This is as if we were to suppose that it was necessary to put the fires of Etna under the stomach before it could manage to alter the food; or else that, while it was capable of altering the food, it did not do this by virtue of its innate heat, which of course was moist, so that the word boil was used instead of bake .
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

You mustn’t let that child make that noise either.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

The road before us now became less crowded, and yet who would have been able to count the vast numbers of men, women, and children who filled the streets, crowded the balconies, and the canoes in the canals, merely to gaze upon us?
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

“When I die I will commit myself to Him without fear and He may do with me what He wishes.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

[592] This system is carried out in great detail in a book called 'Memory Training,' by Wm.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

Nothing that belongs to Homer [pg xlii] seems to have been more commonly mistaken than the just pitch of his style: some of his translators having swelled into fustian in a proud confidence of the sublime; others sunk into flatness, in a cold and timorous notion of simplicity.
— from The Iliad by Homer

He entered into conversation with the king; and as the king found much pleasure in the guest's speech, he asked him concerning many things, to which the guest gave good answers: and the king sat up late in the evening.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

As I told you, I see that every New Year's night, and could mention the majority of the riders by name, but I should not like to draw their enmity upon myself, for they don't like people to talk about their ride to Amack on quill pens.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

But she, that she might not suffer the constancy of her chaste mind to falter by looking at the world without, restrained her gaze, keeping her lids immovably rigid.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

In the Attic township of Acharnae there was a Dionysus Ivy; at Lacedaemon there was a Fig Dionysus; and in Naxos, where figs were called meilicha, there was a Dionysus Meilichios, the face of whose image was made of fig-wood.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

For a week he was trying to teach his pupil Tommy Toad, as he called him, three letters of the alphabet, and at the end of the time he could not tell B from C. Mr Talbot took care also that we should not be idle, and kept us knotting and splicing and doing all sorts of work aloft.
— from My First Cruise, and Other stories by William Henry Giles Kingston

"It seems to me," rejoined the cardinal, maliciously, "that his majesty the king of Great Britain knew perfectly well of this million, but that he preferred having two millions to having one."
— from The Vicomte De Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas

There was something about him that caused men to wonder, not what he was, but what he had been.
— from Stories by American Authors, Volume 9 by Various

In the meantime the refusal of the Captain-Generalto allow passengers and the mail to be landed in certain cases, for a reason which does not furnish, in the opinion of this Government, even a good presumptive ground for such prohibition, has been made the subject of a serious remonstrance at Madrid, and I have no reason to doubt that due respect will be paid by the Government of Her Catholic Majesty to the representations which our minister has been instructed to make on the subject.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

"You cannot mean to infer that Mannering had anything to do with that?"
— from The Motor Pirate by G. Sidney Paternoster

How they carried me to Edinburgh I cannot stop to tell, though the manner of it was grievous enough.
— from The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

"I suppose it cannot matter to you, Colonel Carlyle, who the giver may have been," exclaimed Bonnibel, offended at his overbearing tone, and flushing indignantly.
— from An Old Man's Darling by Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.

The fall of Carchemish meant the final triumph of the Semites in their long struggle with the Hittite stranger.
— from Fresh Light from the Ancient Monuments A Sketch of the Most Striking Confirmations of the Bible, From Recent Discoveries in Egypt, Palestine, Assyria, Babylonia, Asia Minor by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce