For the other tables the salt is placed on pieces of bread, scooped out for that purpose by the intendants, who are called porte-chappes.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

April 2.—Spoke to-day the magnetic cutter in charge of the middle section of floating telegraph wires.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

At the same moment all of King Olaf's men who were in life sprang overboard from the Serpent; and Thorkel Nefia, the king's brother, was the last of all the men who sprang overboard.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

It was echoed from Salêve, the Juras, and the Alps of Savoy; vivid flashes of lightning dazzled my eyes, illuminating the lake, making it appear like a vast sheet of fire; then for an instant every thing seemed of a pitchy darkness, until the eye recovered itself from the preceding flash.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

We receive suggestions through the stories of friends, through the examples of strangers, through our physical condition, through our food, through our small and large experiences.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

Many a Japanese [Pg 231] started out for the Allied lines and failed to make his peaceful intentions plain enough.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

Earnest young men found the gray-headed scholar as young at heart as they; thoughtful or troubled women instinctively brought their doubts to him, sure of finding the gentlest sympathy, the wisest counsel.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

He was startled from this view by a shrill outcry from the tattered man.
— from The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane

At the same time the 6th Cavalry Division was sent from Mazeray, and passing by Boutancourt and Bolzicourt, reached the Meuse at Flize; the 2d Cavalry Division quitted its encampment, and took up its position to the south of Boutancourt; the 4th Cavalry Division took up its position to the south of Frénois; the 1st Bavarian Corps installed itself at Remilly; the 5th Cavalry Division and the 6th Corps were posted to observe, and all in line, and order, massed upon the heights waited for the dawn to appear.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

That was exactly what he was; and, if anybody had become acquainted with either son or father, there would have been no difficulty afterward in identifying the other.
— from Dab Kinzer: A Story of a Growing Boy by William O. Stoddard

But it was not, to be expected that such doctrines as are contained in the System of Nature, would be advanced without meeting with some opposition from the superficial and bigoted metaphysicians, who feel an interest in upholding a system of delusion and superstition.
— from The System of Nature, or, the Laws of the Moral and Physical World. Volume 2 by Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'

The governor, with the consent of the Senate, was to appoint the inspector for a term of five years at a salary not exceeding $3,000 a year, such inspector to pass a satisfactory examination before a committee of the American Society of Civil Engineers, themselves practical experts in bridge construction, and he was also to take a suitable oath for the faithful performance of his duty.
— from Bridge Disasters in America: The Cause and the Remedy by George L. (George Leonard) Vose

I mean you have to have thin hands, and be able to sort of fold them up so's they're no thicker than your wrists.
— from Dave Dawson with the Pacific Fleet by Robert Sidney Bowen

And this leads us to notice a saying of that comprehensive genius, which we do not recollect having seen quoted in connexion with recent controversies, but which is well worthy of being borne in mind, as teaching us to beware of hastily assuming that objections to Revelation, whether suggested by the progress of science, or from the supposed incongruity of its own contents, are unanswerable.
— from Reason and Faith; Their Claims and Conflicts From The Edinburgh Review, October 1849, Volume 90, No. CLXXXII. (Pages 293-356) by Henry Rogers

The Parisians cannot realise to themselves the possibility of their city being taken; they are still, in their own estimation, the representative men of "la grande nation," and they still cite the saying of Frederick the Great that, were he King of France, not a sword should be drawn without his permission, as though this were a dictum that a sage had uttered yesterday.
— from Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris by Henry Labouchere

Six of the French still had their colors flying; but either from their cables being cut by shot, or from the necessity of slipping to avoid the explosion of the "Orient," they had drifted far astern.
— from The Influence of Sea Power upon the French Revolution and Empire 1793-1812, vol 1 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

Fanny stood off from that proposition as visibly to the Princess, and as consciously to herself, as she might have backed away from the edge of a chasm into which she feared to slip; a truth that contributed again to keep before our young woman her own constant danger of advertising her subtle processes.
— from The Golden Bowl — Volume 2 by Henry James

And then, from over to the left, startlingly sudden to every one of those hardy young Americans, had come the sound of firing, the crack and crackle of firearms, followed presently by the tearing, resonant fusillading of a machine-gun that, at a distance, reminds one of the rapid rolling of a barrel down hill over stony ground.
— from The Brighton Boys in the Trenches by James R. Driscoll

This was the route by which, according to tradition, Manco Ccápac set out from the island of Titicaca to found the Inca Empire.
— from Vagabonding down the Andes Being the Narrative of a Journey, Chiefly Afoot, from Panama to Buenos Aires by Harry Alverson Franck