Her guards also were so careful, that nothing she did in private life every day was concealed.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

These last plays of the old dramatist revert to caricature and the hard lines of allegory; the moralist is more than ever present, the satire degenerates into personal lampoon, especially of his sometime friend, Inigo Jones, who appears unworthily to have used his influence at court against the broken-down old poet.
— from Every Man in His Humor by Ben Jonson

How could the lightest word do less on the part of a person who was prepared to say, of almost everything Isabel told her, “Oh, I’ve been in that, my dear; it passes, like everything else.”
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

It helps weakness of the reins and bladder, and such as make water with difficulty, it provokes lust exceedingly, and speedily helps such as are impotent in the acts of Venus .
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

He described in plain language every vice; he laid bare every abuse; so that a mirror was held up to the souls of his hearers, in which they saw their most secret faults appallingly portrayed and ringed around with fire.
— from Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots by John Addington Symonds

nuntio ad transcribendum sine difficultatis obstaculo assignetis, ut iidem inquisitores depositionibus ipsis pro loco et tempore uti possint contra personas prædicti regni, quæ per depositiones ipsas apparebunt de heresi culpabiles vel suspectæ.
— from A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea

In its later days it produced little except logical puzzles.
— from The Teaching of Epictetus Being the 'Encheiridion of Epictetus,' with Selections from the 'Dissertations' and 'Fragments' by Epictetus

You probably dined in Paris last evening?"
— from The Exploits of Juve Being the Second of the Series of the "Fantômas" Detective Tales by Pierre Souvestre

But it made no difference whether Luigi went in first and offered his North American candidate, Maso following a few minutes afterwards, or whether Maso made his demand in person, Luigi entering later, with his best smile, to serve as backer; no one showed any eagerness to secure the services of the small, narrow-chested boy.
— from Dorothy, and Other Italian Stories by Constance Fenimore Woolson

Winter diet is primarily larvae, eggs, katydids, and spiders (Bent 1946, Martin et al. 1951).
— from Cavity-Nesting Birds of North American Forests Agriculture Handbook 511 by Charles P. Stone

This drama is played long enough By creatures who have naught of me, Save what comes up from foam of the sea To crawling moss or swimming weeds, At last to man.
— from Toward the Gulf by Edgar Lee Masters