An egg boiled very soft is not unwholesome.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

Men who act steadily on the principles I have stated may in all events be very serviceable to their country; in one ca
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

On my return to Cairo I found authority from department headquarters for me to take Paducah "if I felt strong enough," but very soon after I was reprimanded from the same quarters for my correspondence with the legislature and warned against a repetition of the offence.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

Death grants ye everything, But vital sense and exhalation hot.
— from On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus

Some of these officers shall be elected by vote, some by lot; and all classes shall mingle in a friendly manner at the elections.
— from Laws by Plato

He who had just then been accusing another was accused himself, and was led away to execution together with him whom he had convicted; for the danger the king was in of his life made examinations be very short.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

He was a man of abilities and of popular eloquence, and his representations produced an effect; their reception invested him with influence, and as he addressed a population who required excitement, being very slightly employed and with few resources for their vacant hours, the Chartist who was careful never to speak of the Charter became an important personage at Wodgate, and was much patronized by Bishop Hatton and his Lady, whose good offices he was sedulous to conciliate.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

On the other hand, the excessive heat exempts Egypt; the warm and dry vapours of the earth being very seldom condensed, and that only into light clouds.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

I learnt that the wounds in themselves were not mortal, that they would not even be very serious, had not a violent disturbance in the brain complicated the evil and made him fear tetanus.
— from Mauprat by George Sand

Two pounds confectioner's sugar, one fourth pound grated cocoa-nut, one tablespoonful vanilla, [Page 127] a pinch of salt, whites of three eggs (beaten very stiff); mix all together, and roll into small balls; let stand one-half hour; then dip into the chocolate prepared thus: One half cake Baker's chocolate (grated fine), two tablespoonfuls butter.
— from My Pet Recipes, Tried and True Contributed by the Ladies and Friends of St. Andrew's Church, Quebec by Various

They forgot that the contest of 1860 was not only a struggle between slavery and freedom, but a struggle of life and death, inasmuch as the exclusion of slavery from all federal territory would not only put the nation's brand upon it in the States of the South, and condemn it as a public enemy, but virtually sentence it to death.
— from Political Recollections 1840 to 1872 by George Washington Julian

The figure did not move forwards, but stood there, full of life and fine excitement, but very still also.
— from The Translation of a Savage, Complete by Gilbert Parker

They would only be able to imitate the deaf mutes in their gesture language and possibly the pagenumber musical sounds of birds; for the language a child learns is that which it hears; they might however develop a simple natural language to express their emotions by vocal sounds.
— from The Brain and the Voice in Speech and Song by F. W. (Frederick Walker) Mott

As he spoke, the wizened man’s expression became very sorrowful.
— from Brazilian Gold Mine Mystery: A Biff Brewster Mystery Adventure by Andy Adams

If, notwithstanding these difficulties, he should still attempt the siege, there would be much occasion to fear from the strongholds of the enemy, which were left in the rear, and from which it would be easy, by vigorous sallies, to annoy an army distributed over so many places, and to expose it to want by cutting off its supplies.
— from History of the Revolt of the Netherlands — Complete by Friedrich Schiller

The Dravidian languages have no passive voice, this being expressed by verbs signifying 'to suffer' etc.
— from The Peoples of India by J. D. (James Drummond) Anderson

Cummerwillee , Paulkull , and Workull , are not far distant, produce Stones much alike out of the same coloured Earth, but very small ones even to a hundred in a mangelleen .
— from Miscellanea Curiosa, Vol. 3 containing a collection of curious travels, voyages, and natural histories of countries as they have been delivered in to the Royal Society by Royal Society (Great Britain)