He can also cure it by rubbing the patient’s clothing and saying puyra sálak .
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

So strictly speaking, there is no such thing as a counsel acknowledged by the court, and anyone who comes before this court as counsel is basically no more than a barrack room lawyer.
— from The Trial by Franz Kafka

Yet these laws serve to keep people continually reminded of the custom, and [pg 024] the imperative necessity on their parts to conform to it: and all this in support of the great principle which stands at the beginning of all civilisation: any custom is better than none.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

After the defeat of Cadesia, a country intersected by rivers and canals might have opposed an insuperable barrier to the victorious cavalry; and the walls of Ctesiphon or Madayn, which had resisted the battering-rams of the Romans, would not have yielded to the darts of the Saracens.
— 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

Admiralty Charts are charts issued by the hydrographic department of the Admiralty of Britain; they are prepared by specially appointed surveyors and draughtsmen, and besides being supplied to every ship in the fleet, are sold to the general public at prices much less than their cost.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

I might cavil and contest it, but I prefer to keep silence to admire and adore.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

I will have less cattle on the hoof, but I hear of hogs, cows, and calves, in Barnwell and the Colombia districts.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

So Herod went to Samaria, which was then in a tumult, and settled the city in peace; after which at the [Pentecost] festival, he returned to Jerusalem, having his armed men with him: hereupon Hyrcanus, at the request of Malichus, who feared his reproach, forbade them to introduce foreigners to mix themselves with the people of the country while they were purifying themselves; but Herod despised the pretense, and him that gave that command, and came in by night.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

It might perhaps be called a compositum ideale, but not a compositum reale.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

[104] "Again, how can the Relative be conceived as coming into being?"
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation Including Some Strictures Upon the Theories of Rev. Henry L. Mansel and Mr. Herbert Spencer by Jesse Henry Jones

Yet there were portions of the time, when he was comparatively comfortable, and conversed intelligently; but his mind seemed to revert to former scenes, and he tried to amuse me with stories of his boyhood—his college days—his imprisonment in France, and his early missionary life.
— from Lives of the Three Mrs. Judsons by Arabella M. Willson

We will correct and complete it by means of the more recent researches of English explorers.
— from Manual of Oriental Antiquities by Ernest Babelon

Daniel Cooper and Co., Insurance Brokers, returned to his printer, who asked this time for £44.
— from My Austrian Love The History of the Adventures of an English Composer in Vienna. Written in the Trenches by Himself by Maxime Provost

Most people, looking back at their years of childhood, are chiefly impressed by the fact that they remember very little of what then happened.
— from Psychology and parenthood by H. Addington (Henry Addington) Bruce

Yet of Clark alone can it be said that he did a particular piece of work which without him would have remained undone.
— from The Winning of the West, Volume 2 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783 by Theodore Roosevelt

When the fat constituting a candle is burned, what becomes of it?
— from The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock by Cameron, Charles Alexander, Sir

The town itself presented an extraordinary collection of strong contrasts: there were wooden sheds, and tents, and mud hovels, mixed up with vast stores and large dwelling-houses; while carts, and waggons, and coaches of every variety of build were moving about in all directions, among people from every part of Europe—Germans, Italians, French, Greeks, and English—the latter, of course, predominating as to numbers; Yankees, with their keen, intelligent looks; Californians, in their serapes; Mexicans, with their laced breeches and cuffs; and Chilians, in broad-brimmed hats; Sandwich Islanders, and Negroes from every part of Africa; Chinese, with their long tails and varied coloured robes; and Malays and other people from the East.
— from A Voyage round the World A book for boys by William Henry Giles Kingston