We need not a whale, elephant, or a crocodile, nor any such-like animals, of which one alone is sufficient to dispatch a great number of men, to do our business; lice are sufficient to vacate Sylla’s dictatorship; and the heart and life of a great and triumphant emperor is the breakfast of a little contemptible worm!
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

(ii. 275. note, second edition), and the latter in the Egerton Papers , printed for the Camden Society (p. 446.), assigns the date 1614 to the death of Bartholomew Legate at Smithfield.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 30, May 25, 1850 by Various

Such commissaries are, for instance, sent and received for the purpose of arrangements between the two States as regards railways, post, telegraphs, navigation, delineation of boundary lines, and so on.
— from International Law. A Treatise. Volume 1 (of 2) Peace. Second Edition by L. (Lassa) Oppenheim

It is a period of great magnetic disturbance, over both land and sea; of more active gales and local-increased precipitation.
— from The Philosophy of the Weather. And a Guide to Its Changes by T. B. (Thomas Belden) Butler

Add to which that for the means of distribution over both land and sea, we are similarly indebted.
— from Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library by Herbert Spencer

Equity financing and corporate debt outstrip bank lending as sources of corporate finance even in the West.
— from Russian Roulette: Russia's Economy in Putin's Era by Samuel Vaknin

The girl whose family is poor—be she as beautiful as Shirin and virtuous as an angel—stands in every danger of being left a spinster.
— from Women of India by Otto Rothfield

[684] disease of both liver and stomach, it is not clear that this is to be attributed entirely to poison.
— from Poisons, Their Effects and Detection A Manual for the Use of Analytical Chemists and Experts by Alexander Wynter Blyth

A truly splendid display of brotherly love and sympathy has been shown by the people of this country, and a similar display was ready to be shown by the people of the civilized world had it been felt that the occasion demanded it and that the exigency surpassed the power of our people to meet it.
— from The San Francisco Calamity by Earthquake and Fire by Charles Morris

CONTENTS : The Value of Etiquette; Introductions; Solicitations; Strangers in Towns; Débuts in Society; Visiting, and Visiting Cards for Ladies; Card and Visiting Customs for Gentlemen; Morning Receptions and Kettle-Drums; Giving and attending Parties, Balls, and Germans; Dinner-giving and Dining out; Breakfasts, Luncheons, and Suppers; Opera and Theatre Parties, Private Theatricals, and Musicales; Extended Visits; Customs and Costumes at Theatres, Concerts, and Operas (being two additional chapters written for this edition); Etiquette of Weddings (rewritten, for this edition, in accordance with the latest fashionable usage); Christenings and Birthdays; Marriage Anniversaries; New Year’s Day in New York; Funeral Customs and Seasons of Mourning.
— from Home Amusements by M. E. W. (Mary Elizabeth Wilson) Sherwood