that the water of the Caribbean Sea is so transparent that corals and fish are discernible at a depth of sixty fathoms.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

It helps all blows and bruises, and to consolidate all fractures and dislocations.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

Accounts are squared, houses cleaned, fresh paper ‘door-gods’ pasted on the front doors, strips of red paper with characters implying happiness, wealth, good fortune, longevity, etc., stuck on the doorposts or the lintel, tables, etc., covered with red cloth, and flowers and decorations displayed everywhere.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

The Colonel asked for a day to consider his answer.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

Slushy green undergrowth Where the roach swim— Here we keep our larder, Cool and full and dim.
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

v [A3S; b] earn a certain amount for a day’s work.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

There was ice-cream,—actually two dishes of it, pink and white,—and cake and fruit and distracting French bonbons, and, in the middle of the table, four great bouquets of hot-house flowers!
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

Sheer horror cleared the coast; As fogs are driven by the wind, that valorous host Melted, dispersed to all the quarters four, Clean panic-stricken by that monstrous roar.
— from Poems by Victor Hugo

The sooner a man learns he isn't going to be coddled, and he needn't expect a lot of free grub and, uh, all these free classes and flipflop and doodads for his kids unless he earns 'em, why, the sooner he'll get on the job and produce—produce—produce!
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

The simple facts that with fifteen ships he forced eighteen to abandon a blockade, relieved the invested army, strengthened his own crews, and fought a decisive action, make an impression which [464] does not need to be diminished in the interests of truth.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

Cotlini and Fantazini ; Ann. di Chim.
— from Legal Chemistry A Guide to the Detection of Poisons, Examination of Tea, Stains, Etc., as Applied to Chemical Jurisprudence by Alfred Naquet

He was a fine-looking man, with what some thought a stern and forbidding, but what we should call a firm and decided look.
— from Liverpool a few years since: by an old stager by James Aspinall

A certain orgiastic licence crept in, an unbridling of the physical appetites, which has ever been a source of sorrow and anger to the most earnest Christians and even led the Puritans of the seventeenth century to condemn all festivals as diabolical.
— from Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan by Clement A. Miles

My diary of July 10 states: "Working party in the evening with Sergeant Clews—carrying ammunition from a dump near White Château to a Brigade dump further on to the left, behind Congreve Walk.
— from At Ypres with Best-Dunkley by Thomas Hope Floyd

Whereas you, sir, are known to be cautious and careful, and farseeing and discreet."
— from Blind Love by Wilkie Collins

This waste of double aims, this seeking to satisfy two unreconciled ideals, has wrought sad havoc with the courage and faith and deeds of ten thousand thousand people,—has sent them often wooing false gods and invoking false means of salvation, and at times has even seemed about to make them ashamed of themselves.
— from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

C o nflítt o , a conflict, a fight, a discomfiture.
— from Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues by John Florio

This malign influence is of every degree—from the undesigned yet real injury which is done to others by the merely slothful or indifferent man, who never, as he says, "intended to injure any one," and "never thought" he was doing so, but who, nevertheless, injures many a cause, and freezes and discourages many a heart, by his selfishness in not thinking and not doing;—up to the injury which is done by the cool, designing villain, who, in his plots and plans to sacrifice others to himself, has reached the utmost limit which distinguishes the bad man from the demon.
— from Parish Papers by Norman Macleod

Near the south-west extremity of the park, on lofty ground, stands the house, commanding a fine and distant prospect.
— from Survey of the High Roads of England and Wales. Part the First. Comprising the counties of Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Hants, Wilts, Dorset, Somerset, Devon, and Cornwall. etc. by Edward S. Mogg