Bien sûr, depuis le papier toilette en passant par le papier torchon, également pour allumer ma cheminée car c'est un excellent combustible… Comme je voyage beaucoup, il m'arrive aussi de lire un peu de tout mais personnellement, je ne l'utilise guère dans mon travail personnel, j'ai vraiment l'habitude de tout faire sur écran…
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Some years back (about 1910) A. McGill, chief chemist of the Canadian Inland Revenue Department, suggested an improvement upon Baron von Liebig's method, whereby Canadians might obtain an ideal cup of coffee.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

If, Sítá hidden by some tree, Thou joyest still to mock at me, Cease, cease thy cruel sport, and take Compassion, or my heart will break.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

There are market crosses, called “cheeping” crosses after the Anglo-Saxon cheap , to buy, from which Cheapside, in London, Chippenham and Chipping Norton derive their names.
— from English Villages by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

So when the Jews that dwelt about Mount Carmel came to Antigonus, and were ready to march with him into Judea, Antigonus hoped to get some part of the country by their assistance.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Since the true, the ancient, pronunciation has been lost, and, as many contend, cannot be even substantially recovered, it is a matter of individual preference what system shall be followed.] A. Abderus (ab-dee´-rus), 244 .
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

He is not of the city from which Morton College rises, but of a more country community farther in-state .
— from Plays by Susan Glaspell

Surely this awful responsibility has been forced upon me in order that I may humble myself to an offended Providence, and confess that a man cannot choose his own life.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Thence to the office, where Sir W. Rider, Capt. Cocke, and Mr. Cutler came by appointment to meet me to confer about the contract between us and them for 500 tons of hemp.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

I think there is no need for me to accentuate the fact that a musical conductor cannot blindly subscribe to just every programme that is put before him, and I hope that the honorable Committee will not consider that there is any assumption in my proposition to place the Aix-la-Chapelle programme more in accord with my own collective endeavors.
— from Letters of Franz Liszt -- Volume 1 from Paris to Rome: Years of Travel as a Virtuoso by Franz Liszt

I have gone through all my crosses constantly; have confounded my enemies, and know where to have my longing[s] satisfied: I have my way before me, there's the door, and I may freely walk into my delights: knock boy.
— from Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, Vol. 10 of 10 by John Fletcher

No two things, indeed, are more closely connected than poverty of language and poverty of thought.
— from Words; Their Use and Abuse by William Mathews

To reinforce this late-found discretion, and blow up the spark of alarm already kindled, I had not stood hesitating while a man could count ten, before my eye fell on the very same soldierly gentleman, with the handkerchief hanging out of his pocket, to whom I had been sent the evening before.
— from Shrewsbury: A Romance by Stanley John Weyman

Professor Morse, in 1843, indicated his conviction that a magnetic current could be conveyed across the Atlantic, and his reply to Mr. Field was now given with increased confidence to the same effect.
— from The Atlantic Telegraph (1865) by Russell, William Howard, Sir

Mr. A. Kingsley Porter thinks that door-jamb-figure sculpture was first used by Guglielmo at Modena Cathedral (c. 1100), and from Italy passed into southern France.
— from How France Built Her Cathedrals: A Study in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries by Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly

She was talking in her sleep, and listening attentively Martin could catch the words, "Mamma, Daddy."
— from If Any Man Sin by H. A. (Hiram Alfred) Cody

Even though the ancient skalds, as well as those historians who regarded the saga as a bit of actual history, may have made every effort to preserve for posterity the memory of this departed world, they could, nevertheless, hardly have avoided mingling certain Christian ideas with tradition.
— from Elements of Folk Psychology Outline of a Psychological History of the Development of Mankind by Wilhelm Max Wundt

And the Ki rubbed their bald heads a moment, and then sneezed together and wiped their eyes on faded yellow handkerchiefs, and finally declared they would "stick to her Supreme Highness through thick and thin!" "Then go over the wall to the cities, at once, and get together all the soldiers to fight for me and my cause," commanded the girl.
— from The Enchanted Island of Yew Whereon Prince Marvel Encountered the High Ki of Twi and Other Surprising People by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

A thing of superfinest texture, of deeply meditated cut; with Malineslace cuffs; quilted with gold; so that a man can carry, without difficulty, an estate of land on his back?
— from Past and Present by Thomas Carlyle