THE PEAS COOK SEPARATELY, WITHOUT SEASONING, ONLY USING CHOPPED ONIONS AND CORIANDER AND THE BROTH OF THE CHICKEN; STRAIN [part of] THE PEAS AND ARRANGE THEM ALTERNATELY
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

“I am a good Catholic,” she would say, “and will ever remain so; I adopt with all the powers of my soul the decisions of our holy Mother Church; I am not mistress of my faith, but I am of my will, which I submit to you without reserve; I will endeavor to believe all,—what can you require more?” Had there been no Christian morality established, I am persuaded she would have lived as if regulated by its principles, so perfectly did they seem to accord with her disposition.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

They crept in, but it was so terribly hot inside that that woman wore scarcely any clothes; she was small and very dirty looking.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Then he went back to the ocean, and attacked the Frisian fleet, which had struck on shoals; and thus he crowned shipwreck with slaughter.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

THE CHEMIST’S WIFE T HE little town of B——, consisting of two or three crooked streets, was sound asleep.
— from The Duel and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

What a coward she was, she thought to herself.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

At its conclusion she was surprised by the presentation of a purse containing $50, with a touching address by Mrs. Post asking her to accept it as a testimonial of the appreciation in which her friends and neighbors held her work for woman and humanity.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

For we had not as yet changed our Boston eyes for London ones, and very common sights were spectacular and dramatic to us.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works by Oliver Wendell Holmes

In one instance, the crew is said to consist of ghosts of condemned sinners, who serve one hundred years in each grade, until each has a short tour as captain.
— from The Ghost World by T. F. (Thomas Firminger) Thiselton-Dyer

He had himself at one time been confined in the Bastille, which was one reason for speaking of it; but he did not dare put in circulation suddenly, without some preparation, the terrible story he had just conceived, and, with a very delicate sensitiveness to public opinion, he contented himself with printing the following paragraph in the first edition of his Age of Louis XIV. :
— from Legends of the Bastille by Frantz Funck-Brentano

Thus we may say that we understand a rainbow, when recalling successively the several Names for the several sorts of colours, we know that they are to be applied to one and the same phenomenon , at once distinctly and simultaneously; but even in common speech we should not say this of a single colour.
— from Aids to Reflection; and, The Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I like also little heaps, in the nature of mole-hills, such as are in wild heaths, to be set, some with wild thyme, some with pinks, some with germander, that gives a good flower to the eye, some with periwinkle, some with violets, some with strawberries, some with cowslips, some with daisies, some with red roses, some with lilium convallium, some with sweet-williams red, some with bears-foot, and the like low flowers, being withal sweet and sightly.
— from Of Gardens: An essay by Francis Bacon

At the main door he encountered the Duke of Buckingham in company with Sir William Stanley and was passing them with a courteous salutation when Stafford caught his arm.
— from Beatrix of Clare by John Reed Scott

Single-handed I made but a clumsy start; we scraped along the roof of the shed and bent a van of the propeller, and for a time I hung underneath without his offering a hand to help me to clamber up.
— from Tono-Bungay by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells