From this spot to the middle of the Pyrenees, Varro says, is a distance of 1400 miles; while to the Anas, by which we have mentioned 3131 Lusitania as being separated from Bætica, is 126 miles, it being 102 more to Gades.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

The great anterior triangle, which is marked as that space inclosed within the points, 6, the top of the sternum, the mental symphysis and the angle of the maxilla; and whose sides are marked by the median line of the neck before, the sterno-mastoid behind, and the ramus of the jaw above, contains C, the common carotid artery, becoming superficial from beneath the sterno-mastoid muscle, and dividing into E, the internal carotid, and D, the external carotid.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

There was a brief struggle, followed by two heavy bumps on the floor, and then a rather doleful voice said: “I say, Tom!”
— from Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

Once upon a time it was thought that Java and Mocha were the only worthwhile blend, but now we know that a Bogota coffee from Colombia, and a Bourbon Santos from Brazil, make a most satisfying drink.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

And they came to a black laund; and there was a black hawthorn, and thereon hung a black banner, and on the other side there hung a black shield, and by it stood a black spear great and long, and a great black horse covered with silk, and a black stone fast by.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

Islands are, therefore, in a better situation for benefiting by this restitution.”
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

The Manifolde vntruthes which is spread abroade, concerning the detestable actions and apprehension of those Witches wherof this Historye following truely entreateth, hath caused me to publish the same in print: and the rather for that sundrie written Copies are lately dispersed therof, containing, that the said witches were first discouered, by meanes of a poore Pedler trauailing to the towne of Trenent , and that by a wonderfull manner he was in a moment conuayed at midnight, from Scotland to Burdeux in Fraunce (beeing places of no small distance between) into a Marchants Seller there, & after, being sent from Burdeux into Scotland by certaine Scottish Marchants to the Kinges Maiestie, that he discouered those Witches and was the cause of their apprehension: with a number of matters miraculous and incredible: All which in truthe are moste false.
— from Daemonologie. by King of England James I

The Arabians called our Ladies-thistles by that name; the roots of which are drying and binding, stop fluxes, bleeding, take away cold swellings, and ease the pains of the teeth.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

[A; a] boil starchy foods, but not rice: ears of corn, root crops, bananas.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

They may also be similarly fattened by hogging off corn or gathering it from the excrement of cattle that are being fattened on it.
— from Pratt's Practical Pointers on the Care of Livestock and Poultry by Pratt Food Company

Though you will pardon me for confessing, what you already know, that I am not in all points an adherent to your ideas concerning a “Key to All Mythologies” (at least, as briefly set forth by you in Kuhn’s Zeitung ), yet I am deeply impressed with this apparent opportunity of bridging the seemingly impassable gulf between Etrurian Religion and the comparatively clear and comprehensible systems of the Pelasgo-Phoenician peoples.
— from Old Friends: Essays in Epistolary Parody by Andrew Lang

It was, indeed, a very ugly fact that the rector of the parish should be thus officially engaged, not only in nullifying the political rights of his own Protestant parishioners, but in destroying their tenant-right, evicting them from their holdings, which they believed to be legal robbery and oppression, accompanied by such flagrant breach of faith as tended to destroy all confidence between man and man, and thus to dissolve the strongest bonds of society.
— from The Land-War in Ireland: A History for the Times by James Godkin