Ergo efficiens causa melancholiae est calida et sicca intemperies, non frigida et sicca, quod multi opinati sunt, oritur enim a calore celebri assante sanguinem, &c. tum quod aromata sanguinem incendunt, solitudo, vigiliae, febris praecedens, meditatio, studium, et haec omnia calefaciunt, ergo ratum sit, &c. 2432 .
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

[112-2] esos crueles me han dejado una escopeta ... «
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

So home to dinner, and then to my office all the afternoon doing of business, and in the evening comes Mr. Hill (but no Andrews) and we spent the evening very finely, singing, supping and discoursing.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

On arriving in the Cherokee country Scott established headquarters at the capital, New Echota, whence, on May 10, he issued a proclamation to the Cherokee, warning them that the emigration must be commenced in haste and that before another moon had passed every Cherokee man, woman, and child must be in motion to join his brethren in the far West, according to the determination of the President, which he, the general, had come to enforce.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Occasionally, their language seems to touch the boundary line on the other side of which is conscious intelligence, but nothing approaching the clearness and definiteness of the early Chinese monotheism of the pre-Confucian classics is to be distinguished.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

It is a sharp spur to industry; and some of the most enterprising colored men in Baltimore hire themselves in this way.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

In the track of their discoveries, Eudoxus, Euctemon, Callippus, Meto, Philippus, Hipparchus, Aratus, and others discovered the risings and settings of the constellations, as well as weather prognostications from astronomy through [270] the study of the calendars, and this study they set forth and left to posterity.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

She put her hand to it, and a natural but involuntary excitement caused me to be very indiscreet.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Besides, the ship had a good stock of the madrepore Dendrophylia , known in Provence by the name sea fennel, and a poultice made from the dissolved flesh of its polyps will furnish an excellent cough medicine.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

So much Cully and Wilder, who assist at the examination, can make out for themselves.
— from The Lone Ranche by Mayne Reid

© 11Oct32; AA106318. Trustees under the will of Mary Baker Eddy (PWH); 3Feb60; R251398. Retrospection and introspection (Retrospection et introspection) Translated from the authorized English text, by Elizabeth Crouse, Mary L. Struve, & Albane Noyer.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1960 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

Ah, there was Mother Gander, not so podgy as most—in the blue silk of auld lang syne—if only she would get up—or even Charley Mott—there would be some spark of interest.
— from Jinny the Carrier by Israel Zangwill

In any case the recorded transaction did not prove a financial triumph for the purchaser, as the enterprise cost much in trouble and outlay and did not meet expenses.
— from Dutch and English on the Hudson: A Chronicle of Colonial New York by Maud Wilder Goodwin

Although the cliff houses of Verde valley had been known for many years, and the ruins here described are of the same general character, anyone who examines Casa Montezuma, on Beaver creek, and compares it with Honanki, will note differences of an adaptive nature.
— from Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 by Jesse Walter Fewkes

They resembled one of those elaborately combined movements in land warfare, whereby several separate columns are intended to be brought at the same time to the same point, but actually arrive one by one and are beaten off in detail.
— from The Influence of Sea Power upon the French Revolution and Empire 1793-1812, vol 1 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

Geographic coordinates: 44 00 N, 18 00 E Map references: Europe Area: total: 51,129 sq km land: 51,129 sq km water: 0 sq km Area - comparative: slightly smaller than West Virginia Land boundaries: total: 1,459 km border countries: Croatia 932 km, Montenegro 225 km, Serbia 302 km Coastline: 20 km Maritime claims: no data available Climate: hot summers and cold winters; areas of high elevation have short, cool summers and long, severe winters; mild, rainy winters along coast Terrain: mountains and valleys Elevation extremes: lowest point: Adriatic Sea 0 m highest point: Maglic 2,386 m Natural resources: coal, iron ore, bauxite, copper, lead, zinc, chromite, cobalt, manganese, nickel, clay, gypsum, salt, sand, forests, hydropower Land use: arable land: 19.61% permanent crops: 1.89% other: 78.5% (2005) Irrigated land: 30 sq km (2003) Natural hazards: destructive earthquakes Environment - current issues: air pollution from metallurgical plants; sites for disposing of urban waste are limited; water shortages and destruction of infrastructure because of the 1992-95 civil strife; deforestation Environment - international agreements: party to: Air Pollution, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Life Conservation, Ozone Layer Protection, Wetlands signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements Geography - note: within Bosnia and Herzegovina's recognized borders, the country is divided into a joint Bosniak/Croat Federation (about 51% of the territory) and the Bosnian Serb-led Republika Srpska or RS (about 49% of the territory); the region called Herzegovina is contiguous to Croatia and Serbia and Montenegro (Montenegro), and traditionally has been settled by an ethnic Croat majority in the west and an ethnic Serb majority in the east People Bosnia and Herzegovina Population: 4,498,976 (July 2006 est.)
— from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency