A Pithamarda [26] is a man without wealth, alone in the world, whose only property consists of his Mallika, [27] some lathering, substance and a red cloth, who comes from a good country, and who is skilled in all the arts; and by teaching these arts is received in the company of citizens, and in the abode of public women.
— from The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks by Vatsyayana

His letter mentions his giving me and my wife a pair of gloves; but, opening the box, we found a pair of plain white gloves for my hand, and a fair state dish of silver, and cup, with my arms, ready cut upon them, worth, I believe, about L18, which is a very noble present, and the best I ever had yet.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

It is mentioned by Strabo and Dioscorides, according to Kämpfer, who says it was in his time made under the name of a medicinal stomachic; the rich added Radix Chinae , ambergris, and aromatic spices; the poor, liquorice and Persian absinth.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

We have all of us living duties and living affections which claim, and rightly claim, our strenuous endeavours.
— from Dubliners by James Joyce

On one side a hundred thousand men, seventeen harnessed batteries, six thousand cannon-mouths in the forts, magazines, arsenals, ammunition sufficient to carry out a Russian campaign; on the other a hundred and twenty Representatives, a thousand or twelve hundred patriots, six hundred muskets, two cartridges per man, not a drum to beat to arms, not a bell to sound the tocsin, not a printing office to print a Proclamation; barely here and there a lithographic press, and a cellar where a hand-bill can be hurriedly and furtively printed with the brush; the penalty of death against any one who unearths a paving stone, penalty of death against any one who would enlist in our ranks, penalty of death against any one who is found in a secret meeting, penalty of death against any one who shall post up an appeal to arms; if you are taken during the combat, death; if you are taken after the combat, transportation or exile; on the one side an army and a Crime; on the other a handful of men and Right.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

It then appeared to me that he was not a true believer, and from that time forward I could not believe him, as I would believe a real Christian, but I wished to hear his worldly arguments.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

The iron scalpel has already made acquaintance with not only the greater parts, but even with the infinitesimals of the human body; and reason, confined to this narrow range of a subject, perceives herself to be imprisoned, and quenches her guiding light in despair.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

A devout and sincere attachment for the gods of Athens and Rome constituted the ruling passion of Julian; 1 the powers of an enlightened understanding were betrayed and corrupted by the influence of superstitious prejudice; and the phantoms which existed only in the mind of the emperor had a real and pernicious effect on the government of the empire.
— 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

guardabarreras , m. , watchman in charge of a railway crossing.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

The air was borne by a rich contralto.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

After reaching Chattanooga Valley, the creek of the same name, quite a formidable stream to get an army over, had to be crossed.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Part 4. by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

So the struggle ended, and we resumed our route, Mr. Petulengro sitting sideways upon his horse as before, and I driving my little pony-cart; and when we had proceeded about three miles, we came to a small public-house, which bore the sign of the Silent Woman, where we stopped to refresh our cattle and ourselves; and as we sat over our bread and ale, it came to pass that Mr. Petulengro asked me various questions, and amongst others, how I intended to dispose of myself; I told him that I did not know; whereupon with considerable frankness, he invited me to his camp, and told me that if I chose to settle down amongst them, and become a Rommany chal, I should have his wife’s sister, Ursula, who was still unmarried, and occasionally talked of me.
— from Lavengro: The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest by George Borrow

The lords and countesses, and rich county members, and leading politicians, who were delighted to welcome him, would not care for his wife; nor could he very well take his wife among them.
— from The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope

Soon he breathed again, but he remained unconscious, and a restored circulation caused blood to flow freely from the back of his head.
— from The King of Diamonds: A Tale of Mystery and Adventure by Louis Tracy

"A radical change throughout the country is absolutely necessary.
— from Ismailia by Baker, Samuel White, Sir

[51] that any real climax of phraseology can be attained.
— from Studies in Modern Music, Second Series Frederick Chopin, Antonin Dvořák, Johannes Brahms by W. H. (William Henry) Hadow

spare that Tree! ' which was received with the customary applause; upon which Mr. Russell arose, and begged permission to 'relate a remarkable circumstance connected with that song.'
— from The Knickerbocker, Vol. 22, No. 6, December 1843 by Various

ool on which the boy is sitting is a rickety concern, and its creakings annoy Mr. Flint, who comes out, and looks over the orphan's [Pg 64] shoulder.
— from Daisy's Necklace, and What Came of It by Thomas Bailey Aldrich