“No, no; I mean I would have liked to have been Raphael without troubling myself about existing now, either in soul or body.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

The meat experts also effected notable economies in ship space by developing what was known as shankless beef.
— from America's Munitions 1917-1918 by Benedict Crowell

In each of these two groups the pores of the thorax and the abdomen are either nearly equal in size and form, or distinctly different, the abdominal pores being often much larger than the thoracic.
— from Report on the Radiolaria Collected by H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-1876, Second Part: Subclass Osculosa; Index Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-76, Vol. XVIII by Ernst Haeckel

{41} Should one side weary, the vase may be partially turned, and an entirely new effect is secured.
— from The Ceramic Art A Compendium of The History and Manufacture of Pottery and Porcelain by Jennie J. Young

"No, no; I mean I would have liked to have been Raphael without troubling myself about existing now, either in soul or body."
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 26: Spain by Giacomo Casanova

The next station is 150 Belgrano, where Mr. Matti, the great steamboat agent, has a most fantastic quinta, glittering in green and yellow colours, but of what style of architecture it would be difficult to determine; nevertheless it is a pretty place, and evidently no expense is spared to keep it in order.
— from Brazil and the River Plate in 1868 by William Hadfield

In a certain sense, no, because external things do not exist outside the spirit; and we already know that chronicle, as empty narrative, exists in so far as the spirit produces it and holds it firmly with an act of will (and it may be opportune to observe once more that such an act carries always with it a new act of consciousness and of thought): with an act of will, which abstracts the sound from the thought, in which dwelt the certainty and concreteness of the sound.
— from Theory & History of Historiography by Benedetto Croce

Adult poor who, on account of their great age, or of weakness, infirmity, and sickness of body or mind, or on account of immoral conduct, cannot be left to themselves, and who have no relations legally bound and able to superintend and take care of them, and who consequently would not be sufficiently relieved merely by a present in money or in kind, are even now, especially in small towns, taken in by all the members of the community in their turn, from house to house, by the day or by the week, or else put out to board in a fixed private house at the expense of the local funds.
— from Statement of the Provision for the Poor, and of the Condition of the Labouring Classes in a Considerable Portion of America and Europe Being the preface to the foreign communications contained in the appendix to the Poor-Law Report by Nassau William Senior

So said the monks, and even now, ere I spoke, I saw them again, there, standing mute, and with the paleness of dead men, by the side of my bed!"
— from Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 11 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron