Corn On The Cob Corn on the cob could be eliminated so far as ever having to eat it in formal company is concerned, since it is never served at a luncheon or a dinner; but, if you insist on eating it at home or in a restaurant, to attack it with as little ferocity as possible, is perhaps the only direction to be given, since at best it is an ungraceful performance and to eat it greedily a horrible sight!
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

'Then go quickly,' rejoined he; 'and I prithee let make a good fire, so I may warm me as soon as I come in, for that I am grown so cold I can scarce feel myself.'
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

Now, after your comment, I can speak openly.
— from The Trial by Franz Kafka

VII 55 There fairely them receives a gentle Squire, Of milde demeanure, and rare courtesie, Right cleanly clad in comely sad attire; In word and deede that shew'd great modestie, And knew his good ° to all of each degree, 60 Hight Reverence.
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

By it, at its end, was a vessel like a font cut in carved stone, also full of pure water.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

I confess I can see no à priori reason for the exception.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

The fact that give , etc., in such phrases as can give , are infinitives may be seen by comparing “I can strike ” with “I am able to strike ,” “I may strike ” with “I am permitted to strike ,” “I must strike ” with “I am obliged to strike ,” and so on.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

Among the Latuka of Central Africa the earth on which a drop of blood has fallen at childbirth is carefully scraped up with an iron shovel, put into a pot along with the water used in washing the mother, and buried tolerably deep outside the house on the left-hand side.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

We have seen in the chapters on “The Benevolent Assimilation Proclamation” and “The Iloilo Fiasco” that, in the Philippines at any rate, no matter how mellifluously pacific it may have sounded at home—no matter how soothing to the troubled doubts of the national conscience—the Benevolent Assimilation Proclamation of December 21, 1898, was recognized both by the Eighth Army Corps and by Aguinaldo’s people as a call to arms—a signal to the former to get ready for the work of “civilizing with a Krag”; a signal to the latter to gird up their loins for the fight to the death for government of their people, by their people, for their people; and that the yearning benevolence of said proclamation was calculated strikingly to remind the Filipinos of Spain’s previous traditional yearnings for the welfare of Cuba, indignantly cut short by us—yearnings “to spare the great island from the danger of premature [ 284 ] independence” 1 which that decadent monarchy could not even help repeating in the swan-song wherein she sued to President McKinley for peace.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

This remarkable process is known as coagulation , or the clotting of blood; and the liquid which separates from the clot is called serum.
— from A Practical Physiology: A Text-Book for Higher Schools by Albert F. (Albert Franklin) Blaisdell

Of course, I could step in and take entire financial responsibility, but if I did this it might be said that I had put up a game, to enrich myself at the expense of the poor who invested their money because I stood back of the enterprise.
— from Dick Hamilton's Steam Yacht; Or, A Young Millionaire and the Kidnappers by Howard Roger Garis

When his early cures in Capernaum stirred the ardent feelings of the multitudes, he took occasion to withdraw to other towns and allow popular feeling to cool.
— from The Life of Jesus of Nazareth: A Study by Rush Rhees

For a short time during Montrose’s ascendancy in the Highlands, and for a longer period towards the close of the reign of Charles II., Castle Stalker was again in the possession of the Stewarts; but at the Revolution the Campbells had it all their own way; they repossessed themselves of the castle, and it has remained theirs ever since.
— from Nether Lochaber The Natural History, Legends, and Folk-lore of the West Highlands by Stewart, Alexander, Rev.

As for those who object that “what all aim at is not necessarily good,” I confess I cannot see much in what they say, because what all think we say is .
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

In those days when men, "clad in complete steel," did their fighting with spear, sword, and battle-axe, and were so enamoured of hard blows and blood-letting that in the intervals of war they spent their time seeking combat and adventure, much more of the startling and romantic naturally came to pass than can be looked for in these days of the tyranny of commerce and the dominion of "villanous saltpetre."
— from Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 06 (of 15), French by Charles Morris