He directs himself to be buried with certain eccentric ceremonies and precautions against his coming to life, with which I need not bore you, and that's all—except—' and this ends the story.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

And when a pestilence attacked the people of Selinus, by reason of the bad smells arising from the adjacent river, so that the men died and the women bore dead children, Empedocles contrived a plan, and brought into the same channel two other rivers at his own expense; and so, by mixing their waters with that of the other river, he sweetened the stream.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

With the same annual expense of labour and commodities, Europe can annually purchase about three times the quantity of plate which it could have purchased at that time.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

SYN: Free, gentle, refined, polished, generous, bountiful, catholic, enlarged, copious, ample, profuse, large, handsome, munificent, abundant, noble-minded, bounteous, tolerant, plentiful.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Tum primum Comitia e campo ad patres translata sunt.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

If the end which the utilitarian doctrine proposes to itself were not, in theory and in practice, acknowledged to be an end, nothing could ever convince any person that it was so.
— from Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill

[79] George Whitefield, pronounced Hwit'field (1714-1770), a celebrated English clergyman and pulpit orator, one of the founders of Methodism.
— from Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

From the following passage extracted from Facciolati, it would seem, however, that German critics repudiate this idea: "De barito clamore bellico, seu, ut quaedam habent exemplaria, bardito , nihil audiuimus nunc in Germaniâ: nisi hoc dixerimus, quòd bracht , vel brecht , milites Germani appellare consueverunt; concursum videlicet certantium, et clamorem ad pugnam descendentium; quem bar, bar, bar , sonuisse nonnulli affirmant.
— from The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus by Cornelius Tacitus

Relative sentences which are not a part of the quotation, but an addition of the writer’s, or which are a circumlocution equivalent to a substantive, are marked by the indicative ( 1729 ): as, Condrūsōs, Eburōnēs, Caeroesōs, Paemānōs, quī ūnō nōmine Germānī appellantur, arbitrārī ad XL mīlia , 2, 4, 10, that they reckoned the Condrusians, Eburonians, Caeroesians and Paemanians (who are all called by one name Germans) at forty thousand .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

It was not the practice for a king to take on his predecessor's chaplain and the latter could not, like a Lamaist or Catholic ecclesiastic, claim any permanent supernatural powers.
— from Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 by Eliot, Charles, Sir

Along each of these branches the cells, each containing a polyp, are grouped alternately.
— from The Ocean World: Being a Description of the Sea and Its Living Inhabitants. by Louis Figuier

And that our common English catechism, and Paræus or Ursine, and many such who use that common easy method, are more truly methodical, than most that pretend to greater accurateness (though I much commend the great industry of such as Dudley, Fenner, Gomarus, and especially George Sohnius).
— from A Christian Directory, Part 3: Christian Ecclesiastics by Richard Baxter

By the aid of clinical experimentation covering a period of years and by diligent search among anatomies and physiologies, we have arrived at the conclusions indicated in succeeding statements.
— from Technic and Practice of Chiropractic by Joy Maxwell Loban

There lies Frank on his cot, with blanched countenance, eyes closed, and pale lips smiling, as if in dreams.
— from The Drummer Boy by J. T. (John Townsend) Trowbridge

If a man chooses to call every composition a poem which is rhyme, or measure, or both, I must leave his opinion uncontroverted.
— from English literary criticism by Charles Edwyn Vaughan

This lid opens upon a hinge, and presents to view, underneath, a square box, divided by bars of gold into nine separate compartments, each containing a pure specimen of the varieties of one found in the country.
— from Finger-Ring Lore: Historical, Legendary, Anecdotal by Jones, William, F.S.A.

The metal itself has not been isolated, but the properties of its compounds correspond closely with those of the corresponding ekaboron compounds, as predicted by Mendeléeff.
— from History of Chemistry, Volume 2 (of 2) From 1850 to 1910 by T. E. (Thomas Edward) Thorpe