He already saw the "Egyptian province of Judea" under a Jewish Governor, with its own defense corps under Anglo-Egyptian officers.
— from The Jewish State by Theodor Herzl

When Annette returned, a few hours after, she told Emily, that the porter of the castle wished very much to speak with her, for that he had something of importance to say; her spirits had, however, of late been so subject to alarm, that any new circumstance excited it; and this message from the porter, when her first surprise was over, made her look round for some lurking danger, the more suspiciously, perhaps, because she had frequently remarked the unpleasant air and countenance of this man.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

And such are many—though I only meant her From whom I now deduce these moral lessons, On which the Muse has always sought to enter.
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

From thence to our office, where we met and did business, and so home and spent the evening looking upon the painters that are at work in my house.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The society, on this, resum'd the consideration of the letters that had been read to them; and the celebrated Dr. Watson drew up a summary account of them, and of all I had afterwards sent to England on the subject, which he accompanied with some praise of the writer.
— from Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

The commonplace nature of what they said produced in Ethan an illusion of long-established intimacy which no outburst of emotion could have given, and he set his imagination adrift on the fiction that they had always spent their evenings thus and would always go on doing so...
— from Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

They first brought him a stag to encounter, next a boar, and after that a bear, all which he slighted, and disdained to stir from his place; but when he saw a lion he then immediately roused himself, evidently manifesting that he declared that alone worthy to enter the lists with him.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Deprived of this advantage, however, Isabel’s visitors retained that of an extreme sweetness and shyness of demeanour, and of having, as she thought, eyes like the balanced basins, the circles of “ornamental water,” set, in parterres, among the geraniums.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

We have a soirée this evening, and have had two pleasant parties this week at the other houses.
— from Life in Mexico by Madame (Frances Erskine Inglis) Calderón de la Barca

Here is a truth that ought to be a constant source of humiliation and sorrow to every Christian.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Second Book of Samuel by William Garden Blaikie

The sun had no sooner set, and the breeze become more fresh, than the greater number of the inhabitants left their houses, and seated themselves either at their doors or by the side of the river, to enjoy the delicious coolness of the evening air; of course I followed their example, and it was near midnight before I retired to rest.
— from Travels in the Interior of Brazil Principally through the northern provinces, and the gold and diamond districts, during the years 1836-1841 by George Gardner

Hertz has also shown that electro-magnetic disturbances (transversal waves) are propagated in space with a determinate velocity akin to that of light, and in short the outcome of his investigations, as well as of those undertaken by others, has been a vindication of Clerk Maxwell’s splendid theory by which light is regarded as an electro-magnetic action.
— from Discoveries and Inventions of the Nineteenth Century by Robert Routledge

Have apple sauce to eat with them.
— from The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) Cooking, Toilet and Household Recipes, Menus, Dinner-Giving, Table Etiquette, Care of the Sick, Health Suggestions, Facts Worth Knowing, Etc., Etc. The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home by Hugo Ziemann

Inspired minds ordered by God, 225-u. Instinct of animals compared with the Reason of man, 303-l. Instinct is inspiration, either the animal itself or God in the animal, 304-u. Instincts and life of animals come from the Universal Soul, 666-l. Instructors, attempt to reach understanding through the eye by early, 355-m. Instructors or Masons from the 4th to the 8th Degrees; duties of, 331-m. Instructors to perfect, explain, expound to the younger Masons, 331-m. Instrument of the Hermetics to separate the gross from the volatile; Intelligence, 790-l. Intendant of the Building, 8th Degree, lesson of, 136-u. Intellect ever struggling to pass the bounds of its limitations, 696-l. Intellect has always sought to explain the nature of Deity, 738-m. Intellect, only sure mode of perpetuating Freedom is the franchise of, 31-l. Intellect placed above and beyond the Universe by the Egyptians, 614-u. Intellectual force of some persons absorbed by others, 735-u. Intelligence active as the soul became disengaged from gross matter, 669-l. Intelligence and Life communicated to man by Supreme Intelligence, 665-u. Intelligence and Wisdom conjoined and one shines in the other, 800-u. Intelligence:
— from Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike

n be sufficiently scalded, and when nearly scalded enough, uncover and stir steady until you have it cool enough to stop scalding; when you see it is scalded enough, and by stirring that the scalding is stopped, uncover your hogsheads, and stir them effectually, every fifteen minutes, until they are fit to cool off—remembering that sweet good yeast, clean sweet hogsheads, with this mode of mashing carefully, will produce you a good turn out of your grain.
— from The Practical Distiller An Introduction To Making Whiskey, Gin, Brandy, Spirits, &c. &c. of Better Quality, and in Larger Quantities, than Produced by the Present Mode of Distilling, from the Produce of the United States by Samuel McHarry

Fetzer had also said that extra women came to do the hardest cleaning.
— from Ellen Levis: A Novel by Elsie Singmaster

Miss Higgins passed along the tables, bending over the heads and speaking to each in a low voice.
— from The Long Day: The Story of a New York Working Girl, as Told by Herself by Dorothy Richardson

" The enemy were still keeping up a heavy fire from the shore, hallooing and shouting to each other as they fancied they caught a glimpse of their enemies.
— from True to the Old Flag: A Tale of the American War of Independence by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty