But in that case Marco shall pay 500 lire to Cousin Nicolo or his male heir.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Methinks I am a prophet new inspir'd, And thus expiring do foretell of him: His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last, For violent fires soon burn out themselves; Small showers last long, but sudden storms are short; He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes; With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder; Light vanity, insatiate cormorant, Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Fire and steam, and smoke, and red light; a hiss, a crash, a bell, and a shriek; Louisa put into one carriage, Mrs. Sparsit put into another: the little station a desert speck in the thunderstorm.
— from Hard Times by Charles Dickens

We are certainly making some progress.
— from The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

a brat, child, MD, S3, PP; brolle , P; brawl , ND.—Cp.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

The stranger stretched out his hand to the old man, and said, "I want nothing but to enjoy for once a country dish; cook me some potatoes, in the way you always have them, and then I will sit down at your table and eat them with pleasure."
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

W. 478 Pierce, O.W., Sr. 500 Pupke, John F. 495 Purcell, Joseph 476 Reid, Fred 495 Reid, Thomas 493 , 495 Roome, Col. William P. 499 Russell, James C. 478 Sanborn, James S. 500 Schilling, A. 504 Schotten, Julius J. 504 , 512 Schotten, William 504 Seelye, Frank R. 512 Sielcken, Hermann 476 , 519 Simmonds, H. 477 Sinnot, J.B. 504 Smith, L.B. 493 Smith, M.E. 504 Sprague, Albert A. 500 Stephens, Henry A. 500 Stoffregen, Charles 504 Stoffregen, C.H. 447 Taylor, James H. 477 Thomson, A.M. 500 Van Loan, Thomas 498 Weir, Ross W. 447 , 512 Westfeldt, George 479 Widlar, Francis 500 Wilde, Samuel 493 Withington, Elijah 493 Woolson, Alvin M. 500 Wright, George C. 500 Wright, George S. 447 Young, Samuel 500 Zinsmeister, J. 504 Maps, Charts, and Diagrams Page Map of London coffee-house district, 1748 76 Formula for Caffein 160 Commercial coffee chart 191 Eiffel and Woolworth towers in coffee 272 World's coffee cup and largest ship 275 Coffee exports, 1850–1920 277 Coffee exports, 1916–1920 277 Brazil coffee exports, 1850–1920 278 World's coffee consumption, 1850 286 Coffee imports, 1916–1920 286 World trend of consumption of tea and coffee, 1860–1920 288 Coffee map of World (folded insert) facing 288 Pre-war annual average production of coffee by continents 294 Pre-war annual average production of coffee by countries 294 Pre-war average annual imports of coffee into U.S. by continents 295 Pre-war average annual imports of coffee into U.S. by countries 295 Pre-war coffee-imports chart 297 Pre-war consumption and price chart 297 Coffee map, Brazil 342 Coffee map, São Paulo, Minãs, and Rio 344 Mild-coffee map, 1 346 Coffee map, Africa and Arabia 352 Mild-coffee map, 2 354 Complete reference table (21 pp.)
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

[Pg 277] acquaintance, and the anxiety for news concerning Mr. Samuel Pratt brought visitors continually to his table.
— from Jacob's Ladder by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

If I would select one of our nation's 'cutest sons; if I were called upon to name the kind of man with that in his natural composition to make the safest, shrewdest, and most calculating merchant; if I were called to pass judgment on the man most qualified to sustain the spirit and characteristics of the American nation abroad—one who would never betray our national energy, nor degrade his profession, nor fail to seek that which might promote the interests of those who reposed trust in him, at the same time never forgetting his own—if I were about forming an expedition, and would provide myself with that character of man upon whom the issue of its success most depends; if, I say, I would seek the man possessing those rigid qualities of a moral nature which are a sure protection against doing aught that may degrade the councils of a nation, I would make this sandy cape my starting point, and draw from the upward growth of that stern energy to be found among those flourishing, energetic, and intelligent communities embraced within that circle which terminates at Cape Ann, and between the circling arms of which two capes heaves Boston Bay.
— from The Adventures of My Cousin Smooth by Timothy Templeton

in?—And there you leave me to compromise my dignity in order to screen your folly; whereas if you had but stopped, one of your looks, or one of your pretty speeches—one of those you can make so prettily when you are not pert—would have set everything right, even if you had broken his arm.”
— from The Ball at Sceaux by Honoré de Balzac

Then she looked again at the old man, and, trembling with emotion, he cast himself on the floor at her feet, crying: "'Merciful sister, pray for me!'
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 07, April 1868 to September, 1868 by Various

A rebound in the cocoa market should push growth over 4% in 2001-02.
— from The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

"It will not take any one of us a great while to read all the books we can muster," suggested Potts.
— from From Boyhood to Manhood: Life of Benjamin Franklin by William Makepeace Thayer

The lecture having been concluded, Mrs. Seymour proposed that the party should, at once, proceed to the valley, but the vicar suggested the propriety of first explaining to the children the principle upon which the echo depended.
— from Philosophy in Sport Made Science in Earnest Being an Attempt to Illustrate the First Principles of Natural Philosophy by the Aid of Popular Toys and Sports by John Ayrton Paris