But he says newes is come that De Ruyter is dead, or very near it, of a hurt in his mouth, upon the discharge of one of his own guns; which put him into a fever, and he likely to die, if not already dead.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

I’d as soon desire to have it proved that my mother could drink brandy, chew tobacco, and swear, by way of satisfying me that I did right in doing the same.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

But the evidence of his destructive rage is doubtful and recent: the Temple of Peace, or the theatre of Marcellus, have been demolished by the slow operation of ages, and a formal proscription would have multiplied the copies of Virgil and Livy in the countries which were not subject to the ecclesiastical dictator.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Pr. Die alleinige Quelle des Rechts ist das gemeinsame Bewusstsein des ganzen Volks; der allgemeine Geist —The only fountain of justice is the common consciousness of the whole people; the spirit common to all of them.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Professor Mach quotes somewhere an epigram of Lessing's: Sagt Hanschen Schlau zu Vetter Fritz, "Wie kommt es, Vetter Fritzen, Dass grad' die Reichsten in der Welt, Das meiste Geld besitzen?" Hanschen Schlau here treats the principle 'wealth' as something distinct from the facts denoted by the man's being rich.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James

VI I Meet With a Flattering Reception From My Patron—Madame D’Urfe’s Infatuation—Madame X. C. V. And Her Family—Madame du Rumain IMG During my journey from the Hague to Paris, short as it was, I had plenty of opportunities for seeing that the mental qualities of my adopted son were by no means equal to his physical ones.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Owing to a combination of misfortunes, the attack at Porto Praya had not the decisive result it deserved.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

Lawless men may ravage a county in Iowa and it is accepted as an incident—in the South, a drunken row is declared to be the fixed habit of the community.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

But as soon as the shouts of the horsemen commanding them to depart now urged them on, the crashing of the dwellings which were being demolished, was now heard in the remotest parts of the city, and the dust, rising in distant places, had filled every quarter as with a cloud spread over them; hastily snatching up whatever each of them could, whilst they went forth leaving behind them their guardian deity and household gods, and the homes in which each had been born and brought up, a continued train of emigrants soon filled the ways, and the sight of others through mutual commiseration renewed their tears, and piteous cries too were heard, of the women more especially, when they passed by their revered temples now beset with armed men, and left their gods as it were in captivity.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

“Zauberglaube bei den Rutenen in der Bukowina und Galizien,” in Globus , lxi.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 12 of 12) by James George Frazer

A long deep sleep; a dreamless sleep at first, Then, as the hours wore on and still he slept, Delicious reminiscences in dream (Unconscious hoarded treasure of the brain,) Were loosed within him of a dewy dawn Forgotten, and a time when he was young.
— from The Epic of Paul by William Cleaver Wilkinson

India total: 0.2 sq km land: 0.2 sq km water: 0 sq km Belarus total: 207,600 sq km land: 207,600 sq km water: 0 sq km Belgium total: 30,528 sq km land: 30,278 sq km water: 250 sq km Belize total: 22,966 sq km land: 22,806 sq km water: 160 sq km Benin total: 112,620 sq km land: 110,620 sq km water: 2,000 sq km Bermuda total: 53.3 sq km land: 53.3 sq km water: 0 sq km Bhutan total: 47,000 sq km land: 47,000 sq km water: 0 sq km Bolivia total: 1,098,580 sq km land: 1,084,390 sq km water: 14,190 sq km Bosnia and Herzegovina total: 51,129 sq km land: 51,129 sq km water: 0 sq km Botswana total: 600,370 sq km land: 585,370 sq km water: 15,000 sq km Bouvet Island total: 49 sq km land: 49 sq km water: 0 sq km Brazil total: 8,511,965 sq km land: 8,456,510 sq km water: 55,455 sq km note: includes Arquipelago de Fernando de Noronha, Atol das Rocas, Ilha da Trindade, Ilhas Martin Vaz, and Penedos de Sao Pedro e Sao Paulo British Indian Ocean Territory total: 54,400 sq km land: 60 sq km; Diego Garcia 44 sq km water: 54,340 sq km note: includes the entire Chagos Archipelago of 55 islands British Virgin Islands total: 153 sq km land: 153 sq km water: 0 sq km note: comprised of 16 inhabited and more than 20 uninhabited islands; includes the islands of Tortola, Anegada, Virgin Gorda, Jost van Dyke Brunei total: 5,770 sq km land: 5,270 sq km water: 500 sq km Bulgaria total: 110,910 sq km land: 110,550 sq km water: 360 sq km Burkina Faso total: 274,200 sq km land: 273,800 sq km water: 400 sq km Burma total: 678,500 sq km land: 657,740 sq km water: 20,760 sq km Burundi total: 27,830 sq km land: 25,650 sq km water: 2,180 sq km Cambodia total: 181,040 sq km land: 176,520 sq km water: 4,520 sq km Cameroon total: 475,440 sq km land: 469,440 sq km water: 6,000 sq km Canada total: 9,984,670 sq km land: 9,093,507 sq km water: 891,163 sq km Cape Verde total: 4,033 sq km land: 4,033 sq km water: 0 sq km Cayman Islands total: 262 sq km land: 262 sq km water: 0 sq km Central African Republic total: 622,984 sq km land: 622,984 sq km water: 0 sq km Chad total: 1.284 million sq km land: 1,259,200 sq km water: 24,800 sq km Chile total: 756,950 sq km land: 748,800 sq km water: 8,150 sq km note: includes Easter Island (Isla de Pascua) and Isla Sala y Gomez China total: 9,596,960 sq km land: 9,326,410 sq km water: 270,550 sq km Christmas Island total: 135 sq km land: 135 sq km water: 0 sq km Clipperton Island total: 6 sq km land: 6 sq km water: 0 sq km Cocos (Keeling) Islands total: 14 sq km land: 14 sq km water: 0 sq km note: includes the two main islands of West Island and Home Island Colombia total: 1,138,910 sq km land: 1,038,700 sq km water: 100,210 sq km note: includes Isla de Malpelo, Roncador Cay, and Serrana Bank Comoros total: 2,170 sq km land: 2,170 sq km water: 0 sq km Congo, Democratic Republic of the total: 2,345,410 sq km land: 2,267,600 sq km water: 77,810 sq km Congo, Republic of the total: 342,000 sq km land: 341,500 sq km water: 500 sq km Cook Islands total: 236.7 sq km land: 236.7 sq km water: 0 sq km Coral Sea Islands total: less than 3 sq km land: less than 3 sq km water: 0 sq km note: includes numerous small islands and reefs scattered over a sea area of about 780,000 sq km, with the Willis Islets the most important Costa Rica total: 51,100 sq km land: 50,660 sq km water: 440 sq km note: includes Isla del Coco Cote d'Ivoire total: 322,460 sq km land: 318,000 sq km water: 4,460 sq km Croatia total: 56,542 sq km land: 56,414 sq km water: 128 sq km Cuba total: 110,860 sq km land: 110,860 sq km water: 0 sq km Cyprus total: 9,250 sq km (of which 3,355 sq km are in north Cyprus)
— from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Fannie and Mattie lives in Asheville, and de rest is done journeyed to de Promise Land.
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 1 by United States. Work Projects Administration

Sismondi, Histoire des Républiques Italiennes du Moyen-Age, (Paris, 1818,) tom. ix.
— from The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 1 by William Hickling Prescott

His wife died right in dis house, an' arter dat her husband went right to de dorgs; an' now he's in de pore-house.
— from Iola Leroy; Or, Shadows Uplifted by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

If, however, he manifests gastro-intestinal disturbances, resulting in diarrhea, the amount must be temporarily reduced.
— from Dietetics for Nurses by Fairfax T. (Fairfax Throckmorton) Proudfit

It once fell to my lot to be set upon by a couple of very disagreeable roughs in Dublin, one of whom did manage to get the first blow, but it was “all round” and did not do much harm.
— from Broad-Sword and Single-Stick With Chapters on Quarter-Staff, Bayonet, Cudgel, Shillalah, Walking-Stick, Umbrella and Other Weapons of Self-Defence by Headley, Rowland George Allanson-Winn, Baron

But though his great love had only appeared in trifles, Eve read it clearly; she was proud, without a touch of vanity in her pride, of the deep reverence in David's looks and words and manner towards her, but it was the young printer's enthusiastic belief in Lucien that drew her to him most of all.
— from Lost Illusions by Honoré de Balzac