Behind this exclamation, which recurs automatically, we faintly discern a complete repeating-machine set going by a fixed idea.
— from Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic by Henri Bergson

a ogniuno Lo Suo et nel miſſero ſoura la ſpala Siniſtra aliq a lli ꝓ ſua fatica donaſſemo a ciaſcaduna vno paro de Cortelli venirono in caſa deL gouuernator̃ noue hominj
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

The impulse gone, I fell down and cried for her to take me up in her arms.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

CHAPTER 43 H er momentary weakness past, the child again summoned the resolution which had until now sustained her, and, endeavouring to keep steadily in her view the one idea that they were flying from disgrace and crime, and that her grandfather’s preservation must depend solely on her firmness, unaided by one word of advice or any helping hand, urged him onward and looked back no more.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

We are both of us inclined to be a little too positive; and I have observed the result of our disputes to be almost uniformly this—that in matters of fact, dates, and circumstances, it turns out, that I was in the right, and my cousin in the wrong.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

But why has he such a passionate love for destruction and chaos also?
— from Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Side below a creek of 20 yards wide and much water, as it was necessary to make Some Selestial observations we formed our Camp on the top of a high point of rocks, which forms a kind of fortification in the Point between the river & Creek, with a boat guard, this Situation we Concieve well Calculated for defence, and Conveniant to hunt under the foots of the mountain to the West & S. W. where timber of different kinds grows, and appears to be handsom Coverts for the Deer, in oke woods, Sent out hunters to examine for game G. D. Killed a Small Deer & other Saw much Sign, I killed a goose in the creek which was verry fat—one of the guard saw a Drum fish to day as he Conceved our Situation well Calculated to defend our Selves from any designs of the natives, Should They be enclined to attack us.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Between him and me, secret articles were signed of which Herbert was the subject, and I paid him half of my five hundred pounds down, and engaged for sundry other payments: some, to fall due at certain dates out of my income: some, contingent on my coming into my property.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

If we furthermore take into consideration the suggestions by Mack, quoted above, showing that a very great number of animals for drawing and carrying loads might be dispensed with by the introduction of electric power, we find that the breeding of cattle for nourishment might be considerably increased, or that much of the land used for pasture might be planted with food for man.
— from Woman and Socialism by August Bebel

I was seized the day after this fatal defeat and conducted to the Tower of London.
— from A Romance of the West Indies by Eugène Sue

And if their father wouldn’t do it they might be sure that the boys would not, for Dan and Cale looked for better times without doing a thing to bring them about.
— from A Rebellion in Dixie by Harry Castlemon

The name Nankeen in China was originally used to describe native hand-loom cloths of the above variety only, but as new and slightly different makes of native cloth appeared on the market the practice grew of including them under this heading, until gradually the term was used to describe not only the true Nankeen but a whole group of native cloths answering to the following description: all-cotton cloths not exceeding 20 inches in width, woven on a hand loom with a one-over and one-under shirting weave from cotton yarn which has not been previously dyed or mercerised, and including cloths of the above variety which have either been bleached, piece-dyed in solid greyish or blue colour, or woven from yarn previously dyed in greyish or blue colour, and including hand-loom-woven grey or bleached cotton cloths not exceeding 20 inches wide which have been ornamented by the introduction in the weave of a yarn-dyed blue stripe or yarn-dyed blue checkered design.
— from Piece Goods Manual Fabrics described; textile, knit goods, weaving terms, etc., explained; with notes on the classification of samples. by A. E. Blanco

The St Denis's Day of 1770, says the Mémoire , was celebrated, like the former ones, by a fête, designed and composed by the Dame Lebrun.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 356, June, 1845 by Various

Day after day we marched through a country superbly fitted for defence, a country where one might check a thousand and two make ten thousand look about them.
— from With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back by Edward P. Lowry

100 Camphor tooth-powder, 280 Canadian, English, or American castor, 185 , 186 Canango oil, 154 tincture, 234 Caraway oil, 100 , 101 Carbon, bisulphide of, 48 Carbonic acid, apparatus for developing a current of, 50 -52 Carob or St. John's bread, 209 Carthagena balsam, 166 Carvene, 100 Carvol, 35 , 100 Cassia oil, 103 , 104 tincture, 235 value of, 104 Cassie, oil of, 87 Castor, 31 adulterations of, 186 Castoreum or castor, 185 , 186 Castor oil, determination of, in volatile oil, 67 , 68 pomade, 293 or castoreum, 185 , 186 tincture, 229 Cedar oil, 101 tincture, 235 Ceylon cinnamon oil, 102 , 103 Chalk, 336 Chamomile oil, 99 , 100 Chapped hands, preparations for, 333 , 334 Chassis, 61 Cherry essence, 217 ether, 216 laurel oil, 101 , 102 tooth-paste, 278 non-fermenting, 278 Chloroform, alcohol, and benzine, quantitative determination of adulterations with, 72 , 73 detection of, in volatile oil, 71 Cineol, 123 Cinnamaldehyde, 103 quantitative determination of, 104 -106 Cinnamic acid, determination of, in benzoin, 158 , 159 Cinnamon leaves, oil of, and cinnamon-root oil, 104 oil tincture, 235 oils, 102 -106 Cinnamon root oil and oil of cinnamon leaves, 104 Citrene, 35 , 121 Citronella oil, 107 , 108 tincture, 235 Citronellol, 107 Citron oil, 106 , 107 Civet, 31 , 184 , 185 tincture, 228 Clove-oil tincture, 235 Cloves, oil of, 108 -110 Cold cream, 331 creams and lip-salves, 331 -335 Cologne water, 249 -254 durability of volatile oils used for, 250 , 251 preparation of, 249 , 250 receipts for, 252 -254 Coloring substances for dentifrices and mouth-waters, 272 for pomades, 286 Compound odors, 240 -245 Copper hair dye, 322 nitroprusside of, test, 75 -78 salts for dyeing the hair, 315 , 316 Cortex thymiamatis, 168 Cosmetics, 324 -342 and perfumeries in the Middle Ages, 26 , 27 and perfumes in Italy, 26 , 27 receipts for, in the writings of Arabian physicians, 26 Cream, boroglycerin, 333 cold, 331 glycerin, 332 of roses, 333 Récamier, 333 vaseline cold, 331 Crême de concombre, 332 de lys, 342 de rose, 342 Cumarin, 190 -193 manufacture of, 192 , 193 tincture, 232 Curled mint oil, 132 Currant essence, 217 Cymene, 121 Dandruff cures, 312 lotion, 312 Densdorf pomade, 290
— from A Practical Treatise on the Manufacture of Perfumery Comprising directions for making all kinds of perfumes, sachet powders, fumigating materials, dentrifices, cosmetics, etc., etc., with a full account of the volatile oils, balsams, resins, and other natural and artificial perfume-substances, including the manufacture of fruit ethers, and tests of their purity by C. (Carl) Deite

We reach Mendoza, beautifully situated, and watered by streams which flow from the Andes, giving life to many a fruitful sugar-cane plantation and vineyard, where under irrigation scientifically practised, from dams and conduits, the fertile soil yields up wealth in its most delightful forms, wealth of sugar, of wine, of deep pastures of alfalfa.
— from Spanish America, Its Romance, Reality and Future, Vol. 2 (of 2) by C. Reginald (Charles Reginald) Enock

Mr. Hollister made no call upon us for report till last October, and a few days after called personally at our office, examined our books, and in making out his assessment list went back as far as 1875.
— from Biography and Family Record of Lorenzo Snow One of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Eliza R. (Eliza Roxey) Snow