A curious crowd lingered restlessly, people coming and going but the crowd remaining, both on the Chobham and Horsell bridges.
— from The War of the Worlds by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

4. Pontius C. Caesaris legatus, referente Plinio, lib. 35. cap.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Covered coffin, lined, ruffled, plate of inscription, mattrass, sheet and pillow 4 19 0 Pall 7 s. 6 d. ; 2 porters, gowns, staves, and for bands & gloves 30 s. 1 19 6 Four gentlemen’s cloaks, crape bands and gloves 1 l. 18 s. ; attending ceremony 20 s. 2 18 0 Hearse and coach, pairs 3 l. 12 s. ; velvets for ditto 21 s. ; 2 cloaks and bands 11 s. 5 4 0 Six pages, bands, gloves, truncheons, wands, 62 s. ; fetching company 9 s. 3 11 0 Paid 10 men’s allowance 25 s. ; stone 10 s. ; turnpike, gravedigger 4 s. 1 19 0 £ 20 10 6 No. 4. 268 Smooth elm, polished nails, inscription, lined, mattrass, sheet, and pillow 4 10 0 Pall 7 s. ; 4 crape bands; 6 ladies’ hoods and gloves 2 17 0 Attending 5 s. ; dues at church 18 s. ; 5 men’s allowance 6 s. 6 d. 1 9 6 £ 8 16 6 To the Executor of —— ——, Esq. Dr to —— ——.
— from A supplementary report on the results of a special inquiry into the practice of interment in towns. by Edwin Chadwick

A hodiè caput, Cras lætum roseo promet ab æquore.
— from The Odes of Casimire, Translated by G. Hils by Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski

"In these circumstances, Christophe," la Renaudie put in, "we must neglect no means of strengthening our party—for there is a party on the side of the Reformation, the party of offended rights, of the nobles who are sacrificed to the Guises, of the old army leaders so shamefully tricked at Fontainebleau, whence the Cardinal banished them by erecting gibbets to hang those who should ask the King for the price of their outfit and arrears of pay."
— from The Works of Honoré de Balzac: About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita, and Other Stories by Honoré de Balzac

Conference at Embassy at 10.20 to apportion work of mission.... Made exhaustive inspection of city: Washington Memorial, Capitol, Congress, Congressional Library, River Potomac, baseball grounds, Federal Museum and the like.
— from While I Remember by Stephen McKenna

coscienza che lo ritenesse; perchè in un petto d'un uomo facinoroso, che si teneva la sorella, ch' aveva morti
— from Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III by John Addington Symonds

These were: Christiania, Copenhagen, Leipsic, Rome, Paris, London and Edinburgh.
— from The World's Great Men of Music: Story-Lives of Master Musicians by Harriette Brower

—————————————————————————————- LIST OF VEGETABLES DISPLAYED FOR SALE IN BOONE ROAD MARKET, SHANGHAI, APRIL 6TH, 1900, WITH PRICES EXPRESSED IN U. S. CURRENCY.— ————————————————————————————- Cents Lotus roots, per lb.
— from Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan by F. H. (Franklin Hiram) King