“Give me your views;” said the comptroller, “either on paper or ‘viva voce’.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Chronology, etc., of Peking.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

With the Musgroves, there was the happy chat of perfect ease; with Captain Harville, the kind-hearted intercourse of brother and sister; with Lady Russell, attempts at conversation, which a delicious consciousness cut short; with Admiral and Mrs Croft, everything of peculiar cordiality and fervent interest, which the same consciousness sought to conceal; and with Captain Wentworth, some moments of communications continually occurring, and always the hope of more, and always the knowledge of his being there.
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen

Charitas et omnium poetarum Numina, Oro te, ne me male capias.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

Chile y el Río de la Plata y chigüil en otras partes.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

No hay árbol como el ombú para formar umbrosas alamedas o avenidas arboladas.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

As Messer Amerigo's children grew up, there grew up with them a daughter of his, called Violante, a fair and dainty damsel, who, her father tarrying overmuch to marry her, became by chance enamoured of Pietro and loving him and holding his manners and fashions in great esteem, was yet ashamed to discover this to him.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

Such recognition of Nature one finds to be the chief element of Paganism; recognition of Man, and his Moral Duty, though this too is not wanting, comes to be the chief element only in purer forms of religion.
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

As regards my own labours in the critical examination of pure reason, which were occasioned by Hume's sceptical teaching, but went much further and embraced the whole field of pure theoretical reason in its synthetic use and, consequently, the field of what is called metaphysics in general; I proceeded in the following manner with respect to the doubts raised by the Scottish philosopher touching the notion of causality.
— from The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant

The special vocabularies of the preceding lessons contain, exclusive of proper names, about six hundred words.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

This device, curiously enough, once put the life of the Claimant in jeopardy.
— from The Romance of Madame Tussaud's by John Theodore Tussaud

They are not remarkable for cleanliness either of person or apparel.
— from The Jew, The Gypsy and El Islam by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

It is powerful, uniting in its behalf the combined efforts of politicians of all parties, who are connected with the asphalt corporations as stockholders and officers.
— from Chicago, Satan's Sanctum by L. O. Curon

Some of the larger groups, such as Sporozoa , Cestoda , Trematoda and Acanthocephala , consist entirely of parasitic species, and parasitism even occurs among the vertebrates ( Myxine ).
— from The Animal Parasites of Man by Fred. V. (Frederick Vincent) Theobald

The less volatile portions of crude beech-tar creasote contains ethers of pyrogallol, methyl-pyrogallol, and propyl-pyrogallol, from which these bodies may be obtained by the action of hydrochloric acid under pressure.
— from A Text-book of Tanning A treatise on the conversion of skins into leather, both practical and theoretical. by H. R. (Henry Richardson) Procter

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— from Beadle's Dime Song Book No. 3 A Collection of New and Popular Comic and Sentimental Songs. by Various

For the effectual and thorough completion of the general design, we thus see the necessity for a repulsion of limited capacity—a separative something which, on withdrawal of the diffusive Volition, shall at the same time allow the approach, and forbid the junction, of the atoms; suffering them infinitely to approximate, while denying them positive contact; in a word, having the power— up to a certain epoch —of preventing their coalition , but no ability to interfere with their coalescence in any respect or degree .
— from Eureka: A Prose Poem by Edgar Allan Poe

The universal employment of mural painting in Byzantine churches, and the consequent exclusion of painted glass, rendered the use of the large windows which the Gothic architects employed quite inadmissible; and in such a climate very much smaller openings sufficed to admit all the light that was required.
— from A History of Architecture in all Countries, Volume 1, 3rd ed. From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by James Fergusson

The subject is one to which in the progress of this work I shall have more than one occasion to return; but inasmuch as a sentimental opinion prevails that an increase of poverty and the consequent enactment of poor-laws was the result of the suppression of the religious houses, and that adequate relief had been previously furnished by these establishments, it is necessary to say a few words for the removal of an impression which is as near as possible the reverse of the truth.
— from The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) by James Anthony Froude