Narrow hems do not need to be tacked, but wide ones, where the first turning should only be just wide enough to prevent the edge from fraying, ought always to be.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

It was presided over by Joly; Xavier Durrieu and Jules Gouache, who were editors of the Révolution , also took part, as well as several Italian exiles, amongst others Colonel Carini and Montanelli, ex-Minister of the Grand Duke of Tuscany.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

So that from the practise of those times, there can no argument be drawn, that the right of Supremacy in Religion was not in the Kings, unlesse we place it in the Prophets; and conclude, that because Hezekiah praying to the Lord before the Cherubins, was not answered from thence, nor then, but afterwards by the Prophet Isaiah, therefore Isaiah was supreme Head of the Church; or because Josiah consulted Hulda the Prophetesse, concerning the Book of the Law, that therefore neither he, nor the High Priest, but Hulda the Prophetesse had the Supreme authority in matter of Religion; which I thinke is not the opinion of any Doctor.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

This was occasioned by Johnson, who it seems, upon a little recollection, had taken it into his head that he ought to have done the honours of his literary residence to a foreign lady of quality, and eager to shew himself a man of gallantry, was hurrying down the stair-case in violent agitation.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

Foulon must not only be judged righteously; but judged there where he stands, without any delay.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

We went on board just before noon, the hour of sailing.
— from Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington

If you do not step upon this snare that I have spread Within two days or three, You shall be choked to death with blood in your throat, You shall be in sore straits within the limits of your own Big Jungle.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

Texts in Mermaid Series, Temple Dramatists, Morley's Universal Library, etc.; Masques and Entertainments of Ben Jonson, edited by Morley, in Carisbrooke Library; Timber, edited by Schelling, in Athenæum Press Series.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

From the way they talked, you'd think I had started the syndicate idea myself and had lured them into it against their own better judgment.
— from The Motormaniacs by Lloyd Osbourne

But I ain't; I'm getting old—not too old, but just old enough!" A dozen years with the boys had done for Field's digestion what the robust Florence was dreading after sixty, and to the day of his death, Field, from the rigid practice of his self-denial, pitied and sympathized with the unhappy wight who had received the warning given to Florence, "You must quit training with the boys, otherwise it will do you up."
— from Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 1 by Slason Thompson

Particularly after the slaying of Oswald by Jack Ruby under the circumstances described in the preceding chapter, rumors and suspicions developed regarding the existence of a conspiracy to assassinate President Kennedy.
— from Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by United States. Warren Commission

Some of them were the Rheer Hamaturwa, with whom I tried again for permission to cross their hills, but this time by the gap at the head of the valley in front of Bunder Jedid.
— from What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile by John Hanning Speke

There were violations of the harvester's status, it is true; [Footnote: Admiralty Records 1. 5125—Memorial of Sir William Oglander, Bart., July 1796.]
— from The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore by J. R. (John Robert) Hutchinson

Now, you shall sit in the front or back just as you please, in the most comfortable of chairs, and I will sit opposite you and snooze,—that is,” rather doubtfully, for she was afraid of Tessa, “unless you will let me tell you my secret.”
— from Tessa Wadsworth's Discipline: A Story of the Development of a Young Girl's Life by Conklin, Nathaniel, Mrs.

They were bought off by Jugurtha, and returned home without accomplishing anything.
— from Ancient Rome : from the earliest times down to 476 A. D. by Robert F. Pennell

The grumblers now went about inciting the people against Moses, saying: "Don't you know that the son of Amram had once been Jethro's shepherd, and all shepherds have knowledge of the places in the wilderness that are rich in water?
— from The Legends of the Jews — Volume 3 by Louis Ginzberg

She is taken care of by Jeanette, the sexton’s wife, once a servant at the château, and who knows all its past history: we love to hear about those who lived before us in the same dwelling.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 15, Nos. 85-90, April 1872-September 1872 A Monthly Magazine by Various