After these came the very skilful masters in cutting and polishing precious stones, and the chalchihuis, which resemble the emerald.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

But there are several things in it, which are not quite pure and independent of empirical sources: such as the concept of motion , that of impenetrability (upon which the empirical concept of matter rests), that of inertia , and many others, which prevent its being called a perfectly pure science of nature.
— from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant

The earnest man, surrounded, as ever, with a world of inconsistencies, can await patiently, patiently strive to do his work, in the midst of that.
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

Later writers, says Leake, make no mention of Cisthene; and Ptolemy, Pliny, Stephanus, agree in showing that Megiste and Dolichiste were the two principal islands on the coast of Lycia: the former word Megiste, greatest , well describing the island Kasteloryzo or Castel Rosso, as the latter word (longest) does that of Kakava.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

Pour cela, pas besoin de chercher beaucoup, toutes les sociétés d'entertainment, des plus grosses chaînes TV commerciales au plus petite start-up (STARTOP?), cherchent de nos jours à décrocher le jackpot en attirant les "hits" de "prospects"… Je me suis inspiré (!) au
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Maximum autem exemplum est iustitiae in hostem a maioribus nostris constitutum, cum a Pyrrho perfuga senatui est pollicitus se venenum regi daturum et eum necaturum, senatus et C. Fabricius perfugam Pyrrho dedidit.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Such an epidemic ravaged three crowded blocks in Elizabeth Street on the heels of the grippe last winter, and, when it had spent its fury, the death-maps in the Bureau of Vital Statistics looked as if a black hand had been laid across those blocks, over-shadowing in part the contiguous tenements in Mott Street, and with the thumb covering a particularly packed settlement of half a dozen houses in Mulberry Street.
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

He exists, so to speak, on a plan of numerous concentric circles, the most apparent of which is the small inmost circle, a personal puckish scepticism which can be easily aped if not imitated.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

(6) Clayton, H. H. "Influence of Rainfall on Commerce and Politics," Popular Science Monthly , LX (1901-2), 158-65. (7) Mitchell, Wesley C. Business Cycles.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

a miraculous bird dying in fire by its own act and springing up alive from its own ashes PHORBAS, a companion of Aeneas, whose form was assumed by Neptune in luring Palinuras the helmsman from his roost PHRYXUS, brother of Helle PINABEL, knight PILLARS OF HERCULES, two mountains—Calpe, now the Rock of Gibraltar, southwest corner of Spain in Europe, and Abyla, facing it in Africa across the strait PINDAR, famous Greek poet PINDUS, Grecian mountain PIRENE, celebrated fountain at Corinth PIRITHOUS, king of the Lapithae in Thessaly, and friend of Theseus, husband of Hippodamia PLEASURE, daughter of Cupid and Psyche PLEIADES, seven of Diana's nymphs, changed into stars, one being lost PLENTY, the Horn of PLEXIPPUS, brother of Althea PLINY, Roman naturalist PLUTO, the same as Hades, Dis, etc.
— from The Age of Chivalry by Thomas Bulfinch

Et cum conuenerint ad potandum primo spargunt de potu illi imagini, quæ est super caput domini: postea alijs imaginibus per ordinem: postea exit minister domum cum cipho et potu, et spargit ter ad meridiem, qualibet vice flectendo genu; et hoc ad reuerentiam ignis: postea ad Orientem ad reuerentiam aeris:
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 02 by Richard Hakluyt

With a most admirable unanimity— nemine contradicente , as Parliamentary procedure says—the Canadian Parliament decided at once, at the very outbreak of the hostilities, to organize a great army to go and defend the Empire of which the Dominion is an important component part, and Civilization in peril from the Teutonic crushing wave of barbarism, let loose over Belgium and France.
— from England, Canada and the Great War by L. G. (Louis Georges) Desjardins

Brigitte des Saults Ste. Brigitte des Saults Yamaska Urbain Beaudet † St. Bruno Montarville Chambly A. P. Paré St. Camille St. Camille Wolfe Flavien Milette St. Canute St. Canute Two Mountains John Hanna St. Casimir St. Casimir Portneuf Narcisse Paré † St. Catherines, East Fossambault Portneuf Joseph Maloney * St. Catharines, West Grantham Lincoln W. L. Copeland St. Célestin Nicolet C. E. Houde * † St. Césaire Rouville C. Dorval † St. Charles, River Richelieu St. Charles St. Hyacinthe J. E. LeBlanc St. Charles, Riv.
— from List of Post Offices in Canada, with the Names of the Postmasters ... 1865 by Canada. Post Office Department

p -digallic acid methyl ester Pentamethoxybiphenylmethylolide carboxylic acid methyl ester Pentoxybiphenylmethylolide Pentoxybiphenylmethylolide carboxylic acid Phenanthraquinone Phenolsulphonate sodium
— from Synthetic Tannins, Their Synthesis, Industrial Production and Application by Georg Grasser

It was a clean and pleasant place surrounded by settles of black Welsh oak.
— from The Black Diamond by Francis Brett Young

Tom Gregory was a youth of about nineteen, who had not passed through the whole course of a doctor’s education, but who was a clever fellow, and better able to cut and carve and physic poor suffering humanity than many an older man who wrote M.D. after his name.
— from Fast in the Ice: Adventures in the Polar Regions by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne