There is no admiration between them, I do assure you; and the appearances which have caught you, have arisen from some peculiar circumstances—feelings rather of a totally different nature—it is impossible exactly to explain:—there is a good deal of nonsense in it—but the part which is capable of being communicated, which is sense, is, that they are as far from any attachment or admiration for one another, as any two beings in the world can be.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

When off the Azores, five ships parted company for the East Indies, under Suffren, of whom more will be heard later on.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

And so the words of Socrates, which at first sounded paradoxical, come home to the experience of all of us.
— from Gorgias by Plato

Pain is either taken away or eased, for the true cure is to take away the cause of the pain, sometimes the vehemency of the pain is so great that you must be forced to use Anodines (for so physicians call such medicines as ease pain) before you can meddle with the cause, and this is usually when the part pained is inflamed, for those medicines which take away the cause of pain being very hot, if there be any inflammation in the part pained, you must abstain from them till the inflammation be taken away.
— 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

The more we descend towards the South, the more difficult does it become to abolish slavery with advantage: and this arises from several physical causes which it is important to point out.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Not only can the following stitches, which are suitable for any linen coarse or fine, be used for this kind of embroidery, but most of the net and lace patterns too, and these combined with buttonholing and flat stitch produce charming effects.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

The cart reached him; it was a fairly solid peasant cart.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Then, as the destroyer steadied on her helm, the aperture a few seconds previously clear of the water was now eighteen inches beneath the surface.
— from The Fight for Constantinople: A Story of the Gallipoli Peninsula by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

A very large number of meetings were held, and in a business manner the election was prepared for, with the result that about one-fourth of the new-formed Council were working men, and fully seventy per cent.
— from A History of the Durham Miner's Association 1870-1904 by John Wilson

And they flew away, for some people came into the room.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Two choking, gasping, spluttering heads appeared simultaneously: with one accord four striving paws clawed desperately at the rim of the butt.
— from Anthony Lyveden by Dornford Yates

Element: A file, squad, platoon, company, or larger body, forming part of a still larger body.
— from Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition by James A. (James Alfred) Moss

He had scribbled a good deal of poetry of the ordinary kind, which attracted little attention, but finding conventional rhymes and meters too cramping a vehicle for his need of expression, he discarded them for a kind of rhythmic chant, of which the following is a fair specimen: "Press close, bare-bosom'd night!
— from Initial Studies in American Letters by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers