The Nestorianism of Cosmas, unknown to his learned editor, was detected by La Croze, (Christianisme des Indes, tom. i. p. 40—55,) and is confirmed by Assemanni, (Bibliot.
— 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 by the offensively smelling vitriol works did he not pass night after night by loving courting couples to see if and what and how much he could see?
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

Islandiae descriptione victus corum butyro, lacte, caseo consistit: pisces loco panis habent, potus aqua, aut serum, sic vivunt sine medicina multa ad annos 200.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

I am glad to hear that my father continues so well; and am, with best love, &c., CATHERINE VERNON.
— from Lady Susan by Jane Austen

Before leaving C—— C—— had left a letter for me, in which she said that if I would promise to marry her at some time suitable to myself, she would wait for me, and refuse all other offers.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Suppose we take a man with native benevolence amounting almost to folly; but little cunning, caution, or veneration; good perceptive, but better reflective faculties; and a dominant love of the beautiful;--and toss him into the focus of civilization in the age of Louis XIV.
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

Chattering in this way, Mr. Bob Sawyer pushed Mr. Winkle into the back room, where, amusing himself by boring little circular caverns in the chimney-piece with a red-hot poker, sat no less a person than Mr. Benjamin Allen. ‘Well!’ said Mr. Winkle.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

They are, in order of assignment: Colonel Percy W. Black, Brigadier General Oscar N. Solbert, Colonel Charles Blakeney, Lieutenant Colonel Charles Alexander Holmes Thomson, Colonel John Stanley, Lieutenant Colonel Richard Hirsch, Lieutenant Colonel Bruce Buttles, Colonel Dana Johnston, Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Tatum, and Lieutenant Colonel Wesley Edwards.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

Esther replied that she did, but Lady Clifford closed her eyes, not listening.
— from Juggernaut by Alice Campbell

3. Books, Lectures, &c.: — constant appeals to physical science in, 128 .
— from The Eagle's Nest Ten Lectures on the Relation of Natural Science to Art, Given Before the University of Oxford, in Lent Term, 1872 by John Ruskin

Only Biblical lamentation can convey a vision of this life-drained land.
— from Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort by Edith Wharton

This second detachment was commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Campbell, who was escorted by Commodore Hyde Parker, and was destined to act against the southern states.
— from The Life of George Washington: A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Editions by John Marshall

None but lunatics could continue to conspire, after the conspiracy had been exposed and the conspirators arrested.
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

Then, one day the prison doctor, who had been observing Vaniman for some time, took the bookkeeper into his office and examined him thoroughly; he gravely informed the warden that the young man had symptoms of incipient kidney trouble and ought to be less closely confined.
— from When Egypt Went Broke: A Novel by Holman Day

[Pg 42] Child's Code List Tie Dot Net Meat Heart Snow Town Nun Moon Horn Home Dime Enemy Mama Army Wire Deer Nero Hammer Rower Wheel Towel Nail Mail Roll Sash Dish Hinge Mush Roach Egg Duck Ink Mike Rock Ivy Taffy Knife Movie Roof Whip Tub Knob Mop Robe Toes Nose Mouse Rose Lasso Lady Shed Kite Foot Bath Lion Ocean Cane Vine Pony Limb Jam Gum Foam Bomb Lair Chair Car Fur Bear Lily Jail Glue Veil Pail Ledge Judge Cage Fish Beach Log Chalk Cook Fig Book Wolf Chief Coffee Fife Beehive Lap Ship Cap Fob Papa Ashes Goose Office Puss Daisies The Game of Code A game to develop accuracy and rapidity in the use of the words of this Code List.
— from Miller's Mind training for children Book 2 (of 3) A practical training for successful living; Educational games that train the senses by William Emer Miller

Where the mother does not intend to nurse her child, a different plan of treatment must be adopted: the shoulders should be lightly covered, cold evaporating lotions applied to the breasts, and the bowels freely opened by saline laxatives, her diet must be abstemious until the fulness of the breasts subsides, and she ought not to take much fluid: where there is a disposition to febrile action, an antimonial may be advantageously combined with the salines.
— from A System of Midwifery by Edward Rigby

Soft toast, soft eggs, fine cereal gruels, well-cooked rice, well-baked white potatoes, meat, wine or fruit jellies; then lightly broiled beefsteak, lamb chop, chicken, sweetbreads, or brains given in small quantities until the intestinal tract has regained its vigor.
— from Dietetics for Nurses by Fairfax T. (Fairfax Throckmorton) Proudfit