In the same manner, at the present day, we see that very many European productions cover the ground in La Plata, New Zealand, and to a lesser degree in Australia, and have beaten the natives; whereas extremely few southern forms have become naturalised in any part of the northern hemisphere, though hides, wool, and other objects likely to carry seeds have been largely imported into Europe during the last two or three centuries from La Plata and during the last forty or fifty years from Australia.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

These were afterwards increased to ten, while the plebeians were contending for larger privileges; and subsequently five more were added.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Lo Navarrese ben suo tempo colse; fermo` le piante a terra, e in un punto salto` e dal proposto lor si sciolse.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

I had five rooms furnished in the most elegant style, and everything seemed to be calculated for love, pleasure, and good cheer.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Called for some papers at Whitehall for Mr. Downing, one of which was an Order of the Council for L1800 per annum, to be paid monthly; and the other two, Orders to the Commissioners of Customs, to let his goods pass free.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Just in the same manner as we see at the present day, that very many European productions cover the ground in La Plata, and in a lesser degree in Australia, and have to a certain extent beaten the natives; whereas extremely few southern forms have become naturalised in any part of Europe, though hides, wool, and other objects likely to carry seeds have been largely imported into Europe during the last two or three centuries from La Plata, and during the last thirty or forty years from Australia.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

Eccentrics and epicycles exploded Education a cause of melancholy Effects of love Election misconceived, cause of despair Element of fire exploded Emulation, hatred, faction, desire of revenge, causes of melancholy; their cure Envy and malice causes of melancholy; their antidote Epicurus vindicated Epicurus's remedy for melancholy Epicures, atheists, hypocrites how mad, and melancholy Epithalamium Equivocations of melancholy; of jealousy Eunuchs why kept, and where Evacuations, how they cause melancholy Exercise if immoderate, cause of melancholy; before meals wholesome; exercise rectified; several kinds, when fit; exercises of the mind Exotic and strange simples censured Extasies Eyes main instruments of love; love's darts, seats, orators, arrows, torches; how they pierce F. Face's prerogative, a most attractive part Fairies Fasting cause of melancholy; a cure of love-melancholy; abused, the devil's instrument; effects of it Fear cause of melancholy, its effects; fear of death, destinies foretold; a symptom of melancholy; sign of love-melancholy; antidote to fear Fenny fowl, melancholy Fiery devils Fire's rage Fish, what melancholy Fish good Fishes in love Fishing and fowling, how and when good exercise Flaxen hair a great motive of love Fools often beget wise men; by love become wise Force of imagination Friends a cure of melancholy Fruits causing melancholy; allowed Fumitory purgeth melancholy G. Gaming a cause of melancholy, his effects Gardens of simples where, to what end Gardens for pleasure General toleration of religion, by whom permitted, and why Gentry, whence it came first; base without means; vices accompanying it; true gentry, whence; gentry commended Geography commended Geometry, arithmetic, algebra, commended Gesture cause of love-melancholy Gifts and promises of great force amongst lovers God's just judgment cause of melancholy; sole cause sometimes Gold good against melancholy; a most beautiful object Good counsel a charm to melancholy; good counsel for lovesick persons; against melancholy itself; for such as are jealous Great men most part dishonest Gristle what Guts described H. Hand and paps how forcible in love-melancholy Hard usage a cause of jealousy Hatred cause of melancholy Hawking and hunting why good Head melancholy's causes; symptoms; its cure Hearing, what Heat immoderate, cause of melancholy Health a treasure Heavens penetrable; infinitely swift Hell where Hellebore, white and black, purgers of melancholy; black, its virtues and history Help from friends against melancholy Hemorrhage cause of melancholy Hemorrhoids stopped cause of melancholy Herbs causing melancholy; curing melancholy Hereditary diseases Heretics their conditions; their symptoms Heroical love's pedigree, power, extent; definition, part affected; tyranny Hippocrates' jealousy Honest objects of love Hope a cure of misery; its benefits Hope and fear, the Devil's main engines to entrap the world Hops good against melancholy Horseleeches how and when used in melancholy Hot countries apt and prone to jealousy How oft 'tis fit to eat in a day How to resist passions How men fall in love Humours, what they are Hydrophobia described Hypochondriacal melancholy; its causes inward, outward; symptom; cure of it Hypochondries misaffected, causes Hypocrites described I. Idleness a main cause of melancholy; of love-melancholy; of jealousy Ignorance the mother of devotion Ignorance commended Ignorant persons still circumvented Imagination what; its force and effects Imagination of the mother affects her infant Immaterial melancholy Immortality of the soul proved; impugned by whom Impediments of lovers Importunity and opportunity cause of love-melancholy; of jealousy Imprisonment cause of melancholy Impostures of devils; of politicians; of priests Impotency a cause of jealousy Impulsive cause of man's misery Incubi and succubi Inconstancy of lovers Inconstancy a sign of melancholy Infirmities of body and mind, what grievances they cause Injuries and abuses rectified Instrumental causes of diseases Instrumental cause of man's misery Interpreters of dreams Inundation's fury Inventions resulting from love Inward causes of melancholy Inward senses described Issues when used in melancholy J. Jealousy a symptom of melancholy; defined, described; of princes; of brute beasts; causes of it; symptoms of it; prognostics; cure of it Jests how and when to be used Jews' religious symptoms Joy in excess cause of melancholy K. Kings and princes' discontents Kissing a main cause of love-melancholy; a symptom of love-melancholy L. Labour, business, cure of love-melancholy; Lapis Armenus , its virtues against melancholy Lascivious meats to be avoided Laughter, its effects Laurel a purge for melancholy Laws against adultery Leo Decimus the pope's scoffing tricks Lewellyn prince of Wales, his submission Leucata petra the cure of lovesick persons Liberty of princes and great men, how abused Libraries commended Liver its site; cause of melancholy distempers, if hot or cold Loss of liberty, servitude, imprisonment, cause of melancholy Losses in general how they offend; cause of despair; how eased Love of gaming and pleasures immoderate, cause of melancholy Love of learning, overmuch study, cause of melancholy Love's beginning, object, definition, division; love made the world; love's power; in vegetables; in sensible creatures; love's power in devils and spirits; in men; love a disease; a fire; love's passions; phrases of lovers; their vain wishes and attempts; lovers impudent; courageous; wise, valiant, free; neat in apparel; poets, musicians, dancers; love's effects; love lost revived by sight; love cannot be compelled Love and hate symptoms of religious melancholy Lycanthropia described M. Madness described; the extent of melancholy; a symptom and effect of love-melancholy Made dishes cause melancholy Magicians how they cause melancholy; how they cure it Mahometans their symptoms Maids', nuns', and widows' melancholy Man's excellency, misery Man the greatest enemy to man Many means to divert lovers; to cure them Marriage if unfortunate cause of melancholy; best cure of love-melancholy; marriage helps; miseries; benefits and commendation Mathematical studies commended Medicines select for melancholy; against wind and costiveness; for love-melancholy Melancholy in disposition, melancholy equivocations; definition, name, difference; part and parties affected in melancholy, it's affection; matter; species or kinds of melancholy; melancholy an hereditary disease; meats causing it, &c.; antecedent causes; particular parts; symptoms of it; they are passionate above measure; humorous; melancholy, adust symptoms; mixed symptoms of melancholy with other diseases; melancholy, a cause of jealousy; of despair; melancholy men why witty; why so apt to laugh, weep, sweat, blush; why they see visions, hear strange noises; why they speak untaught languages, prophesy, &c. Memory his seat Menstruus concubitus causa melanc.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Good well-developed cats of certain colours fetch large prices, and are, if I may use the term, perpetual prize-winners.
— from Our Cats and All About Them Their Varieties, Habits, and Management; and for Show, the Standard of Excellence and Beauty; Described and Pictured by Harrison Weir

It consists of a silica tube 1 foot long, wound with a special resistance wire and efficiently lagged, and may be heated in safety to 1000° C. for long periods, and to 1200° for a short time.
— from Pyrometry: A Practical Treatise on the Measurement of High Temperatures by Charles R. (Charles Robert) Darling

All the accidents you read about in the newspapers come from loaded pistols and revolvers lying around loose; so we’ll cheat fate, and not load them till the last minute.
— from A Blundering Boy: A Humorous Story by Bruce Weston Munro

I know, father,” broke in Rachel, “when the climate grew too cold for leaf petticoats and the rest.
— from The Ghost Kings by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

The lady herself was kneeling at the foot of the bed; the moonlight came through the half-drawn curtains of the casement, and by its ray her pale, calm features looked paler, and yet more hushed. Evelyn, for she was the intruder, paused at the threshold till her mother rose from her devotions, and then she threw herself on Lady Vargrave's breast, sobbing as if her heart would break.
— from Alice, or the Mysteries — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

To this day in the western hills of Yorkshire, separating that county from Lancashire, persons are known by their pedigrees, and very often their surnames are generally unknown.
— from Old Country Life by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

He told me that he came from La Paz and that his father had a store there, but he preferred an open air life, so his father had bought him a concession of land here and sent him regular supplies of flour and other things, as well as money to pay the three Indians that worked for him, and llamas to carry the barley to La Paz.
— from Adventures in Bolivia by C. H. (Cecil Herbert) Prodgers