“The king has made him a baron, and can make him a peer, but he cannot make him a gentleman, and the Count of Morcerf is too aristocratic to consent, for the paltry sum of two million francs, to a mésalliance .
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Still, 'tis whispered that Fernando Cortes keeps life within their bodies for one purpose, and that they will dwell in captivity here till the city of Mexico is taken and the nation is quelled.
— from Roger the Bold: A Tale of the Conquest of Mexico by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton

The larval stage is in the case of many insects the active time when, if they are vegetable feeders, they injure crops.
— from The Library of Work and Play: Outdoor Work by Mary Rogers Miller

We cheered and I tried to get on, when a shot struck my boat right amidships, cut one man in two and took off the arm of another.
— from A Middy's Recollections, 1853-1860 by Victor Alexander Montagu

Solitude, complete confidence, old memories, increased temptation, and the lonely man succumbed.
— from The Confession of a Fool by August Strindberg

It is argued, that to maintain the doctrine of spontaneous volition, independent of the control of motives, involves the absurdity, that “our volitions are excited without any intelligent reasons whatever, and as the effect, consequently, of nothing better than a mere brute or senseless mechanism.”
— from Calvinistic Controversy Embracing a Sermon on Predestination and Election and Several Numbers, Formally Published in the Christian Advocate and Journal. by Wilbur Fisk

The result of this combination of movements is that at the top of the swing, when everything has happened as it should do, the eyes will be looking over the top of the left shoulder—just as when at the top of driving swing.
— from The Complete Golfer by Harry Vardon

The emetics I took proved of no service; and after having from want of bark gone through the course of medicines I thought applicable to the case, and being very seldom favoured with a visit from my friend Yahya Effendi, I left my disease to nature.
— from Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred by John Lewis Burckhardt

It is said by Andreas Libavius to be a corruption of malagma; in the alchemists the form algamala is also found.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg