Et quidem flagitium vitavi fornicationis, at munditiae virginalis florem arcana cordis cogitatione foedavi.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Hence, at their dinner parties, whatever is poured out of the cups, or spirted from the mouth, no sooner falls than it dries up, and the servants who wait there do not catch cold from that kind of floor, although they may go barefoot.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

Horatio certainly came from Wittenberg to the funeral.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

The Sacred Cross, therefore, in heraldry is now known as a "Passion Cross" (Fig. 162) (or sometimes as a "long cross"), or, if upon steps or "grieces," the number of which needs to be specified, as a "Cross Calvary" (Fig. 163).
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Let us, on the contrary, confirm it by mutual offices; let the mind rouse and quicken the heaviness of the body, and the body stay and fix the levity of the soul: “Qui, velut summum bonum, laudat animac naturam, et, tanquam malum, naturam carnis accusat, profectd et animam carnatiter appetit, et carnem carnaliter fugit; quoniam id vanitate sentit humans, non veritate divina.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

In this way the meaning of the world is constantly changing for us, much as the surface of the earth is constantly under the influence of the weather.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

[Cloud.] — N. bubble, foam, froth, head, spume, lather, suds, spray, surf, yeast, barm[obs3], spindrift. cloud, vapor, fog, mist, haze, steam, geyser; scud, messenger, rack, nimbus; cumulus, woolpack[obs3], cirrus, stratus; cirrostratus, cumulostratus; cirrocumulus; mackerel sky, mare's tale, dirty sky; curl cloud; frost smoke; thunderhead.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Mrs. Bridget had pawn'd all the little stock of honour a poor chamber-maid was worth in the world, that she would get to the bottom of the affair in ten days; and it was built upon one of the most concessible postulata in nature: namely, that whilst my uncle Toby was making love to her mistress, the corporal could find nothing better to do, than make love to her—'And I'll let him as much as he will, said Bridget, to get it out of him.'
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

In the year 1471, [45] the 11th of Edward IV., Thomas, the bastard Fawconbridge, having assembled a riotous company of shipmen and other in Essex and Kent, came to London with a great navy of ships, near to the Tower; whereupon the mayor and aldermen, by consent of a common council, fortified all along the Thames side, from Baynard’s castle to the Tower, with armed men, guns, and other instruments of war, to resist the invasion of the mariners, whereby the Thames side was safely preserved and kept by the aldermen and other citizens that assembled thither in great numbers.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

The Emperor hath, by those four wives of his, twenty-two male children; the eldest of whom was called CHINKIN for the love of the good Chinghis Kaan, the first Lord of the Tartars.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

It was clear therefore that this simple form of pendulum would not do well for the large and varying arc required to be described, but that the theoretical requirements would be satisfied if the pendulum, instead of being suspended from a rigid rod, were suspended by a cord or spring or some elastic substance which would mould itself against two curved pieces of metal, C C , Fig.
— from Stargazing: Past and Present by Lockyer, Norman, Sir

Truedale was merely a primitive creature caring for his own!
— from The Man Thou Gavest by Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa) Comstock

In some instances these proved to be corrupt camp followers, in others ambitious and unscrupulous Southern men who made the Negroes stepping stones to power or pelf.
— from Light Ahead for the Negro by Edward A. (Edward Austin) Johnson

"I understand one thing, Honora, that you're too confoundedly clever for me," he declared.
— from A Modern Chronicle — Volume 05 by Winston Churchill

"The apostles," says Professor Westcott, "guided by the promised Spirit of truth, remained together in Jerusalem in close communion for a period long enough to shape a common narrative, and to fix it with requisite surroundings."
— from Who Wrote the Bible? : a Book for the People by Washington Gladden

The end of the bay towards Anaho may be called the civil compound, for it boasts the house of Kooamua, and close on the beach, under a great tree, that of the gendarme, M. Armand Aussel, with his garden, his pictures, his books, and his excellent table, to which strangers are made welcome.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 18 by Robert Louis Stevenson

The method was controlled by blank experiments, in which citric acid was taken as a convenient carbon compound for combustion.
— from Researches on Cellulose, 1895-1900 by C. F. (Charles Frederick) Cross

[232] Page 152 {152} Ferric chloride can form no less than four stable hydrates, viz.
— from The Phase Rule and Its Applications by Alexander Findlay

(of France) tomb at St. Denis, 12 Charlton , Wiltshire, 98 , 80 ceiling, 178 frieze, 182 , 168 Charterhouse , The, staircase at, 192 , 181 Charwelton Church, tomb in, 16 , 8 Chastleton , ceiling, 183 plan, 90 , 91 , 92 , 72 Chelvey Court, pew, 157 , 143 porch, 83 , 84 , 64 Cheney Court, 101 , 84 doorway, 87 , 68 Chenonceau , Château de, 230 Chest at St. Mary Overie, Southwark, 39 , X. Chester , the Rows at, 207 Chesterfield Church, Foljambe tombs, 218 , 203 pulpit, 221 , 208 Chevington , 239 Chichester tomb, North Pilton, 218 , 202 , LXXXI.
— from Early Renaissance Architecture in England A Historical & Descriptive Account of the Tudor, Elizabethan, & Jacobean Periods, 1500-1625 by J. Alfred (John Alfred) Gotch

He has caused vehement enthusiasm by reviving Christian customs fallen into desuetude during a century of revolutions.
— from The Religious Persecution in France 1900-1906 by J. Napier (Jane Napier) Brodhead