[347] SAUCE FOR ROAST WILD GOAT IUS IN CAPREA ASSA PEPPER, HERBS, RUE, ONION, HONEY, BROTH, RAISIN WINE, A LITTLE OIL, BIND WITH ROUX.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

Among the Ullādans, the nephew is the chief mourner, for he usually [ 219 ] succeeds to the property of the dead, and proves his right of ownership by acting as the chief mourner.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

En la Sala de las Santificaciones [49-8] encontraron a cuarenta suizos, resto del poder del ex Rey de Roma, [49-9] quienes los dejaron pasar adelante por haber recibido orden de no oponer resistencia alguna.
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

In small monastic houses governed by a prior his residence often formed the western side of the cloister-court.
— from English Villages by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

A future life, on the contrary, is a matter for faith or presumption; it is a prophetic hypothesis regarding occult existences.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

He contracted an irrevocable obligation to maintain and propagate his religious opinions; and whilst he secretly applauded the strength and dexterity with which he wielded the weapons of controversy, he was tempted to distrust the sincerity, or to despise the understandings, of his antagonists, who could obstinately resist the force of reason and eloquence.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

And Pythagoras having rebuked one of his pupils somewhat harshly before many people, they say the young fellow went off and hung himself, and from that moment Pythagoras never again rebuked anyone in another's presence.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

He cried out at the club that more troops were needed, that they ought to be telegraphed for from another province; he rushed off to the governor to protest that he had no hand in it, begged him not to allow his name on account of old associations to be brought into it, and offered to write about his protest to the proper quarter in Petersburg.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Thus war and peace have reacted on each other and developed each other, one within the group, the other in the intergroup relation.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

There is a pretty high rock on the northwest of Earraid, which (because it had a flat top and overlooked the Sound) I was much in the habit of frequenting; not that ever I stayed in one place, save when asleep, my misery giving me no rest.
— from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

When the average German tried to be gay and playful he reminded one of an elephant trying to caper.
— from History of the American Negro in the Great World War His Splendid Record in the Battle Zones of Europe; Including a Resume of His Past Services to his Country in the Wars of the Revolution, of 1812, the War of Rebellion, the Indian Wars on the Frontier, the Spanish-American War, and the Late Imbroglio With Mexico by William Allison Sweeney

"My soul—what a prize!" he rattled on, [189] entirely to himself as it turned out, for the sailors were not at all interested in a pet.
— from Mr. Wicker's Window by Carley Dawson

The officers were awfully nice to Austin; they are the most amiable ship in the world; and after lunch we had a paper handed round on which we were to guess, and sign our guess, of the number of leaves on the pine-apple; I never saw this game before, but it seems it is much practised in the Queen’s Navee.
— from Vailima Letters Being Correspondence Addressed by Robert Louis Stevenson to Sidney Colvin, November 1890-October 1894 by Robert Louis Stevenson

Bold, unscrupulous, and passionate, he, regardless of his profession, mingled freely, at county musters and political barbecues, with the lowest and vilest of the community, using every art his genius suggested to inflame the mad passions of men already excited to frenzy.
— from The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest by W. H. (William Henry) Sparks

After any person has received or declined the compliment, or received the salute from the commander of the guard, official recognition of his presence thereafter while he remains in the vicinity will be taken by bringing the guard to attention.
— from Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition by James A. (James Alfred) Moss

The sailors swore at him and pushed him roughly out of the way, and the mate cuffed and kicked him every time he came within reach.
— from Guy Harris, the Runaway by Harry Castlemon

No patriot who justly estimates our privileges, will tolerate the idea of emancipation, at any period however remote, or on any conditions of pecuniary advantage, however favorable.
— from Discussion on American Slavery by Robert J. (Robert Jefferson) Breckinridge

And page after page he ran over the type in all its sizes and in all its modifications of form.
— from The Adventures of Bobby Orde by Stewart Edward White

This was necessary since their strength was nearly exhausted, and provisions had run out, but an Indian trapper whom they had met two days before had given them directions and landmarks, some of which they recognized.
— from Blake's Burden by Harold Bindloss