In the beginning of the seventeenth century, Grotius laid the foundations of a code of universal law ( De Jure Belli et Pacis , 1625) independent of differences of religion, in the hope that its recognition might simplify the intercourse between the newly formed nations.
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

Chronic uterine catarrh or uterine leucorrhœa does not require the active treatment which was recommended for the acute form.
— from Femina, A Work for Every Woman by John A. (John Alexander) Miller

In the year 1726, a sudden rise of the river Carron undermined a portion of its banks, and exposed to view a canoe of unusually large dimensions, fashioned with care from a single oak tree, and lying at a depth of fifteen feet beneath successive strata of clay, shells, moss, sand, and gravel.
— from Prehistoric Man Researches into the Origin of Civilization in the Old and the New World by Wilson, Daniel, Sir

Ormond turned, and saw near him a gentleman, whom he had often met at some of the first houses in Paris—the Abbé Morellet, then respected as the most reasonable of all the wits of France, and who has since, through all the trying scenes of the revolution, through the varieties of unprincipled change, preserved unaltered the integrity and frankness of his character; retaining even to his eighty-seventh year all his characteristic warmth of heart and clearness of understanding— le doyen de la littérature Françoise —the love, respect, and admiration, of every honest heart in France.
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 09 by Maria Edgeworth

{315} There were no visible signs near her of that human habitation of which Major Hewitson's daughter had so confidently spoken; but at last, after having searched the landscape steadily in all directions, she thought she saw something like a blue curl of smoke rising out of a sort of mound, which, at first sight, seemed neither more nor less than a cairn of unusually large dimensions, nearly hidden by clumps of gorse and heather at least six feet high, and bushy and luxuriant in proportion.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 07, April 1868 to September, 1868 by Various

Time had reconciled me to their custom of carrying, instead of cane or umbrella, long double-barrelled guns, whose muzzle they afford the stranger full opportunity of inspecting.
— from Clara Vaughan, Volume 2 (of 3) by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

"Pretty cool of us leaving Dawn.
— from Some Everyday Folk and Dawn by Miles Franklin

The orderly farmhouses, the tilled fields, disappeared; a rare cabin, roughly constructed of unbarked logs, dominated a parched patch, cut from the heart-breaking tangle of the wild, a thread of smoke creeping from a precarious chimney above the far, unbroken canopy of living green.
— from Mountain Blood: A Novel by Joseph Hergesheimer

Victor Amadeus II, in his instructions to the Marquis del Borgo, his minister at the Congress of Utrecht, laid down the rule: "Aller au solide et au présent et parler ensuite des chimères agréables."
— from Cavour by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Evelyn Lilian Hazeldine Carrington, contessa

It was then that the partisans of the revolution, who should have been the champions of unlimited liberty, demanded coercive measures, while the opposition, who secretly cared more for a monarchy than for a republic, voted for unlimited liberty.
— from The Positive Outcome of Philosophy The Nature of Human Brain Work. Letters on Logic. by Joseph Dietzgen