Here ends their history, except that they are taken out again when the vessel is ready to go home, beaten, stowed away on board, carried to Boston, tanned, made into shoes and other articles for which leather is used; and many of them, very probably, in the end, brought back again to California in the shape of shoes, and worn out in pursuit of other bullocks, or in the curing of other hides.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

However, Davis was not long out of Business, for Captain Rogers having fitted out two Sloops for Trade, one called the Buck , the other the Mumvil Trader; Davis found an Employment on Board of one of them; the Lading of these Sloops was of considerable Value, consisting of European Goods, in order to be exchanged with the French and Spaniards ; and many of the Hands on Board of them, were the Pyrates lately come in upon the late Act of Grace.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

He brought Charles to me, I presented both of them to the curate and his niece, and then left them to complete their business.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

226 The great vessel that conveys the blood to the liver, after it has been enriched by the absorption of nutriment from the intestines.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

You ask me if the movements of animals are spontaneous; my answer is, “I cannot tell,” but analogy points that way.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

These in pace , these dungeons, these iron hinges, these necklets, that lofty peep-hole on a level with the river’s current, that box of stone closed with a lid of granite like a tomb, with this difference, that the dead man here was a living being, that soil which is but mud, that vault hole, those oozing walls,—what declaimers! H2 anchor CHAPTER III—ON WHAT CONDITIONS ONE CAN RESPECT THE PAST Monasticism, such as it existed in Spain, and such as it still exists in Thibet, is a sort of phthisis for civilization.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Of the Rhodians and Cytherians, both Dorians, the latter, Lacedaemonian colonists, fought in the Athenian ranks against their Lacedaemonian countrymen with Gylippus; while the Rhodians, Argives by race, were compelled to bear arms against the Dorian Syracusans and their own colonists, the Geloans, serving with the Syracusans.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

Mr. Huxley said that the origin of life was a sheet of gelatinous living matter which covered the bottom of the ocean.
— from The Other Side of Evolution: Its Effects and Fallacy by Alexander Patterson

He claimed to be very tired.
— from Shell-Shock and Other Neuropsychiatric Problems Presented in Five Hundred and Eighty-nine Case Histories from the War Literature, 1914-1918 by Elmer Ernest Southard

“Yes, indeed; I like it excessively,” was Archie’s comment; and then he added, with the delicious frankness common to brothers, “It makes you look quite a different person, Mattie: you are almost nice-looking to-night.”
— from Not Like Other Girls by Rosa Nouchette Carey

They have never contemplated the difference between good and evil sufficiently to quicken aversion, or invigorate desire; they have indulged a drowsy thoughtlessness or giddy levity; have committed the balance of choice to the management of caprice; and when they have long accustomed themselves to receive all that chance offered them, without examination, lament at last that they find themselves deceived.
— from The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II by Samuel Johnson

This medal indicates the parts taken by Eugene and Marlborough at the siege of Lille, the former superintending the attack, the latter commanding the army, which covered the besiegers.
— from A Guide to the Exhibition of English Medals by British Museum. Department of Coins and Medals

This boasting of capacity to be pure and strong without God, theologically the Pelagian heresy, is sufficiently answered by a cursory view of what humanity has done and does do.
— from Our Lady Saint Mary by J. G. H. (Joseph Gayle Hurd) Barry

To this natural curiosity, the book of travel is particularly gratifying.
— from Through the South Seas with Jack London by Martin Johnson

He protested, under oath, that he had never been exposed to contract disease; and Closs, therefore, considered this blenorrhea as the result of masturbation, in which the patient had indulged even before puberty.
— from A Treatise on the Diseases Produced By Onanism, Masturbation, Self-Pollution, and Other Excesses. by L. (Léopold) Deslandes