51 Net embroidery 51 Net patterns 52 Net darning 62 Damask stitches 63 WHITE EMBROIDERY 76 Stitches 77 Different kinds of scallops 79 Eyelet holes 80 Six ways of making dots 81 Venetian embroidery 82 Patterns and alphabets 83 FLAT STITCH AND GOLD EMBROIDERY 105
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

This visit was, as has been said, a grand event.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

We people of fortune, or such as are born to large expectations, of both sexes, are generally educated wrong.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

And democracy comes into power when the poor are the victors, killing some and exiling some, and giving equal shares in the government to all the rest.
— from The Republic by Plato

Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrha," etc.).
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Exactly the same thing holds of special and general education of the mind.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

Then I repaired to the library to ascertain whether the fire was lit, for, though summer, I knew on such a gloomy evening Mr. Rochester would like to see a cheerful hearth when he came in: yes, the fire had been kindled some time, and burnt well.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

They would have forgiven his going to the houses of 'bores' (to whom, as it happened, in his heart of hearts he infinitely preferred the Verdurins and all their little 'nucleus') had he consented to set a good example by openly renouncing those 'bores' in the presence of the 'faithful.'
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

Out of this you went up three steps into Ada's bedroom, which had a fine broad window commanding a beautiful view (we saw a great expanse of darkness lying underneath the stars), to which there was a hollow window-seat, in which, with a spring-lock, three dear Adas might have been lost at once.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

The Spaniards, too, by landing forces in the south, and giving every encouragement to the discontented natives to join their standard, kept the island in a continual state of turbulence and warfare.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

The "pastern," "coronary," and "coffin" bones of veterinarians answer to the joints of our middle fingers, while the hoof is simply a greatly enlarged and thickened nail.
— from Lectures and Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley

His evidence is derived chiefly from documents showing that wine was made three centuries ago in the Vivarais and several other provinces, at an earlier season, at greater elevations, and in higher latitudes, than are now found suitable to the vine.
— from Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

For the same size of electron stream in the primary, therefore, there is induced in the secondary a greater e. m. f.
— from Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son by John Mills

Geographic coordinates: 25 30 N, 51 15 E Map references: Middle East Area: total: 11,437 sq km land: 11,437 sq km water: 0 sq km Area - comparative: slightly smaller than Connecticut Land boundaries: total: 60 km border countries: Saudi Arabia 60 km Coastline: 563 km Maritime claims: territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: as determined by bilateral agreements or the median line Climate: arid; mild, pleasant winters; very hot, humid summers Terrain: mostly flat and barren desert covered with loose sand and gravel Elevation extremes: lowest point: Persian Gulf 0 m highest point: Qurayn Abu al Bawl 103 m Natural resources: petroleum, natural gas, fish Land use: arable land: 1.64% permanent crops: 0.27% other: 98.09% (2005)
— from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

She wore light-coloured open-work stockings and gold embroidered slippers.
— from The Hidden Force: A Story of Modern Java by Louis Couperus

When war came we felt it our duty to take care of the men on our ships who could no longer sail, and also to set a good example.
— from Current History, Vol. VIII, No. 3, June 1918 A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times by Various

In jasper caves she lies behind her veils; And jars of spice, and gilded ears of corn, And wine-red roses and rose-red wine-grails Feed her long trances while the far flutes mourn.
— from The Hours of Fiammetta A Sonnet Sequence by Rachel Annand Taylor