[Pg 44] The same thing I try'd also by letting the Sun's Light into a dark Room through two little round holes F and φ
— from Opticks Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton

tobacco in roll, and sugar in chests, besides rum, molasses, &c., which is the consequence of a sugar-work; and I found by this account, that every year the income considerably increased; but, as above, the disbursements being large, the sum at first was small: however, the old man let me see that he was debtor to me four hundred and seventy moidores of gold, besides sixty chests of sugar and fifteen double rolls of tobacco, which were lost in his ship; he having been shipwrecked coming home to Lisbon, about eleven years after my having the place.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Provisions were now brought in for the armament from all parts of Italy; and many of the Sicels, who had hitherto been looking to see how things went, came as allies to the Athenians: there also arrived three ships of fifty oars from Tyrrhenia.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

Did you behave like that six months ago?” “Lise, I beg you to desist,” said Prince Andrew still more emphatically.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

The sexual intercourse of all these Indians of whom I have spoken is open like that of cattle, and they have all one colour of skin, resembling that of the Ethiopians: moreover the seed which they emit is not white like that of other races, but black like their skin; and the Ethiopians also are similar in this respect.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

There may be a poorish few not wrong, savin’ where they make out the people too good; for there be folk that do think a balm-bowl be like the sea, if only it be their own.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

But in the morning, wearing my diving suit, I was crossing through the liquid mass in a temperature of –6° to –7° centigrade, when I noted that little by little the side walls were closing in on each other.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

Lily had no desire that they should recognize any social difference in her; but she had hoped to be received as their equal, and perhaps before long to show herself their superior by a special deftness of touch, and it was humiliating to find that, after two months of drudgery, she still betrayed her lack of early training.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

130 Before leaving the subject of cats, I must mention the belief that the “fresh-water fish called ikan belidah ” was “originally a cat.”
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

Everywhere through the web of sorrow of which our lives are woven there may suddenly break a clear, radiant thread of joy; even as suddenly along the street of some poor, poverty-stricken village which, ordinarily, sees nought but a farm waggon there may came bowling a gorgeous coach with plated harness, picturesque horses, and a glitter of glass, so that the peasants stand gaping, and do not resume their caps until long after the strange equipage has become lost to sight.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

They have been led to suppose that large tracts of ground were to be set aside for them as hunting grounds, including timber lands, of which they might sell the wood as if they were proprietors of the soil.
— from The Treaties of Canada with the Indians of Manitoba and the North-West Territories Including the Negotiations on Which They Were Based, and Other Information Relating Thereto by Alexander Morris

This is now the large end of the street, and that which has been left the small.
— from The Life of the Fields by Richard Jefferies

high explosive will be less than stated therein.
— from Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2 by Ian Hamilton

And I think we'd better look to see what it is."
— from The Strength of the Pines by Edison Marshall

'I beg leave to state for your service,' said Shîr Ali, 'neither.
— from The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan by James Justinian Morier

So you can see how it would have been likely to strike me when I first found it out.
— from Sir Harry: A Love Story by Archibald Marshall

There could be no mistake about it, for all of them recognized the conformation of the ground in the immediate neighborhood, since they had taken particular pains to impress the same on their minds before leaving the spot.
— from Boy Scouts on Hudson Bay; Or, The Disappearing Fleet by G. Harvey (George Harvey) Ralphson

167 may possibly be leaves , the symbols of the living, loving Elf , or Life —“this senior-junior, giant-dwarf Dan Cupid”.
— from Archaic England An Essay in Deciphering Prehistory from Megalithic Monuments, Earthworks, Customs, Coins, Place-names, and Faerie Superstitions by Harold Bayley