All night I listened to every sound, that I might be the first to welcome them on the threshold.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

One hundred and eighty stadia thence is Miletus 4021 , 467 the capital of Ionia, which formerly had the names of Lelegëis, Pityusa, and Anactoria, the mother of more than ninety cities, founded upon all seas; nor must she be deprived of the honour of having Cadmus 4022 for her citizen, who was the first to write in prose.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

So far I reasoned, and it took nothing less than that technical rigour, I now easily see, to inspire me with the right confidence for erecting on such a plot of ground the neat and careful and proportioned pile of bricks that arches over it and that was thus to form, constructionally speaking, a literary monument.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

“A friend!” repeated the sage, on whose brow a dark frown settled, imparting a portion of that severity which had rendered his eye so terrible in middle age.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

It must be deep-rooted, so as to supply comedy with inexhaustible matter, and yet superficial, in order that it may remain within the scope of comedy; invisible to its actual owner, for the comic ever partakes of the unconscious, but visible to everybody else, so that it may call forth general laughter, extremely considerate to its own self, so that it may be displayed without scruple, but troublesome to others, so that they may repress it without pity; immediately repressible, so that our laughter may not have been wasted, but sure of reappearing under fresh aspects, so that laughter may always find something to do; inseparable from social life, although insufferable to society; capable—in order that it may assume the greatest imaginable variety of forms—of being tacked on to all the vices and even to a good many virtues.
— from Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic by Henri Bergson

But, starting with species already somewhat like each other, the closest resemblance, if beneficial, could readily be gained by the above means, and if the imitated form was subsequently and gradually modified through any agency, the imitating form would be led along the same track, and thus be altered to almost any extent, so that it might ultimately assume an appearance or colouring wholly unlike that of the other members of the family to which it belonged.
— 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

For a short time after our entrance into power we shall encourage its existence so that it may show in greater relief the contrast between it and the written and spoken announcements which will emanate from us."
— from The International Jew : The World's Foremost Problem by Anonymous

I hated my face, for instance: I thought it disgusting, and even suspected that there was something base in my expression, and so every day when I turned up at the office I tried to behave as independently as possible, and to assume a lofty expression, so that I might not be suspected of being abject.
— from Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

That accounts for erratic speeches, though I meant it all.
— from Winston of the Prairie by Harold Bindloss

The great importance of the questions; the fearful responsibility for the many thousands of lives which, by the refusal to exchange, were sacrificed by the most cruel forms of death, from cold, starvation, and pestilence of the prison-pens of Raleigh and Andersonville, being more than all the British soldiers killed in the wars of Napoleon; the anxiety of fathers, brothers, sisters, mothers, wives, to know the exigency which caused this terrible, and perhaps, as it may have seemed to them, useless and unnecessary, destruction of those dear to them, by horrible deaths, each and all have compelled me to this exposition, so that it may be seen that those lives were spent as a part of the system of attack upon the rebellion, devised by the wisdom of the General-in-Chief of the armies, to destroy it by depletion, depending upon our superior numbers to win the victory at last.
— from The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 2 by Jefferson Davis

Then it must be added that there were fewer involved sentences in Mr. Douglas's extempore speeches than in Mr. Lincoln's.
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete by Abraham Lincoln

It is enough to trace the further movements of the King to perceive how at every step the iron must have entered deeper and deeper into the heart of the Maid.
— from Jeanne D'Arc: Her Life And Death by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

Careful examination shows that in many instances the most minute particles visible under a lens, have assumed the rhombic form so common to the carbonate of lime.
— from James's Account of S. H. Long's Expedition, 1819-1820, part 4 by Thomas Say

Music may be a very trying thing, especially for women, and for those who have souls extremely sensitive to its manifold effects.
— from Psychotherapy Including the History of the Use of Mental Influence, Directly and Indirectly, in Healing and the Principles for the Application of Energies Derived from the Mind to the Treatment of Disease by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

By such means I should certainly render you more efficient service than if my regiments were to form a part of your force."
— from With Moore at Corunna by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

