella,’ said I, at length, ‘if Lord Lowborough were to return to his old habits, which had so nearly effected his ruin, and which it cost him such an effort to break: you would then see cause to repent such conduct as this.’
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

She said no one could be kinder or more loving than her husband, and she had never been unfaithful to him but with me, whom, as her own formation, she must always love, and would never refuse me anything I asked when it could be safely done.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

One was a millionaire, Francisco Roxas, who had lost his mind, and believing that he was in church, calmly spread his handkerchief on the ground and knelt upon it as had been his custom in childhood.
— from Lineage, Life and Labors of José Rizal, Philippine Patriot by Austin Craig

"I remained in that Hampstead house, Mr. Brand-Fane, to search and see what I could find in order to set things square.
— from The White Room by Fergus Hume

No one, indeed, who is capable of generous emotions can fail to be uplifted by the story of the Varyag's passage to death.
— from The Japan-Russia War: An Illustrated History of the War in the Far East by Sydney Tyler

The bandolier gripped him tighter; he wished to raise his hands to his throat like a man who is choking.
— from The Open Boat and Other Stories by Stephen Crane

But ingratitude is a thing that has no excuse, true or false, upon which it can fix; and it is therefore the worst of vices, since it dries up the fountain of compassion, extinguishes the fire of love, closes the road to benefits, and causes vexation and repentance to spring up in the hearts of the ungrateful.
— from Stories from the Pentamerone by Giambattista Basile

The camp was in chaos immediately.
— from The Fire People by Ray Cummings

On board there was a tin box with its cover broken containing navigation books, charts, etc., also Captain Sicard's instructions to Lieutenant Talbot, with others, among which were Muir's and Andrews's discharge papers;
— from The Last Cruise of the Saginaw by George H. (George Henry) Read

And I do lay upon the upper ends of the pipes hereinbefore described and connect with them a tubular ring similar to that upon which the pipes stand, the two rings and the upright pipes forming together a vessel in which water has free communication by means of the bottom ring to stand at the same level in all the pipes, and the steam has free communication to pass from all the pipes into the upper ring; and I do, for the sake of obtaining great heat, place my system of dry pipes over the [Pg 376] fire, and within the circular row of upright pipes of the boiler hereinbefore described; and I form my dry pipes in pairs, each pair constituting the figure that is well understood by the term inverted syphon; and I unite several of these syphons together by short bent pipes at the top, so as to constitute one long zigzag pipe, through which the steam must successively pass down and up the alternate legs of each syphon with great velocity, necessary for the rapid absorption of heat in its passage from the boiler to the working cylinder of the engine, the working cock, valves, or slide of which being united by a pipe of communication with that leg which is last in the succession of syphons; and I unite the first in succession of these inverted syphons with the upper tubular ring of the boiler by means of a bent pipe, in which a throttle-valve or cock is placed in order to limit the supply of steam, that it may have space in the dry pipes and working cylinder to expand in proportion as it receives additional heat; and I fix a safety-valve in communication with the boiler, and another in communication with the dry pipes; and I place around outside the boiler, at a small distance from the upright pipes, two cylindrical casings, one within the other, and fill up the space between the two casings with sand, ashes, or other material which conducts heat but slowly; and I close up the upper end of the casings over the boiler and the dry pipes with a covering in the form of a dome, and out of this enclosure I make the flue to pass to and around the working cylinder of the engine, whence the flue carries the smoke and little remaining heat away in any convenient manner; and I make my boiler-pipes, rings, and casings by preference of iron or copper, and my dry pipes of copper or other strong metal not liable to rapid oxidation by heat when in contact with steam; and I supply my boiler with water by means of a forcing pump, so adjusted as to keep the water of the proper height.
— from Life of Richard Trevithick, with an Account of His Inventions. Volume 2 (of 2) by Francis Trevithick

The prettiest girl in Fontainebleau is willing to become my wife; I can marry her in less than three weeks if I see fit to hurry things a little.
— from The Man With The Broken Ear by Edmond About

Though he was in constant suffering, he seems really to have enjoyed this visit.
— from Pictures in Umbria by Katharine S. (Katharine Sarah) Macquoid