They were both so much moved that they cried aloud like eagles or vultures with crooked talons that have been robbed of their half fledged young by peasants.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

A singular institution, peculiar to Siam, Cambodia, and Laos, exists in a second king, slightly inferior to the other, and having a sort of reflected authority, the limits of which are not easily defined.
— from Travels in the Central Parts of Indo-China (Siam), Cambodia, and Laos (Vol. 1 of 2) During the Years 1858, 1859, and 1860 by Henri Mouhot

2 [A; b6(1)] cook a little extra staple for s.o. not prepared for.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Jesus Christ at last , etc.—See Mark xii.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

Though I shall have occasion to consider this more at-large when I come to treat of Words and their use, yet I could not avoid to take thus much notice here of the NAMES OF MIXED MODES; which being fleeting and transient combinations of simple ideas, which have but a short existence anywhere but in the minds of men, and there too have no longer any existence than whilst they are thought on, have not so much anywhere the appearance of a constant and lasting existence as in their names: which are therefore, in this sort of ideas, very apt to be taken for the ideas themselves.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

Walter Simmons MY parents thought that I would be As great as Edison or greater: For as a boy I made balloons And wondrous kites and toys with clocks And little engines with tracks to run on And telephones of cans and thread.
— from Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters

Madagascar is an Island larger than Great-Britain , most of it within the Tropick of Capricorn , and lays East from the Eastern Side of Africa :
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

But the genius of Amrou soon renewed the maritime communication which had been attempted or achieved by the Pharaohs the Ptolemies, or the Caesars; and a canal, at least eighty miles in length, was opened from the Nile to the Red Sea.
— 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

Al rededor remueven el ramaje multitud de cuadrúpedos, y los inquietos zambos (monos) corren saltando de árbol en árbol a atisbar con curiosidad al transeunte, las hembras con los hijuelos cargados a la espalda, [3] y todos juntos en familia, [4] chiflando y arrojando ramas secas; mientras más a lo lejos
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Flesh very thin, tough, becoming whitish; bell-shaped then convex, at length expanded, umbonate, at length depressed round the conical, prominent umbo, moist, virgate or streaked with innate fibrils radiating from the center, otherwise almost even, smoky-mouse color, opaque, margin naked.
— from Toadstools, mushrooms, fungi, edible and poisonous; one thousand American fungi How to select and cook the edible; how to distinguish and avoid the poisonous, with full botanic descriptions. Toadstool poisons and their treatment, instructions to students, recipes for cooking, etc., etc. by Charles McIlvaine

At length M. Dantès said, in a mild but determined tone: "Espérance, my son, you can, at least, enlighten me upon a few points, and I request, nay, I command you to do so.
— from Edmond Dantès by Edmund Flagg

She had begged to be allowed to come, and Lady Emma had given in, little suspecting the girl’s real motive of hoping, by some innocent tact and diplomacy, to help the position, perhaps to “throw them together,” as Eira expressed it, seeing that it was almost a case of “three being no company.”
— from The Laurel Walk by Mrs. Molesworth

Cohn, J. E 18th Infantry Coleman, Henry 18th Infantry Cornelius, Samuel B 26th Infantry Cauffman, Albert Lieutenant E 33d Infantry Coleman, Isaac D 42nd Infantry Cohen, A. H 46th Infantry Coleman, J. 56th Infantry Cohn, Friedrich C
— from The American Jew as Patriot, Soldier and Citizen by Simon Wolf

He has a general supervision of all public schools, colleges, and literary examinations, within the province.
— from Embassy to the Eastern Courts of Cochin-China, Siam, and Muscat In the U. S. Sloop-of-war Peacock, David Geisinger, Commander, During the Years 1832-3-4 by Edmund Roberts

Unable to endure the riot, And wishing for a little quiet, The sickman raised his head, And said— Gentlemen, I do beseech ye, cease your pother, Nor any more with me your wise heads bother, Scratching your wigs, Like sapient pigs; Whate'er you may decide is my disease, I humbly do conceive a little ease From your infernal noise and chatter.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 342, November 22, 1828 by Various

Article 2 requires that:— “Ces peines seront appliquées par les Tribunaux de l’État conformément aux lois en vigueur.”
— from Correspondence and Report from His Majesty's Consul at Boma Respecting the Administration of the Independent State of the Congo [and Further Correspondence] by Roger Casement

Every object that could create noise and din was brought into use, among which were the detonations of powder, which in the absence of guns was confined in such a way as to cause a loud explosion, and bells of every size were rung, the people seeming determined to make up in noise the deficiency of population, for at that time Montgomery was nothing more than a small town.
— from Makers and Romance of Alabama History by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Riley

It had not been possible for me to reproduce exactly the composition of the original ring, and as I believed that the work was to be done in order to comfort an invalid, and I was getting no profit, but on the contrary a little extra work out of it, I made two new rings, lettered them according to the original and gave them to my customer.
— from The Case of the Golden Bullet by Auguste Groner

Even in Ulster, the province in which, as we have already remarked, the peculiarities of the Irish character are least exhibited, not only are the cabins, and even the farm-houses, deformed within and without by accumulations [Pg 365] of filth, which the least exertion would remove, but the land itself is suffered to waste a great portion of its productive power.
— from The White Slaves of England by John C. Cobden