I baithed my feet in cold water from which I experienced considerable releif.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

If then we have under nature variability and a powerful agent always ready to act and select, why should we doubt that variations in any way useful to beings, under their excessively complex relations of life, would be preserved, accumulated, and inherited?
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

Note 16 ( return ) [ Quid tam notum seculis quam protervia et cervicositas Romanorum?
— 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

There were those who made the tins for the canned meat; and their hands, too, were a maze of cuts, and each cut represented a chance for blood poisoning.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

As soon as he had locked himself in he looked, under the bed, opened all the closets, explored every corner, rummaged through all the furniture.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

She looked at the two rows of English people who were sitting at the table; at the row of white bottles of water and red bottles of wine that ran between the English people; at the portraits of the late Queen and the late Poet Laureate that hung behind the English people, heavily framed; at the notice of the English church (Rev. Cuthbert Eager, M. A. Oxon.), that was the only other decoration of the wall.
— from A Room with a View by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

COOK, a term well known in the Bankruptcy Courts, referring to accounts that have been meddled with, or COOKED , by the bankrupt; also the forming a balance sheet from general trade inferences; stated by a correspondent to have been first used in reference to the celebrated alteration of the accounts of the Eastern Counties Railway, by George Hudson, the Railway King.
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

There, the finest development of humanity, excellent constitutional regulations, wise laws, cleverly distributed offices, rationally ordered freedom, all the arts, as well as poetry and philosophy, at their best; the creation of works which after thousands of years have never been equalled and are almost works of a higher order of beings, whom we can never approach; life embellished by the noblest fellowship, as is portrayed in the Banquet of Xenophon.
— from Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer

para el cultivo del tabaco, porque en ciertas regiones es arenoso, pedregoso y poco húmedo.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Angels' breathless ballot Lingers to record thee; Imps in eager caucus Raffle for my soul.
— from Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete by Emily Dickinson

Centuries before, they had formed a confederation of cities in their land, whence they proceeded to establish commercial relations with the Mediterranean world.
— from A History of Spain founded on the Historia de España y de la civilización española of Rafael Altamira by Rafael Altamira

Redistribution is subject to the trademark license, especially commercial redistribution.
— from Suffrage Songs and Verses by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

On nearing the street the buzzing of an electric car reminded him that Claude was probably coming home.
— from The Side Of The Angels: A Novel by Basil King

Narthex , a space in early churches railed off from the rest for catechumens and penitents.
— from The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall

At the 21st line of page 38 , for "the elder cousin" read "the cousin by marriage;" and at the 31st line of p. 49 , "cousin by his mother's side" should be "cousin by his aunt's marriage."
— from The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by John Forster

[Transcriber's note: The Greek phrase in the above paragraph was transliterated as follows: teknia —tau, epsilon, kappa, nu, iota, alpha; mou —mu, omicron, upsilon; ous —omicron, upsilon, final sigma; odino —omega, delta, iota, nu, omega; mechris —mu, epsilon, chi, rho, iota, final sigma; ou —omicron, upsilon; morphothe —mu, omicron, rho, phi, omega, theta, eta; Christos —Chi, rho, iota, sigma, tau, omicron, final sigma; en —epsilon, nu; humin —(rough breathing mark) upsilon, mu, iota, nu] Don't imitate Uriah Heep with 'Yours most humbly.'
— from Letters to His Friends by Forbes Robinson

Det super heorðpenig in sancto die Jovis, sicut omnis liber facere debet, et adquietet inland domini sui, si submonitio fiat de sewarde, id est de custodia maris, vel de regis deorhege, et ceteris rebus que sue mensure sunt; et det suum cyricsceatum in festo Scĩ Martini.
— from The English Village Community Examined in its Relations to the Manorial and Tribal Systems and to the Common or Open Field System of Husbandry; An Essay in Economic History (Reprinted from the Fourth Edition) by Frederic Seebohm