A Sakuna Pakshi, before starting on a begging expedition, rises early, and has a cold meal.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

We passed some time on board eating raw eggs and drinking saké .
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

Cursed with an ambition which would not let him rest, which ever urged him to new struggles, new extravagances, new ventures, and contrariwise cursed with a sensitiveness, a cowardice that made each step in the path of his career an added terror to his brain, each rough encounter a fresh misery, each rebuff a stinging agony.
— from Barbara Winslow, Rebel by Beth Ellis

Thrice thou hast answered, by each reply effacing a former denial, and now I ask no more.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. Mark by Alexander Maclaren

Grave offences were punishable by expulsion, rustication, etc., and those who committed only [ 33 ] “minor offences” were liable to penalties of extreme severity.
— from Cambridge Papers by W. W. Rouse (Walter William Rouse) Ball

And he recalled the day when, breakfasting at Champeaux', ruined once more, and doubting his star, he had cast hungry glances at the Bourse, furiously eager for his revenge, feverishly longing to begin everything, reconquer everything again.
— from Money (L'Argent) by Émile Zola

At Ruangwa Chini, which is the name of the place in the neighbourhood of which No. 1 Column had been held up all day, the road at the spot near which the camp was being established runs east and west and roughly parallel to the river, which is distant from it a few hundred yards on the north—the right of the British advance.
— from The Gold Coast Regiment in the East African Campaign by Clifford, Hugh Charles, Sir

HELLEBORINE Calceolus dicta, mariana, foliis binis e radice ex adverso prodeuntibus, flore purpureo Pluk.
— from The Botanical Magazine, Vol. 06 Or, Flower-Garden Displayed by William Curtis

You could have come over so often, as a bachelor,—for it was a thorough bachelor's mansion—plenty of wine and such sordid sensualities—with books enough, room enough, and an air of antiquity about all (except the Pg 234 lasses) that would have suited you, when pensive, and served you to laugh at when in glee.
— from Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 2 With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore

He showed that an economical question is invariably hidden beneath each religious evolution, and that, upon the whole, the everlasting evil, the everlasting struggle, has never been aught but one between the rich and the poor.
— from The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Complete by Émile Zola