Witness our pallid faces, our forms, sometimes attenuated and repulsive while yet in early life, age marching, not creeping, on before his time; or witness our over-fed and over-expanded forms, enfeebled by indolence, and suffering the worst species of debility—the debility of fat .
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

Very often in criminal cases when I can make no progress in some otherwise simple matter, I recall the well known story of an old peasant woman who saw the tail of a horse through an open stable door and the head of another through another door several yards away, and because the colors of both head and tail were similar, was moved to cry out: “Dear Lord, what a long horse!”
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

I thrust the little boat down the beach and clambered on board her.
— from The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

The great army of the crusaders was annihilated or dispersed; the principality of Antioch was left without a head, by the surprise and captivity of Bohemond; his ransom had oppressed him with a heavy debt; and his Norman followers were insufficient to repel the hostilities of the Greeks and Turks.
— 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

Milady, pale as a corpse, endeavored to cry out; but her swollen tongue could utter no more than a hoarse sound which had nothing human in it and resembled the rattle of a wild beast.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

At this moment Hurstwood stood before a dirty four story building in a side street quite near the Bowery, whose one-time coat of buff had been changed by soot and rain.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

He rose and brought half a cake of bread, half of a wild apple, and half a pigeon.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Adieu dear comrade, Your mission is fulfill'd—but I, more warlike, Myself and this contentious soul of mine, Still on our own campaigning bound, Through untried roads with ambushes opponents lined, Through many a sharp defeat and many a crisis, often baffled, Here marching, ever marching on, a war fight out—aye here, To fiercer, weightier battles give expression.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

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— from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical, and Chronological, from Contemporary Sources by Emperor of the French Napoleon I

The minimum permissible tenement for a maximum of two adults and a very young child is one properly ventilated room capable of being heated, with close and easy access to sanitary conveniences, a constant supply of water and easy means of getting warm water.
— from Mankind in the Making by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Take Pullets and roast them, then take the Flesh of the Breast, and mince it small, with some Fat of Bacon boil'd, a few Mushrooms, a little Onion and Parsley, and some Crumb of Bread soak'd in Cream over a gentle Fire; when all these are well minc'd, add the Yolks of two or three Eggs, and mix all together; then with this forced Meat fill the Breast of the Fowls in their proper shape, and beat some Whites of Eggs to go over them, and then cover them thick with Crumbs of Bread, having first laid your Fowls commodiously in a Dish, and then put them in the Oven till they have taken a fine brown Colour.
— from The Country Housewife and Lady's Director in the Management of a House, and the Delights and Profits of a Farm by Richard Bradley

He was about fifteen years old, a wilful, even violent-tempered lad, when he disobeyed a direct order by going for a ride upon the bailiff's horse, an uncertain-tempered brute, who could be controlled only by his master.
— from The Daughter Pays by Reynolds, Baillie, Mrs.

It is weary work enough to argue with an ordinary materialist, who hurls statistics and whole strata of geological facts at your head, whilst you can only buffet him with deductions and instincts and the snowflakes of faith, that are, alas!
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

"Come on, Bob, hurry!" ordered Trent.
— from The Dual Alliance by Marjorie Benton Cooke

That is a draft of an order which was presented to Jodl but which was crossed out by him and therefore annulled.
— from Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremburg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946, Volume 6 by Various

How Gawain came to the beleaguered city of Beaurosch; how Obie scorned him; and how Obilot besought him to be her knight.
— from Parzival: A Knightly Epic (vol. 1 of 2) by Wolfram, von Eschenbach, active 12th century

Amputational neuroma after neurectomy Anatomy, pathological, of corn Applying poultices, method of Arteries of the foot Arthritis, acute causes of symptoms of treatment of Arthritis, simple or serous Arthritis, suppurative causes of definition of diagnosis of pathology of symptoms of treatment of Articulation, the first interphalangeal Articulation, the second interphalangeal Bar pad and a half-shoe in the treatment of contracted feet Bar shoes in the treatment of contraction Bayer's treatment for chronic laminitis Bermbach's treatment for canker Bind Bone, caries of Bones, fracture of the, after neurectomy Bones, fracture of the Bones, necrosis of Bones, the Brittle hoof causes of definition of symptoms of treatment of Broad's treatment of laminitis Broué's expansion shoe Bruised sole, chronic Buttress foot Canker Bermbach's treatment of causes of definition of differential diagnosis in history of Hoffmann's treatment of Imminger's treatment of Malcolm's treatment of pathological anatomy of prognosis in Rose's treatment of symptoms of treatment of Caries of bone Caries of the os pedis in pricked foot Cartilage, the lateral Cartilaginous quittor Causes of acute laminitis of acute simple coronitis of brittle hoof of canker of chronic coronitis of chronic laminitis of club-foot of corn of contracted feet of coronary contraction of the foot of crooked foot of curved hoof of false quarter of flat-foot of keraphyllocele of nail-bound of navicular disease of pumiced foot of punctured foot of ringed hoof of sand-crack of seedy-toe of side-bone of simple chronic coronitis of simple cutaneous quittor of specific coronitis of sub-horny quittor of thrush of weak heels Caustic solution, Villate's Changes in the bone in navicular disease in the bursa in navicular disease in the cartilage in navicular disease in the internal structures of the foot in contraction in the tendon in navicular disease Charlier shoe, the Charlier shoeing for contracted foot Chemical properties of horn Chronic coronitis, simple causes of definition of symptoms of treatment of Chronic bruised sole treatment of Chronic laminitis Bayer's treatment of causes of definition of Gross's treatment of Gunther's treatment of Imminger's treatment of Joly's treatment of Meyer's treatment of pathological anatomy of surgical shoeing for symptoms of treatment of treatment of, by ligaturing the digital arteries Chronic oedema of the leg after neurectomy Chronic synovitis Clamp, sand-crack, Koster's McGill's Vachette's Clamping sand-cracks, methods of Classification of corns of punctured foot according to the situation of the wound of sand-crack of quittor Club-foot causes of definition of symptoms of treatment of Cocaine injections as an aid to diagnosis in foot lamenesses Colic, metastatic, in laminitis Commencement, point of, in navicular disease Common situations of the wound in punctured foot.
— from Diseases of the Horse's Foot by H. Caulton (Harry Caulton) Reeks

I know how. Take decent care of Barlow; he was a real man once and may be again, if he can shake that damned woman off.
— from Daughter of the Sun A Tale of Adventure by Jackson Gregory

It is clear that we must reject all material conceptions of both heaven and hell.
— from The Law of Psychic Phenomena A working hypothesis for the systematic study of hypnotism, spiritism, mental therapeutics, etc. by Thomson Jay Hudson