Cum tacito delirio ac dolore alicujus partis internae, dorsi, hypochondrii, cordis regionem et universam mammam interdum occupantis, &c. Cutis aliquando squalida, aspera, rugosa, praecipue cubitis, genibus, et digitorum articulis, praecordia ingenti saepe torrore aestuant et pulsant, cumque vapor excitatus sursum evolat, cor palpitat aut premitur, animus deficit, &c. 2653 .
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

In justice to you, I have made you privy to my whole design, and put it in your power to ruin or advance my fortune.
— from The Way of the World by William Congreve

But that this is impossible to derive a priori is shown through the fact that elasticity is not an externally recognizable quality, so that we may indeed say that perhaps no effect can be recognized unless it is experienced at least once.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

This estimation therefore shows that the worth of such a disposition is dignity, and places it infinitely above all value, with which it cannot for a moment be brought into comparison or competition without as it were violating its sanctity.
— from Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals by Immanuel Kant

One of his negro drivers, a pleasant, intelligent boy, was named Augustus.
— from Twelve Years a Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana by Solomon Northup

then what diſeaſes, And putrefactions in the gummes are bred, By thoſe are made of adultrate, and falſe wood?
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

My name is Don Antonio Pocchini, I am of a noble Paduan family, and my mother belongs to the illustrious family of Campo San-Piero.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

They averred that to drive a pointed iron bolt of the same size to the same depth would require eight or nine blows with a thirty-pound hammer.
— from The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 4 by Frederick Whymper

They are deformed, and perfect it by being stupid; they repeat the jokes of Tiercelin and Potier; they wear sack-coats, hostlers' waistcoats, trousers of coarse cloth, boots of coarse leather, and their chatter resembles their plumage,—their jargon might be employed to sole their boots.
— from Les Misérables, v. 3/5: Marius by Victor Hugo

After sailing for many days amongst prodigious icebergs, which sometimes threatened to crush his ships, and sometimes to immure them in a gloomy prison, Dumont D’Urville considered himself fortunate in sighting, on the very line of the Antarctic Circle, a range of black rocky cliffs which he named Clarie Coast and Adelie Land.
— from The Desert World by Arthur Mangin

d. a piece—it is 1,044; with this a dado of the willow-pattern cretonne could be used, and the paint could be all cream, or the grey-blue of the paper; the ceiling should be terra-cotta, and the floor should be stained, and some dhurries put about; the curtains could be dhurries too, or else terra-cotta ‘Queen Anne’ cretonne, sold by Burnett, and the furniture simply enamelled grey or terra-cotta.
— from From Kitchen to Garret: Hints for young householders by J. E. (Jane Ellen) Panton

Now, from my very soul, laying and leaving you on the Lord, and desiring a part in your prayers (as, my Lord knoweth, I remember you), I deliver over your body, spirit, and all your necessities, to the hands of our Lord, and remain for ever Your Ladyship's, in your sweet Lord Jesus and mine, S. R. Anwoth , Feb. 13, 1632 .
— from Letters of Samuel Rutherford (Third Edition) by Samuel Rutherford

“And so, can you not see, dear Aunt Polly, it isn’t a thing that laws can touch; it isn’t being good or bad––it is too big a Thing to call by name.
— from At the Crossroads by Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa) Comstock

He did not cast his work in bronze, as so many do, and present it to the public ne varietur .
— from Musical Memories by Camille Saint-Saëns

The Renegado is traceable to a comedy of Cervantes, Los Baños de Argel , printed in 1615.
— from Philip Massinger by Alfred Hamilton Cruickshank

But of course her mother was very delicate and perhaps it might get mixed up so that Viola would be blamed!
— from Dorothy Dale at Glenwood School by Margaret Penrose