It is nice at high water; but when the tide is out it shoals away to nothing, and there is merely the stream of the Esk, running between banks of sand, with rocks here and there.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

Here in the Djowf their make resembles that in vogue at Damascus; but in Nejed and the eastern districts they are of a different and much more ornamental fashioning, very tall and slender, with several ornamental circles and mouldings in elegant relief, besides boasting long beak-shaped spouts and high steeples for covers.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Hal was a man of great knowledge and of excellent memory; and he could even remember being baptized, when he was three years old, by the priest Thanghrand, the year before Christianity was established by law in Iceland.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

It was even ridiculed by being referred to as "ninny broth" and "Turkey gruel."
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

For the Argive men were standing round and extolling the strength 29 of the young men, while the Argive women were extolling the mother to whose lot it had fallen to have such sons; and the mother being exceedingly rejoiced both by the deed itself and by the report made of it, took her stand in front of the image of the goddess and prayed that she would give to Cleobis and Biton her sons, who had honoured her 30 greatly, that gift which is best for man to receive: and after this prayer, when they had sacrificed and feasted, the young men lay down to sleep within the temple itself, and never rose again, but were held bound in this last end.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

The small and angular head of this man, his white hair and thick gray moustaches, caused him to be easily recognized by Baptistin, who had received an exact description of the expected visitor, and who was awaiting him in the hall.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

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— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

The weak emperor attempted to play them one against the other, and was himself in turn insulted, and the empire ravaged, by both.
— 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

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— from Beyond the Frontier: A Romance of Early Days in the Middle West by Randall Parrish

One extremely ripe banana (black spotted), eaten with cream
— from Encyclopedia of Diet: A Treatise on the Food Question, Vol. 3 of 5 by Eugene Christian

“Not exactly,” replied Benton, “but I’m mighty interested in one that was lost a good long time ago.”
— from The Radio Boys Under the Sea; or, The Hunt for Sunken Treasure by J. W. Duffield

Proceed, as with all cake mixtures, by getting everything ready before beginning to mix any of the ingredients, not forgetting the fire.
— from A Handbook of Invalid Cooking For the Use of Nurses in Training, Nurses in Private Practice, and Others Who Care for the Sick by Mary A. Boland

“What is past, said he, is beyond recal; but a subject of some importance to me, is the object of my present visit.—True it is, that your daughter was the object of my earliest affection—an affection which my bosom must ever retain ; but being separated by the will of Providence—for I view Providence as overruling all events for wise purposes—I betook myself to travel.
— from Alonzo and Melissa; Or, The Unfeeling Father: An American Tale by I. (Isaac) Mitchell

It is an exercise especially recommended by Baron Posse for brain workers.
— from How to Add Ten Years to your Life and to Double Its Satisfactions by S. S. (Samuel Silas) Curry

All the anxiety of conducting a column, which I have felt of late, is now off my mind, since water is to be found in every river bed; but our horses and mules are very tired and worn–out, the grass is all parched and practically useless as food, and yet there is no other to give them; the sun is powerful, and by eight o’clock the heat of the day is already beginning, the thermometer going up to 98 and 100 in the shade at midday.
— from The Matabele Campaign Being a Narrative of the Campaign in Suppressing the Native Rising in Matabeleland and Mashonaland, 1896 by Baden-Powell of Gilwell, Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, Baron

Dr. Montault jocosely observes that it is to be regretted that, to decide this controversy, recourse cannot be had to the experiments, recorded by Bacon, of an inquisitive person who hanged himself for the purpose of ascertaining if strangulation was a painful operation.
— from Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen