Every farmer, every laborer, every fisherman can both read and write—and we think that books instead of being locked up in cupboards, far from the sight of students, should be distributed as widely as possible.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

It may stand for broth, sauce, stock, gravy, drippings, even for court bouillon —in fact for any liquid appertaining to or derived from a certain dish or food material.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

Though he may not deem it prudent to take my life just now, the publication of this article I feel sure must compel Gen. Winters (with his peculiar views about his right to exemption from criticism by me) to resolve on my violent death, though it may take years to compass it.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

Mr. F. Smith has shown that the neuters of several British ants differ surprisingly from each other in size and sometimes in colour; and that the extreme forms can be linked together by individuals taken out of the same nest: I have myself compared perfect gradations of this kind.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

Lucy had hoped to return to Windy Corner when she escaped from Cecil, but she discovered that her home existed no longer.
— from A Room with a View by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

I have heard of ancient men, of good credit, report, that these single women were forbidden the rites of the church, so long as they continued that sinful life, and were excluded from Christian burial, [362] if they were not reconciled before their death.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

The family was expelled from Corinth by Cypselus, either on account of their luxury and extravagant mode of life, or because they were supposed to aim at the sovereignty.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

The negro's hour came with his emancipation from cruel bondage.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

The Professor was always uniformly ready for every friendly call, but as uniformly angry, if, forgetting the hour of his lecture, any one came during the half hour previous; he could be very angry.
— from Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Berthold Auerbach

And Nadia, the electrician, followed close behind the welder.
— from Spacehounds of IPC by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith

But, gentlemen, if deaf to the promptings of reason, of justice, and of humanity—if, impelled by political rancor and passion—you condemn these prisoners, and execution follows condemnation, be assured that they will meet their fate like men; and that these manacled hands, which you have so often disported through your streets to excited crowds, will, "though impotent here," be lifted, and not in vain, to a far more august tribunal than this, before whose unerring decrees Courts and nations alike must bow with awful reverence.
— from Trial of the Officers and Crew of the Privateer Savannah, on the Charge of Piracy, in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York by A. F. (Adolphus Frederick) Warburton

With this particularly plain and straightforward declaration, which he made with all the vehemence that his indignant and excited feelings could bring to bear upon it, Nicholas waiting to hear no more, retreated.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

{842} Men with reckless, evil passions increased the excitement; for cognac burned and whiskey infuriated, and the whole mass of humanity seemed consumed by the one madness, mutual hate!
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 07, April 1868 to September, 1868 by Various

I am a despicable being; you have taken pity on me; you have (deigned to) take me with you, and to eat food cooked by me.
— from Chaitanya's Life And Teachings From his contemporary Begali biography the Chaitanya-charit-amrita by Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmi

As we rounded a sunny wall in driving away, we saw a line of people, old and young of both sexes, but probably not of noble families, seated with their backs against the warm stone eating from comfortable bowls a soup which our driver said was the soup of charity and the daily dole of the fathers to such hungry as came for it.
— from Roman Holidays, and Others by William Dean Howells