One complains of want, a second of servitude, [1795] another of a secret or incurable disease; of some deformity of body, of some loss, danger, death of friends, shipwreck, persecution, imprisonment, disgrace, repulse, [1796] contumely, calumny, abuse, injury, contempt, ingratitude, unkindness, scoffs, flouts, unfortunate marriage, single life, too many children, no children, false servants, unhappy children, barrenness, banishment, oppression, frustrate hopes and ill-success, &c.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

In 1821 Defosses, of Besançon, obtained solanine from the fruit, previously isolated from the S. Dulcamara .
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera

Íya lang gisutsut ang usa ka panaksang sabaw, He simply slurped down one bowl of soup.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

[A; a12] detach or break off s.t. from an attachment or joint, esp.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

There is no necessity to mention all the possible exceptions; 437 let us provisionally assume that opposites cannot do or be or suffer opposites in the same relation.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

We never dream of blaming our social inadequacy as the origin of our present helplessness, for we have accepted as the creed of our nationalism that this social system has been perfected for all time to come by our ancestors, who had the superhuman vision of all eternity and supernatural power for making infinite provision for future ages.
— from Nationalism by Rabindranath Tagore

Moisey goes about now in a bowler hat; he often drives into the town in a racing droshky on business of some sort, and stops near the bank.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

But in society, and at the evening party (should the rest of those present be of lesser rank than himself) the Prometheus will once more become Prometheus, and the man who stands a step below him will treat him in a way never dreamt of by Ovid, seeing that each fly is of lesser account than its superior fly, and becomes, in the presence of the latter, even as a grain of sand.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

than whom, there exist few amongst those they call the vulgar, who are more ignorant of, or who cultivate less, the art of living than they do; they, I say, who for ever mistake things the most foreign to the nature of pleasure itself; whose capital favourite object is enjoyment of beauty, wherever that rare incaluable gift is found, without distinction of birth, or station.
— from Memoirs of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) by John Cleland

Woodcut from Greenland illustrating a fairy-tale, drawn and engraved by a native Michel Beheim, who travelled in Norway in 1450, gives in his poem about the journey [Vangensten, 1908, p. 18] a mythical description of the Skrælings (“schrelinge”), who are only three “spans” high, but are nevertheless dangerous opponents both on sea and land.
— from In Northern Mists: Arctic Exploration in Early Times (Volume 2 of 2) by Fridtjof Nansen

I received the degree of Bachelor of Science in Agriculture.
— from College Men Without Money by Carl Brown Riddle

To conclude this part of the subject; the arguments against the lending of books out of such a library as the Bodleian may be briefly summed up thus: lending is bad, because books are necessarily exposed to needless and certain risks of damage and of downright loss; because one of the great ends served by a large library is defeated, in that no man can be certain of obtaining a book known to be in it; because lending leads sooner or later to the destruction of a library; because it dries up the great sources from which large numbers of the most valuable books are derived; because it is disapproved of by all those who have the largest and widest experience of books and their management; because, finally, it is in violation of the express directions of Bodley, of Selden, of Laud and others, and almost certainly contrary to the wishes of all our great benefactors, even though they may not have said as much.
— from Remarks on the practice and policy of lending Bodleian printed books and manuscripts by Henry W. (Henry William) Chandler

A very handsome style is an eight-sided, melon-shaped bag of black satin, with a decoration of bunches of scarlet flowers painted or embroidered.
— from Manners and Social Usages by M. E. W. (Mary Elizabeth Wilson) Sherwood

a sharp Pain [255] of the Side, or Difficulty of Breathing, or some Symptom of the like Kind; it is then sometimes necessary to take away some Blood: And in obstinate Cases, it is often found of Use to promote Sweats, by making the Patient, while in Bed, drink freely of warm Whey, or Sack Whey, mixed with the scorbutic Juices; or warm Barley Water, or the like, mixed with a small Quantity of the Antimonial Wine, or some other mild Diaphoretic.
— from An Account of the Diseases which were most frequent in the British military hospitals in Germany by Donald Monro

REQUESTS FOR THE PRAYERS OF THE CONGREGATION | When the prayers of the congregation are desired on behalf of | sick persons, sufferers from any public calamity, or others, | the Minister may give notice of the same before he begins the | Litany, and may insert the words especially those for whom our | prayers are desired in the relative suffrage to which the case | is appropriate.
— from The Book of Common Prayer and The Scottish Liturgy by Episcopal Church in Scotland

In very low forms of life, as is well known, there is no development of brain or special organs of sense; but the organism is pushed and pulled about by light, heat, gravity, and acid and other chemical forces, and is unable to decline to act on any stimulus reaching it.
— from Sex and Society: Studies in the Social Psychology of Sex by William Isaac Thomas

In the morning before I went forth old East brought me a dozen of bottles of sack, and I gave him a shilling for his pains.
— from Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 02: January 1659-1660 by Samuel Pepys