So home to dinner, and after dinner comes Creed to discourse with me about several things of Tangier concernments and accounts, among others starts the doubt, which I was formerly aware of, but did wink at it, whether or no Lanyon and his partners be not paid for more than they should be, which he presses, so that it did a little discompose me; but, however, I do think no harm will arise thereby.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The main blood vessels and nerves of the arm traverse the front aspect of the wrist, and are distributed chiefly to supply the palmar surface of the hand, since in the palm are to be found a greater variety and number of structures than are met with on the back of the hand.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

As Divine Wisdom was sometimes expressed Ath-Ain, or Αθηνα ; so, at other times, the terms were reversed, and a Deity constituted called An-Ait.
— from A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Jacob Bryant

apud Augustin. de Civitat.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Anne had at last discovered a real “kindred spirit,” while into the little lady’s lonely, sequestered life of dreams Anne and Diana came with the wholesome joy and exhilaration of the outer existence, which Miss Lavendar, “the world forgetting, by the world forgot,” had long ceased to share; they brought an atmosphere of youth and reality to the little stone house.
— from Anne of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

[294] The term social epidemic, which is, like fashion, a form of social contagion, has a different origin and a different connotation.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

In the comparatively early state of human advancement in which we now live, a person cannot indeed feel that entireness of sympathy with all others, which would make any real discordance in the general direction of their conduct in life impossible; but already a person in whom the social feeling is at all developed, cannot bring himself to think of the rest of his fellow creatures as struggling rivals with him for the means of happiness, whom he must desire to see defeated in their object in order that he may succeed in his.
— from Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill

‘I am a determined character,’ said Mr. Creakle.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

I go to wait on my great-aunt, and a dear, cross old soul she is, too," answered Jo.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

“Mine is an absolutely different case.
— from Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

Some gave the right answer, a dirty cow-yard, but some said a clean cow-yard: the lot of the latter was poverty, for they were to have no stock of cattle.
— from Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx (Volume 1 of 2) by Rhys, John, Sir

Accordingly, the Spanish ambassador, the legate, and the other chiefs of the Holy League appointed a deputation, consisting of the Cardinal Gondy, the Archbishop of Lyons, and the Abbe d'Elbene, to Henry.
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

That the Æthiopians , Mauritanians and Arabians did commonly eat them, is testified by Diodorus , Strabo , Solinus , Ælian and Pliny : that they still feed on them is confirmed by Leo , Cadamustus and others.
— from The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, Volume 3 by Browne, Thomas, Sir

They allude evidently to Jacob's vision, to the ladder reaching from earth to heaven, on which the angels were ascending and descending continually.
— from The Christian Life: Its Course, Its Hindrances, and Its Helps by Thomas Arnold

But it is extremely doubtful whether a single one of those eighteen boys secured so much as a decent cat-nap between that hour and dawn.
— from The Banner Boy Scouts Afloat; or, The Secret of Cedar Island by George A. Warren