Technical difficulties face them, which require knowledge, and can only be overcome by a continuous, systematic effort, and at certain stages must be met by means of communal labour.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

Perhaps, indeed, there may be now and tan a verse which I can't make much of, because half the letters are left out; yet I know very well what is meant by that, and that our affairs don't go so well as they should do, because of bribery and corruption.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

16 These various references to Babrias induced Dr. Plichard Bentley, at the close of the seventeenth century, to examine more minutely the existing versions of Aesop’s Fables, and he maintained that many of them could, with a slight change of words, be resolved into the Scazonic 17 iambics, in which Babrias is known to have written: and, with a greater freedom than the evidence then justified, he put forth, in behalf of Babrias, a claim to the exclusive authorship of these fables.
— from Aesop's Fables Translated by George Fyler Townsend by Aesop

Those who will go to the Bible with an unprejudiced mind will discover that it is one of the great books of the world, full of beauty, humour, and aspiration, and disfigured, as great books often are, by occasional brutalities and crudities.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

Those like the tribes below Sometimes Sink their houses in the earth, and at other times have their flowrs leavil with the Surface of the earth; they are Generally built of boards and Covered with bark.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Closely allied to the Sakuna Pakshis are the Budubudikēs or Budubudukalas, a class of beggars and fortune-tellers, whose name is derived from the drum (budbuki) which they use when engaged in predicting future events.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

The Ankola bean is shorter and better-appearing than Mandheling, but otherwise bears a close resemblance.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

The absence of books on bread and cake baking, dessert cookery indicates that the present Apicius is not complete.]
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

Season with salt, pepper, bits of butter and chopped onion.
— from Standard Paper-Bag Cookery by Emma Paddock Telford

The mosaic roof of this chapel was burst open by a cannon-ball during the French bombardment of 1849, but the figure was uninjured.
— from Walks in Rome by Augustus J. C. (Augustus John Cuthbert) Hare

the opening of every new school synchronizes with the closing of a Taoist temple, and the priests of the cult are not only despised by others, but are coming to despise themselves.
— from The Reconciliation of Races and Religions by T. K. (Thomas Kelly) Cheyne

'No,' he said, 'a drop o' beer and a bit o' bread an' cheese, an' then git off to bed.'
— from Memoirs of a Surrey Labourer: A Record of the Last Years of Frederick Bettesworth by George Sturt

Some guzzlers are for devouring the butter at a meal, and finishing off with the cheese the same day; others contend for saving it up against Banyan Day , when there is nothing but beef and bread; and others, again, are for taking a very small bit of butter and cheese, by way of dessert, to each and every meal through the week.
— from White Jacket; Or, The World on a Man-of-War by Herman Melville

He was not a man of whom you could ask questions; yet I had hinted an inquiry once or twice in his presence, but only by a change of color and a strange vague restlessness had he shown that he understood my drift of meaning.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 81, July, 1864 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

For a moment the three stared at the unending wastes of brown and gray-green, belled over by a cloudless sapphire sky.
— from The Forbidden Trail by Honoré Morrow

So far as I am able to convey an idea, which I find it easier to understand than to express, I should judge of the ripening of the leaf by its thickening sufficiently; by the change of its color to a more yellowish green; by a certain mellow appearance, and protrusion of the web of the leaf, which I suppose to be occasioned by a contraction of the fibres; and other appearances as I might conceive to indicate an ultimate suspension of the vegetative functions." Cutting the Plants .
— from Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce by E. R. Billings

Over the Campagna hung white mists, that hovered longest where the Tiber rolled; but over the green mountains of Rocca Romana the woods were alight with sunbeams and the glancing streams ran sparkling through meadows, starred with dragon-flower and cyclamen, and shaded with heavy boughs of beach and chestnut.
— from The Hill of Venus by Nathan Gallizier

And as the boy drew from his dingy blouse a scrap of brown paper, enclosing a bit of bread and cheese, and laid it down beside him, the stream seemed to be dancing just before him at the tune he whistled; a swinging, whirling dance from shore to shore; a butterfly dance, through a setting of buttercups and daisies; with here and there a shaft of sunlight thrown upon it, where the thin clouds parted.
— from The Rival Campers Ashore; or, The Mystery of the Mill by Ruel Perley Smith