84 Dublin, Black Assizes of 1776, 98 , question of enteric fever in 1826, 187 , typhus in 1682, 228 , nervous fever in 1734, 239 , relapsing fever in 1738-9, 240 , dysentery and fever 1740-41, 241-2 , relapsing fever in 1746-8, 245 , putrid fevers in 1754-62, 245-6 , fevers of 1799-1802, 249-50 , dysentery and relapsing fever 1825-26, 271 , intermittent fever in 1827, 273 , typhus in 1837, 277 , fever of 1864-5, 297 , recent enteric fever, 299 , influenza of 1688, 336 , of 1693, 337 , horse-colds, 345 , 354 , malignant smallpox, 549 , mild and severe scarlatina, 722 , 724 , cholera of 1832, 816 , of 1849, 839 Dundalk, camp sickness, 230 Dundee, typhus of 1836, 192-3 , relapsing and typhus in 1842, 204 , hospital cases of typhus, 210 , dysentery, 789 , cholera of 1832, 814 , of 1849, 838 , of 1853, 855 , of 1866, 859 Dunkirk rant , 340 Dunse, smallpox in 1733, 527 , inoculation revived, 590 Duvillard, M., on saving of life by vaccination, 629 Dysentery , four degrees of epidemic prevalence, 774 , severe during plague in London, 774 , names of in bills of mortality, 775 , London epidemics of 1669-72, 776 , in Scotland 1731-37, 777 , in London in 1762, 778 , symptoms of in Newcastle in 1758-9, 780-1 , Akenside’s theory of its pathology, 782 , epidemic period of 1779-85, 783 , in a Scots fishing village in 1789, 784 , epidemic period 1800-2, 785 , in Glasgow in 1827-29, 786 , in Edinburgh 1828, 787 , in Wakefield Asylum, 787 , occasions of in 1827-29, 787 , [Pg 870] in Scotland in 1836, 789 , at Taunton workhouse in 1837, 790 , at Penzance in 1848, 790-1 , during the cholera of 1849, 791 , 842 , relation of to typhus fever, 792 Earlsoham, malignant fever in a farmhouse, 161 East Indiamen , fevers in, 117 Edinburgh, mortality bills of 1740-41, 82 , 523 , fevers of 1699, 49 , worm fever in 1731-32, 75 , relapsing fever in 1735, 76 , state of the poor in 1818, 174 , types of fever 1817-19, 174-5 , fever cases in general wards of Infirmary, 179 , relapsing fever of 1827-29, 182 , little enteric fever, 187 , 199-200 , 202 , typhus of 1836-39, 192 , relapsing fever of 1843-44, 204 , Irish fever of 1846-48, 208 , typhus and enteric of 1864, 210 , relapsing of 1870, 211 note , influenza of 1733, 346 , of 1743, 351 , of 1758, 353 , of 1775, 361 , smallpox in 18th cent., 523 , in 1817, 575 , in 1830-31, 600 , measles in 1735, 642 , in 1740-41, 643 , in 1808, 651-2 , whooping-cough in 1740-41, 670 , scarlatina in 1684, 681 , in 1733, 684 , Cullen’s experiences of the same, 737 , in 1804-5, 721 , in 1832-33, 725 , dysentery in 1734, 777 , in 1828, 787 , the “New-Town Epidemic” of 1828, 788 , cholera of 1832, 807 , 812 , of 1848, 835 , of 1853-4, 855 Ellenborough, Lord Chief Justice, opposes Vaccination Bill, 609 Ellenborough, second Earl of, brings in Vaccination Bill, 606 Elliotson, John, agues in 1826-28, 378 Elyot, Sir Thomas, infantile maladies of 16th cent., 666 Ennis, chief months of fever 1846-48, 288 Enteric Fever , epidemic of 1661 identified as, 8 note , “little fever” identified as, 70 , probable cases of in 1804-10, 165 , in London in 1826, 183-6 , alleged at North Tawton in 1839, 196 note , at Anstruther in 1835-39, 199 , at Edinburgh, 199-200 , Lombard on proportion of in Britain, 201 , prevalence of since 1869, 211 , favouring conditions of, 217 , highest English death-rates, 218 , explosions of, 220 , age-incidence fatality and predisposition to, 222-3 , Edinburgh New Town epidemic of 1828, 788 note Epidemic Constitutions copied by Sydenham from Hippocrates, 10 Evelyn, John, the winter of 1653-4, 23 , Norwich graveyards, 38 , bark prescribed for Charles II., 323 , last illness of Charles II., 324 , “new fever” of 1678, 330 , attack of ague, 331 note , treated in smallpox, 445 Exeter, influenza of 1729, 345 , of 1775, 360 , of 1837, 386 , smallpox of 1837, 604 , measles in 1824, 662 , cholera of 1832, 829 , cholera and water-supply, 854 Faröe Islands, strangers’ cold, 432 Farr, William, endorses Watt’s doctrine of displacement, 658 , cholera and elevation of ground, 847 , cholera and Newcastle drinking-water, 850 Febricula or “little fever” of 1720-30, 67-70 Feckenheim, camp sickness, 108 Ferguson, Dr, of Aberdeen, measles in 1808, 651-2 Ferguson, Robert, favours inoculation in 1825, 592 Ferriar, John, typhus severe in migrants to towns, 101 , fevers in Manchester, 149 , need for fever-hospitals, 158 , troubles of a young couple, 552 Ferryden, cholera in 1833, 815 , 834 Fever Hospitals , committee on in 1818, 178 Fire of London , alleged effect on plague, 42 Fletcher, Andrew, state of Scotland end of 17th cent., 49 “ Flox and Smallpox ,” meaning of, 436 note Forbes, Sir John, inoculation in Sussex, 591 Fordyce, John, miliary fever, 130 Fordyce, Sir William, malignant sore-throat in 1773, 707 , prevalence of rickets, 756 Foster, Sir Michael, Old Bailey Black Assizes, 93 Foster, Sir Walter, on cerebro-spinal fever diagnosed as typhoid, 863 Fothergill, Anthony, influenza of 1775, 359 , in horses, 361 Fothergill, John, fevers of 1751-55, 122 , collective inquiry on influenza of 1782, 360 , smallpox of 1751, 453 , 529 , objections to the Parish Clerks’ bills, 530 , 638 note , epidemic sore-throat 1746-48, 696 , 737 Fothergill, Samuel, scarlatina in 1814, 723 Fowler, Thomas, arsenic in ague, 368 Freind, John, Sydenham’s varieties of fever, 27 note , petition to Commons on drink, 84 , sickness of Peterborough’s expedition 1705, 106 , adverse to inoculation, 478 Frewen, Thomas, methods of inoculation, 492 , Boerhaave’s antidotes, 494 note Fuller, Thomas, inoculation, 489 note Gaddesden, John of, uses “mesles” for morbilli , 632 [Pg 871] Gairloch, fevers in 18th cent., 155 Galway, plague of 1649, 227 , fever of 1741, 243 , fever of 1821-22, 269 , gaol fever in 1848, 291 , cholera of 1832, 816 , of 1849, 839 Gaol Fever , 90-95 , Howard’s discoveries of, 95-97 , Lettsom’s cases, 97 , infection of in ships, 114 , in 1783-55, 153 , Neild’s inquiries, 628 Gaskell, Mrs, the fever episode in ‘Jane Eyre,’ 181 note , distress of the working class in Manchester in 1839-41, 197 Gateshead, fever in 1790, 142 , cholera in 1832, 803 , cholera in 1853, 849 Gatti, Angelo, method and results of inoculation, 495-7 Gaulter, Henry, Manchester cholera of 1832, 826 Geach, Francis, influenza and astrology, 405 , dysentery of, 1781, 783 Geary, W. J., the Limerick poor in 1836, 275 , age-incidence of typhus, 276 Geneva, vital statistics of, 443 note , 623 George I. sanctions inoculation, 468-9 George Ham, epidemic pneumonia (?) in 1747, 355 Germany, names of influenza in 1712, 339 , apparent extinction of smallpox, 612 , re-vaccination, 612 Gibraltar, ship fever at, 115 , influenza of 1837, 388 Gilchrist, Ebenezer, nervous fever of 1735, 75 , inoculations at Dumfries, 509 Gladstone, rt. hon.
— from A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume 2 (of 2) From the Extinction of Plague to the Present Time by Charles Creighton

The cost of the prepared product is scarcely greater than that of the original fruit, differing with the supply and price of the latter; the keeping qualities are excellent, so that it may be had at any time of the year and bears long sea-voyages with out detriment.
— from The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) Cooking, Toilet and Household Recipes, Menus, Dinner-Giving, Table Etiquette, Care of the Sick, Health Suggestions, Facts Worth Knowing, Etc., Etc. The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home by Hugo Ziemann

Each said, "That is me, and no one else."
— from Brighter Britain! (Volume 2 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand by W. Delisle (William Delisle) Hay