te stomachos mikros hê t' eurychôria tou stomatos dapsilês, epi toutôn oligê rhopê tês epektaseôs eis to stoma tên koilian holên anapherei.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

For clear it is beyond all question, that such frightful corruptions as these, of which we are now to give instances, were spread throughout the land; that such was the religion then imposed on the people of England; and it was from such dreadful enormities, that our Reformation, to whatever secondary cause that reformation is to be attributed—by the providence of Almighty God rescued us.
— from Primitive Christian Worship Or, The Evidence of Holy Scripture and the Church, Against the Invocation of Saints and Angels, and the Blessed Virgin Mary by James Endell Tyler

Dry enough to ordinary readers, these pages will not prove uninteresting to the critical student.
— from The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark by John William Burgon

The first week the chronic cases took the entire time of one doctor, each taking our regular turn.
— from The Red Cross in Peace and War by Clara Barton

These three scholars were to be exempt from all other domestic duties, except that of reading the Bible in time of plague.
— from St. John's College, Cambridge by Robert Forsyth Scott

The Parthians were unprepared; without encountering resistance the Romans burnt down the towns and villages in Adiabene, and ruthlessly destroyed even the old royal tombs at Arbela.
— from The Provinces of the Roman Empire, from Caesar to Diocletian. v. 2 by Theodor Mommsen

or who can devise easier terms of reconciliation to an offended God, than are here addressed to the chief of sinners?
— from Notes on the Apocalypse by David Steele

[Pg 162] properly assumes the name of coptila, because it unites two distinct elements, the one representative, the other logical.
— from Logic as the Science of the Pure Concept by Benedetto Croce

Fill about two-thirds with hot but not boiling water, and put in a few pieces of well-soaked brown paper; leave them thus for two or three hours; then shake the water up and down in the decanters; empty this out, rinse them well with clean, cold water, and put them in a rack to drain.
— from Practical Suggestions for Mother and Housewife by Marion Mills Miller

What, again, for ages, was the history of those "Shemitic races," in which, of all "races," was found, according to Mr. Parker, the happiest "religious organization," by which they discovered, earlier than other "races," the great truths of Monotheism?
— from The Eclipse of Faith; Or, A Visit to a Religious Sceptic by Henry Rogers