“Do you think the Count of Monte Cristo had ever been in France before he made this visit to Paris?” “To that question I can answer positively; no, sir, he had not, because he applied to me six months ago for the particulars he required, and as I did not know when I might again come to Paris, I recommended M. Cavalcanti to him.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

It is useless to criticise the broken metaphors of Plato, if the effect of the whole is to create a picture not such as can be painted on canvas, but which is full of life and meaning to the reader.
— from Gorgias by Plato

Apitiana, Ex Op || timis Qvibvs || dam authoribus diligen || ter ac nouiter constru || cta, authore Polyo || nimo Syngra || pheo. ||
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

The development of coal-power in the nineteenth century furnished the first means of assigning closer values to the elements; and the appearance of supersensual forces towards 1900 made this calculation a pressing necessity; since the next step became infinitely serious.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

This induced him to commit a parricide, not such as that of 1610 in the month of May, [29] but such as that of 1594 in the month of December, [30] and such as others which have been committed in other years and other months by other poor devils who had heard nonsense spoken."
— from Candide by Voltaire

The consequence o' th' crown, and must not foil The precious note of it with a base slave, A hilding for a livery, a squire's cloth, A pantler- not so eminent!
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

It is possible to conceive a people not subdivided into any castes or scale of ranks; in which the law, recognizing no privileges, should divide inherited property into equal shares; but which, at the same time, should be without knowledge and without freedom.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

In summer, when flowers are cheap and plentiful, never set the table without them if you can get nothing more than a button-hole bouquet to lay on John’s napkin.
— from Breakfast, Luncheon and Tea by Marion Harland

Your great anxiety for encouraging domestic manufactures might have influenced you in this respect, and you may rest assured—or even take my word for it—that as long as you have Popish colleges and Popish nunneries side by side, your semi-annual dividends of Jesuits and nuns, amongst the States of the Union, will be entirely satisfactory to you.
— from Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete by William Hogan

Towns grew into larger towns and cities; and Portsmouth, Newbury, Salem, Marblehead, Boston, Newport, New London, Hartford, Wethersfield, Middletown, New Haven, Fairfield, and Stamford became, in varying degrees, centers of an increasing population and of new business interests that brought New England into closer contact with the other colonies, with the West Indies, and with the Old [Pg 199] World.
— from The Fathers of New England: A Chronicle of the Puritan Commonwealths by Charles McLean Andrews

“They usually hunt in couples,” affirmed Paul, not showing any signs of alarm, though he clutched the hatchet a little more firmly in his right hand, and turned his head quickly from side to side, as though desirous of covering all the territory possible.
— from The Banner Boy Scouts Snowbound; or, A Tour on Skates and Iceboats by George A. Warren

of the proteid in three to four hours at 40° C., a perfectly neutral solution of the ferment, otherwise under exactly the same conditions, digested 76 per cent., and a 0.1 per cent.
— from On Digestive Proteolysis Being the Cartwright Lectures for 1894 by R. H. (Russell Henry) Chittenden

Several regional maps have also been updated to reflect boundary changes and place name spelling changes.
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

[421] And the Powers have certainly the right of veto in case a permanently neutralised State desires to increase its territory by acquiring land through cession from another State.
— from International Law. A Treatise. Volume 1 (of 2) Peace. Second Edition by L. (Lassa) Oppenheim