He was found guilty, and sentenced to death; and Nelson gave orders that the sentence should be carried into effect that evening, at five o'clock, on board the Sicilian frigate, LA MINERVA, by hanging him at the fore-yard-arm till sunset; when the body was to be cut down and thrown into the sea.
— from The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey

This officer had, at his disposal, a national guard of several hundred men, organised by his own orders.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

Guilty of Lying Down, and not Guilty, of Going to Sleep.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

sich freier, als du —Learn to dispense with things, O friend, bid defiance to pain and death, and no god on Olympus breathes more freely than thou.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Had not Thwackum too much neglected virtue, and Square, religion, in the composition of their several systems, and had not both utterly discarded all natural goodness of heart, they had never been represented as the objects of derision in this history; in which we will now proceed.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Dawn follows Dawn and Nights grow old and all the while this curious cat Lies couching on the Chinese mat with eyes of satin rimmed with gold.
— from Poems, with The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde

He is shot down, and neither grand or petit jury can be found to punish his murderer.
— from Shadows of Shasta by Joaquin Miller

Vincent, their aplanatic object-glasses for diverging rays, 248 ; their microscopes, 257 Chinese language, Baron Von Humboldt’s letter on the genius of the, 92 Chloride of lime applied in cases of burns, 231 Chlorine, on its existence in the native black oxide of manganese, by John M’Mullen, Esq., 258 Chromate, new double, by Mr. Stokes, 477 Chronology, the Bible, compared with that of the hieroglyphics, 185 ― of Manetho, the, 180 Chrysanthemums, 426 Circle of the seasons, and perpetual key to the calendar and almanack, 381 Cities of Great Britain compared with those of other European nations, 285 Cleopatra of Egypt, tablet containing her name, 313 Cline, Henry, epitaph for the eminent surgeon, 333 Clock, improved, made by F. Houriet, of Loch, 454 Cobalt, deuto-sulphuret of, 476 Cobbett’s English Grammar, 96 Cochrane’s, Captain C. S., Journal in Colombia, 356 Cocoa palm, the, 262 Coins, British, having the tapir and elephant on them, 358 – 361 Columbium, a metal discovered by Mr. Hatchett, 277 Combination of numerous bodies effected by the use of feeble electric currents, 462 Comet, Ephemeris of the periodical, for its return in 1828, 428 Commerce of the Romans with India, 361 Complexions, sallow, in countries subject to malaria, 58 Cooper, Sir Astley, 337 Coptic alphabet, the, 177 Cordus, Euricus, account of, 330 Corn, its alteration in a subterraneous repository, 492 Corpuscular forces, on the action of, 448 Covelli, M. N., his examination of Vesuvius, 226 Crambe maritima, on its cultivation, 497 Currants, preserved upon the bushes, 169 Curves, on the beauties contained in the oval and elliptic, by R. R. Reinagle, R.A., 1 Cyanic acid, on the composition of, 203 Dahlies, on, by Mr. William Smith, 170 Dahlia, display of beautiful varieties of the, 426 Dalmahoy, epitaph for, 334 Danaus, his migration from Egypt to Greece, 185 Davy, Sir Humphry, experiments by, 62 Denham, Major, 55 Desideratum in naval architecture, stated, 32 Désormes, M. Clement, on the action of a current of air, and the pressure of the atmosphere, 193 Deutoxide of barium, preparation of, 474 Diamonds, formed into single lenses for microscopes, 15 Diamond lenses, letter of Mr. G. Dakin, 459 Diet, attention to, essential to travellers in tropical countries, 55 Diffraction, theory of, 434 Dominica, fever at, 59 Douglas, Mr. David, 191 , 383 Douglasia, a new genus of plants, described, 383 Dragon’s blood, new substance contained in, 218 Drowning, recovery from, 231 Duncan, Sir William, M.D., 344 Dumas, M., on the properties of sulphur, 468 Dutrochet, Dr., his experiments, 77 Ear, physiology of the, 67 Edwards, Dr. W. F., De l’Influence des Agens Physiques sur la Vie, 137 Egg-plants, on the esculent, by Mr. A. Mathews, 167 Egyptian history, on the recent elucidations of early, 176 Electric currents, use of feeble, by M. Becquerel, 462 Electrical excitation, M. Walcker on, 201 Electricity, 62 Elephant, number of species unknown, 365 Elephants, carnivorous, 356 Elephants, remains discovered near Belturbet, remarks thereupon, 354 ― still existing in North America, 356 Enchorial inscriptions, 310 Encke, Professor, on the return of the periodical comet, 428 Engiscope, improved Amician, 200 Engle, M., his mode of preserving paper, 198 English language, on the character of the, 93 Ethers, on the mutual action of these and other substances, 221 Etruscan vases; illustrations given, 12 Europe, climate of its various divisions, 40 Evelyn, Alexander, Esq., 190 Exodus, disquisition relative to the date of the, 186 Faraday, Mr., his Chemical Manipulation, 61 ― ―, his experiments on the disinfecting soda liquid, 84 Faro in Sicily, remarkable effects of malaria, 51 Fashion destructive of taste, 14 Ferro-prussiate of potash, on its preparation, by M. Gautier, 207 Fever attendant on the houses of the opulent at Rome, 52 Fever, causes of intermittent, 40 et seq.
— from The Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature and the Arts, July-December, 1827 by Various

"Mummy tooked ve t'ock," said Milly, the eldest child, who had followed him in from the door, and now gravely observed his movements.
— from Tales of Mean Streets by Arthur Morrison

There fortuned to passe by a Baker of the next village, who after that he had bought a great deale of corne, bought me likewise to carry it home, and when he had well laded me therewith, be drave me through a thorny and dangerous way to his bake house; there I saw a great company of horses that went in the mill day and night grinding of corne, but lest I should be discouraged at the first, my master entertained me well, for the first day I did nothing but fare daintily, howbeit such mine ease and felicity did not long endure, for the next day following I was tyed to the mill betimes in the morning with my face covered, to the end in turning amid winding so often one way, I should not become giddy, but keepe a certaine course, but although when I was a man I had seen many such horsemills and knew well enough how they should be turned, yet feining my selfe ignorant of such kind of toile, I stood still and would not goe, whereby I thought I should be taken from the mill as an Asse unapt, and put to some other light thing, or else to be driven into the fields to pasture, but my subtility did me small good, for by and by when the mill stood still, the servants came about me, crying and beating me forward, in such sort that I could not stay to advise my selfe, whereby all the company laughed to see so suddaine a change.
— from The Golden Asse by Apuleius

The rapids of Bremgarten could probably be passed most easily by keeping to the edge, though with much delay and numerous "getting outs," but an attempt now to go along the side in this way was soon shown to be useless, for presently I came to a lofty rock jutting out into the stream, and the very loud roar behind it fortunately attracted so much attention that I pulled into the bank, made the boat fast, and mounted through the thicket to the top of the cliff.
— from A Thousand Miles in the Rob Roy Canoe on Rivers and Lakes of Europe by John MacGregor

In his conception of life all true dignity and nobility grows out of the honest discharge of practical duty.
— from Historical and Political Essays by William Edward Hartpole Lecky

For in the divine education and higher guidance of mankind we may trace the same degrees and natural gradation of developments as form the basis of the education of individuals, and may also be observed in all the processes of nature.
— from The philosophy of life, and philosophy of language, in a course of lectures by Friedrich von Schlegel

One can travel almost a whole day and not get outside the city limits.
— from The Gist of Japan: The Islands, Their People, and Missions by R. B. (Rufus Benton) Peery