His Ch'an, expressed in simple everyday language, seems merely so many ways of finding out who you are and what you are.
— from The Zen Experience by Thomas Hoover

In his vexation at not finding the value of x , he is driven from mathematical to mechanical biology, and gives us this new definitional value of life--that singularly contumacious quantity which so persistently refuses to be eliminated in scientific equations: "Life is molecular machinery worked by molecular force."
— from Life: Its True Genesis by Horatius Flaccus

‘Eau, parais dehors’; et il souffla, et l’eau fut créée.”
— from The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck

Wash the precipitate, dry, and extract with ether in Soxhlet extractors (loosely filled).
— from Some Constituents of the Poison Ivy Plant (Rhus Toxicodendron) by William Anderson Syme

[ Synopsis of Preceding Instalment :— Ralph Wonderson, the famous athlete, while on a mountaineering expedition in Switzerland, encounters Lady Margaret Tamerton, whom he has not seen since childhood.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 147, August 12, 1914 by Various

How restrain her in the future, even if she ever lives down the notoriety of this ridiculous prank?" he groaned.
— from The Senator's Favorite by Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.

As our college education in Scotland, extending little further than the languages, ends commonly when we are about fourteen or fifteen years of age, I was after that left to my own choice in my reading, and found it incline me almost equally to books of reasoning and philosophy, and to poetry and the polite authors.
— from Life and Correspondence of David Hume, Volume 1 (of 2) by John Hill Burton

Hogs and poee-poee were baking in numerous ovens, which, heaped up with fresh earth into slight elevations, looked like so many ant-hills.
— from Typee: A Romance of the South Seas by Herman Melville

According to Cicero (" de Orator ," lib. iii.), they supplied Arcesilas with the doctrines of the Middle Academy; and how closely these resembled the tenets of the Sceptics, may be seen even in Sextus Empiricus (lib. i. cap.
— from The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Thomas Moore

Boil twelve eggs just hard enough to allow you to cut them in slices--cut some crusts of bread very thin, put them in the bottom and round the sides of a moderately deep dish, place the eggs in, strewing each layer with the stale bread grated, and some pepper and salt.
— from The Virginia Housewife Or Methodical Cook by Mary Randolph