They went and brought so much food that it made a great pile across the house, and all of both tribes ate together, but could not finish it.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

“Of what was that balsam, or, rather, decoction, made, which, as we learn from the preliminary inquiry, you used on that evening to rub your lumbago, in the hope of curing it?” Grigory looked blankly at the questioner, and after a brief silence muttered, “There was saffron in it.”
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

They encouraged me to take a nap and for a brief, shameful moment, I got all paranoid like maybe these guys were thinking of turning me in once I was asleep.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

He was really kramat , and was said to have been shot at by several Malays, and the present Sergeant-Major Allie, now stationed at Kuala Lumpur, can vouch for this.”
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

There were still the requisite lineaments, still the same vivid vermillion and bloom reigning in his face; but now the roses were more fully blown; the tan of his travels, and a beard somewhat more distinguishable, had, at the expense of no more delicacy than what he could well spare, given it an air of becoming manliness and maturity, that symmetrized nobly with that air of distinction and empire with which nature had stamped it, in a rare mixture with the sweetness of it; still nothing had he lost of that smooth plumpness of flesh, which, glowing with freshness, blooms florid to the eye, and delicious to the touch; then his shoulders were grown more square, his shape more formed, more portly, but still free and airy.
— from Memoirs of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) by John Cleland

Proceeding southwardly, the explorer saw, at first, the same class of trees, but less and less lofty and Salvatorish in character; then he saw the gentler elm, succeeded by the sassafras and locust—these again by the softer linden, red-bud, catalpa, and maple—these yet again by still more graceful and more modest varieties.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

Many things therefore ought to be forethought of as desirable, but none of them such as are impossible: I mean relative to the number of citizens and the extent of the territory: for as other artificers, such as the weaver and the shipwright, ought to have such materials as are fit for their work, since so much the better they are, by so much [1326a] superior will the work itself necessarily be; so also ought the legislator and politician endeavour to procure proper materials for the business they have in hand.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

He threw his cigarette end impatiently down the periscope well and began slowly moving the heavy periscope round, shuffling around with it as he swept the clearing horizon.
— from The Story of Our Submarines by John Graham Bower

As Bacon says: " Multi pertransibunt et augebitur scientia .
— from Ethics and Modern Thought: A Theory of Their Relations by Rudolf Eucken

This description is not taken from A. necydaloides , but from a Brazilian species more than five times its size, which I have named A. grandis .
— from An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. 3 or Elements of the Natural History of the Insects by William Kirby

I feel a little uncomfortable at being so much farther removed from Calcutta.
— from Henry Martyn, Saint and Scholar First Modern Missionary to the Mohammedans, 1781-1812 by George Smith

One was a big seafaring man with a weatherbeaten face.
— from The Pilots of Pomona: A Story of the Orkney Islands by Robert Leighton

We have read some of the passages of the commentary prepared for "the Woman's Bible" by that very accomplished American woman and Biblical student, Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
— from The Woman's Bible by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

To fill up a work with these scraps may, indeed, be considered as a downright cheat on the learned world, who are by such means imposed upon to buy a second time, in fragments and by retail, what they have already in gross, if not in their memories, upon their shelves; and it is still more cruel upon the illiterate, who are drawn in to pay for what is of no manner of use to them.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

A cup of coffee and a beefsteak set me right, and I started for my miserable home.
— from Living Too Fast; Or, The Confessions of a Bank Officer by Oliver Optic

If so, might she not discern me now, gazing up at her chamber, and by some means or other contrive a meeting!
— from The Eye of Istar: A Romance of the Land of No Return by William Le Queux