It has a break in the middle, but it makes so little show that even Captain Cook sailed by it without seeing it.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

But these animals did not take to flight so rapidly but what the electric capsule could stop their course.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

Qual e` colui che si` presso ha 'l riprezzo de la quartana, c'ha gia` l'unghie smorte, e triema tutto pur guardando 'l rezzo, tal divenn'io a le parole porte; ma vergogna mi fe' le sue minacce, che innanzi a buon segnor fa servo forte.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

verb [ sub , below , + sequor , follow ], follow close after, follow up suc-cēdō, -ere, -cessī, -cessus [ sub , below , + cēdō , go ], follow, succeed suī , reflexive pron. of himself (herself, itself, themselves) ( § 480 ).
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

If he had not been driven beyond the limits of endurance, he would not have ventured to express certain conjectures so openly.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

to ‘ ask ,’ inquire, seek for, demand , Æ, KC, WG , etc.; CP: call, summon , B, Gen : (+) learn by inquiry, discover, hear of , Chr : (†) announce . āsciendlic (āx-)
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

And so King Louis sat him down; first here, then there; for a difficulty arose, the Constitution not permitting us to debate while the King is present: finally he settles himself with his Family in the 'Loge of the Logographe' in the Reporter's-Box of a Journalist: which is beyond the enchanted Constitutional Circuit, separated from it by a rail.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

So, in our swift cruise through these deep strata, how many vessels I saw lying on the seafloor, some already caked with coral, others clad only in a layer of rust, plus anchors, cannons, shells, iron fittings, propeller blades, parts of engines, cracked cylinders, staved–in boilers, then hulls floating in midwater, here upright, there overturned.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

“My dear Eleanor,” cried Catherine, suppressing her feelings as well as she could, “do not be so distressed.
— from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

The Crackarades of Balists or stone-throwing Engines, Contrepate Clerks, Scriveners, Brief-writers, Rapporters, and Papal Bull-despatchers lately compiled by Regis.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

There is a little village on its east coast, called Samos, from which the boat sails to Ithaca, and as an island called Samé is often mentioned in the Odyssey in connection with Ithaca, and the subjects of Odysseus are sometimes called Cephallenians, we are evidently not far from the scenes depicted by the great poet.
— from Greece Painted by John Fulleylove; described by J.A. McClymont by J. A. (James Alexander) M'Clymont

There were monopolies on certain smoked fish, fish oil, seal oil, oil of blubber, vinegar, salt, currants, aniseed, juniper berry liquor, bottles, glasses, brushes, pots, bags, cloth, starch, steel, tin, iron, cards, horn, ox shinbones, ashes, leather pieces, earth coal, calamite stone, powder, saltpeter, and lead manufacturing by-products.
— from Our Legal Heritage: King AEthelbert - King George III, 600 A.D. - 1776 by S. A. Reilly

This is the way it was prepared at the old Pup restaurant, one of the noted restaurants before the fire and earthquake changed conditions: Shrimp Creole Take three pints of unshelled shrimps and shell them, one-half pint of cream, two tablespoonfuls of butter, two tablespoonfuls of flour, two tablespoonfuls of catsup, one wine glass of sherry, paprika, chili powder and parsley.
— from Bohemian San Francisco Its restaurants and their most famous recipes—The elegant art of dining. by Clarence E. (Clarence Edgar) Edwords

The advantage of this type of map over that employed by Mallet is just this: Davison's earthquake map of Japan in which the active volcanoes are marked by dots, and the earthquakes by contour lines surrounding the points of origin, discloses the interesting fact that here the positions of the volcanoes and the earthquake centres coincide, since the mountainous districts where the active volcanoes are numerous are singularly free from earthquakes.
— from The Wonder Book of Volcanoes and Earthquakes by Edwin J. (Edwin James) Houston

He had taken luncheon with King Smith, had eaten baked fishes with the eternal cokernut cream sauce and a conserve of guavas which was one of the King’s trade-items.
— from The Exiles of Faloo by Barry Pain

4. A clause in the preamble of this act bears a significantly Erastian complexion: come seinte Eglise estoit founde en estat de prelacie deins le royaulme Dengleterre par le dit Roi et ses progenitours, et countes, barons, et nobles de ce Royaulme et lours ancestres, pour eux et le poeple enfourmer de la lei Dieu.
— from The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) by James Anthony Froude

The excited Captain Cornell stared incredulously at his informant.
— from The Radio Boys with the Border Patrol by Gerald Breckenridge

According to Mr. D. M‘Lennan there is: not only are there "numerous societies of which the patriarchal theory does not even attempt to give any account," but "in the societies upon contemplation of which it was formed, a most serious difficulty for it is presented by the tribes, which consist of several clans, each clan considered separate in blood from all the others.
— from Plutarch's Romane Questions With dissertations on Italian cults, myths, taboos, man-worship, aryan marriage, sympathetic magic and the eating of beans by Plutarch