y the whole body, because all is one flesh, as the head feels the hurt to the ankle without having caused it, so the husband, being one with her, shares the dishonour of the wife; and as all worldly honour or dishonour comes of flesh and blood, and the erring wife's is of that kind, the husband must needs bear his part of it and be held dishonoured without knowing it.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

And, suddenly, beneath a stronger gust, it tottered, partially crumbling as it leaned towards the sea, and the corpse came to view, full length, blackened on his couch of flame and burning with long blue flames:
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

This strange Dialogue awakened my Curiosity so far that I immediately bought the Opera, by which means I perceived the Sparrows were to act the part of Singing Birds in a delightful Grove: though, upon a nearer Enquiry I found the Sparrows put the same Trick upon the Audience, that Sir Martin Mar-all 1 practised upon his Mistress; for, though they flew in Sight, the Musick proceeded from a Consort of Flagellets and Bird-calls which was planted behind the Scenes.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

“And you were cut out for a bachelor,” pursued Miss Pross, “before you were put in your cradle.”
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Stephen Potts, a young countryman of full age, bred to the same, of uncommon natural parts, and great wit and humor, but a little idle.
— from Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

It grows every where by the way sides, in moist grounds, as well as dry, in corners of fields and bye lanes, and sometimes all over the field.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

Beard luxuriant, hair of head parted in middle, and hanging in curls over forehead and back of neck.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

Each runaway tar was hailed as a martyr in the cause of freedom, and became immediately installed a ragged citizen of this universal nation.
— from The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville

Yet I regret the old code, with the rugged crust of freedom and barbarism.
— 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

I well understood their feelings, and knew they were labouring in their minds as to whether the thing that confronted them was a creature of flesh and blood, or what it was.
— from Animal Ghosts; Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter by Elliott O'Donnell

From where he lay flattened out between two rocks, Baree could hear the crunching of flesh and bone as the bear devoured his dinner.
— from Baree, Son of Kazan by James Oliver Curwood

With a bold and willing crew, most of whom had volunteered on the service, at sundown she got under weigh, under the command of Fitzroy, accompanied by Edwin his secretary, and put to sea in search of the bucanier.
— from Captain Kyd; or, The Wizard of the Sea. Vol. II by J. H. (Joseph Holt) Ingraham

The existing population is not so numerous as to require for the cultivation of food any but lands of a very high grade of fertility.
— from Principles of Political Economy Abridged with Critical, Bibliographical, and Explanatory Notes, and a Sketch of the History of Political Economy by John Stuart Mill

Why should I be pleased or displeased with this body, composed of flesh and blood?
— from Vikram and the Vampire; or, Tales of Hindu Devilry by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

[583] The sutras describe how the kings at festivals march out on elephants to the sound of all kinds of instruments, amid the scent of perfumes and clouds of frankincense, accompanied by their ministers and multitudes of people.
— from The History of Antiquity, Vol. 4 (of 6) by Max Duncker

Empedokles rarely assigned any specific ratio in which he supposed the four elements to enter into each distinct compound, except in the case of flesh and blood, which were formed of all the four in equal portions; and of bones, which he affirmed to be composed of one-fourth earth, one-fourth water, and the other half fire.
— from Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume 1 by George Grote

Military expenditures - dollar figure: NA Military expenditures - percent of GDP: NA Military - note: defense is the responsibility of the US; under a Compact of Free Association between Palau and the US, the US military is granted access to the islands for 50 years, but it has not stationed any military forces there (2005) Transnational Issues Palau Disputes - international: maritime delineation negotiations continue with Philippines, Indonesia This page was last updated on 8 February, 2007
— from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

The dumb and tiny creatures Of flower and blade and sod, That dimly wear the features And attributes of God; The airy migrant comers On gauzy wings of fire, Those wanderers and roamers Of indefinite desire; The rainbirds and all dwellers In solitude and peace, Those lingerers and foretellers Of infinite release; {100} Yea, all the dear things living That rove or bask or swim, Remembering and misgiving, Have felt the day grow dim.
— from By the Aurelian Wall, and Other Elegies by Bliss Carman

In the middle of a hollow square and surrounded by thirty thousand persons, shortly after noon to-day, at the south-east corner of Fourteenth and Broadway, “Arthur Carlton,” the famed magician, who is nightly performing at the Orpheum in this city, blindfolded found a bag containing two hundred and fifty dollars in gold which had been hidden in a telephone-box at that intersection for the purpose of determining whether or not he was able to read the thoughts of the man who had there cached the precious metal.
— from Twenty Years of Spoof and Bluff by Carlton