'Tis the common humour of them all, to contemn death, to wish for death, to confront death in this case, Quippe queis nec fera, nec ignis, neque praecipitium, nec fretum, nec ensis, neque laqueus gravia videntur ; 'Tis their desire (saith Tyrius) to die.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

“The Rôle of the Mageiroi in the Life of the Ancient Greeks” by E. M. Rankin, Chic., 1907, and “Roman Cooks” by C. G. Harcum, Baltimore, 1914, two monographs on this subject Cookery, Apician, as well as modern c., discussed in the critical review of the Apicius book —— examples of deceptive c. in Apicius, ℞ 6 , 7 , 9 , 17 , 229 , 230 , 384 , 429 —— of flavoring and spicing, ℞ 15 , 277 , 281 , 369 —— deserving special mention for ingenuity and excellence, ℞ 15 , 21 , 22 , 72 , 88 , 177 , 186 , 212 , 213 , 214 , 250 , 287 , 315 , 428 —— modern Jewish, resembling Apicius, ℞ 204 seq.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

Presently other "customers of all trades and professions" come dropping into the coffee house.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

"Just so-so," replied Tip, modestly; for he began to see certain defects in the construction of his man.
— from The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

Chops , properly CHAPS , the mouth, or cheeks; “down in the CHOPS ,” or “down in the mouth,” i.e. , sad or melancholy.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

It is also the amount of the customary dowry in the case of a marriage with a slave or with the widow or divorced wife of a raʿiyat .
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

Such an occurrence can be evidential only when the hair changes color demonstrably in the case of a witness.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

We can detect in the Constellation a natural local feeling against the upstart town of York, which had now drawn away almost every thing from the old Newark.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

The carriage drove into the courtyard, and Stepan Arkadyevitch rang loudly at the entrance where sledges were standing.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

But the famine was too hard for all other passions, and it is destructive to nothing so much as to modesty; for what was otherwise worthy of reverence was in this case despised; insomuch that children pulled the very morsels that their fathers were eating out of their very mouths, and what was still more to be pitied, so did the mothers do as to their infants; and when those that were most dear were perishing under their hands, they were not ashamed to take from them the very last drops that might preserve their lives: and while they ate after this manner, yet were they not concealed in so doing; but the seditious every where came upon them immediately, and snatched away from them what they had gotten from others; for when they saw any house shut up, this was to them a signal that the people within had gotten some food; whereupon they broke open the doors, and ran in, and took pieces of what they were eating almost up out of their very throats, and this by force: the old men, who held their food fast, were beaten; and if the women hid what they had within their hands, their hair was torn for so doing; nor was there any commiseration shown either to the aged or to the infants, but they lifted up children from the ground as they hung upon the morsels they had gotten, and shook them down upon the floor.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

Numerous springs boiling up here coursed down into the cañon from which they had just emerged, and fed the creek which ran through it.
— from Cruisings in the Cascades A Narrative of Travel, Exploration, Amateur Photography, Hunting, and Fishing by G. O. (George O.) Shields

Sometimes it was forged; sometimes second-hand; but however or wherever procured it was framed and conspicuously displayed in the "consulting" room.
— from Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations The Veil Lifted, and Light Thrown on Crime and its Causes, and Criminals and their Haunts. Facts and Disclosures. by William F. Howe

The best thing we can do is to clear out of Marut as fast as we can.
— from The Native Born; or, the Rajah's People by I. A. R. (Ida Alexa Ross) Wylie

It is to be added that the imperfect development of the visual organs of the peculiar amphipod, Cyclocaris Guilelmi , Chevreux, points to abyssal habits, as similar conditions do in the cases of other pelagic animals.
— from The Popular Science Monthly, August, 1900 Vol. 57, May, 1900 to October, 1900 by Various

The coachman had received orders to drive quick; and the hour of nine was just striking on the bell of an old clock at Chelsea when the carriage drove into the court-yard.
— from The King's Highway by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

But you will return, and the poor thing will be roused from her first sleep, and have to come down in the cold to let you in, for as for waking that Emma , you might as well try to arouse Lord Aberdeen to a sense of the honour of England.
— from Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various

It was startling to find the atmosphere of a college dormitory in the center of the slums.
— from A Man's World by Albert Edwards