Q.E.D. Note.—This proposition is comprehended much more clearly from what we have said in the note to II.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

Most of the remainder were Japan firms, amongst whom Aspinall, Cornes & Co., Macpherson, Marshall & Co., were the foremost English, and Walsh, Hall & Co., the leading American firms.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

Do not call me Mrs Clare, but Tess, as before.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

Besides, there were a copper armlet, copper thyati (charm cylinder), nine copper plates, on which letters were engraved, a copper mokka mattoo (copper plate bearing [ 220 ] figures of deities), a piece of thread coloured red, white and black, for tying yantrams, a tin case containing kappu (a black substance), a ball of human hair, and a pen-knife.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

He that could make me contradict the senses, would have me by the throat; he could not make me go further back.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

The Christians made many converts the Jews but few.
— 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

With beauties so maturely fair, Affecting, mild, and manifold, May girlish charms mo more compare Than apples green with apples gold.
— from The Angel in the House by Coventry Patmore

Many such causes, much more could I say, But that for provender my cattle stay: The sun declines, and I must needs away.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

In return for all this they look after my fifty acres of coconuts, make my copra, do my housework, cooking, and laundry, and provide me with all the native food I can use.
— from Faery Lands of the South Seas by James Norman Hall

Computers, mainframes, mini computers, or millions of personal computers - they do in fact control and monitor our every activity, for better or for worse.
— from Terminal Compromise by Winn Schwartau

Clusters marketable; moderately compact or loose.
— from Manual of American Grape-Growing by U. P. Hedrick

A Monsignore cordiall mo mio consorte le Duca de Millano.
— from Christina of Denmark, Duchess of Milan and Lorraine, 1522-1590 by Julia Cartwright

THE PRESCOTT COMPANY MENOMINEE, MICHIGAN COPYRIGHTED 1910 D. CLINT
— from The Evolution of Modern Band Saw Mills for Sawing Logs by D. Clint Prescott

"You call me major, Chainbearer, while you refuse to accept the same title for yourself."
— from The Chainbearer; Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper

At length one day Coningsby met Madame Colonna in the vestibule before dinner.
— from Coningsby; Or, The New Generation by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield