For like reasons, a tribe which depends for its subsistence, chiefly or in part, upon fishing is careful to treat the fish with every mark of honour and respect.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

On breaking it open the edible portion of the fruit is seen, consisting of 6–18 seeds covered by a white, sweet pulp, cottony in appearance, of a delicious slightly acrid flavor.
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera

He occasionally broke forth into sentences composed of invectives joined together in a long string.
— from Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane

It may be found in several collections of Voyages, and there is a good Spanish translation and edition of recent date.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

Mr. Bryan has visited the Philippines, and his evidence is simply cumulative of mine, as mine, based on six years’ acquaintance with the Filipinos, is simply cumulative of Admiral Dewey’s testimony of 1898, so often cited hereinbefore, and of the opinion of Hon.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

His behaviour after the death of his brother, Lord Falmouth, is severely commented on in “Poems on State
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Here I hear Mrs. Martin is gone out of town, and that her husband, an idle fellow, is since come out of France, as he pretends, but I believe not that he hath been.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

No, I know that; but it is fit I should commit offence to my inferiors.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

When the spring is not properly centered the [Pg 68] reason is of course found in some curve of the over coil and the most usual point at fault is the section or curve on which the regulator pins act.
— from Rules and Practice for Adjusting Watches by Walter J. (Walter John) Kleinlein

Do not let us fail in small courtesies on the road of life.
— from Harper's Round Table, September 10, 1895 by Various

The woodcut border which is found in some copies of the Ales and Latteburius is the earliest found in English printing, though Caxton uses woodcut engravings in the text (for the first time) in the same year.
— from The Early Oxford Press A Bibliography of Printing and Publishing at Oxford, '1468'-1640; With Notes, Appendixes and Illustrations by Falconer Madan

Only, as San Francisco is so convivial, one naturally imbibes a good deal, especially with friends addicted to the 'cocktail route'—and I am afraid I shall have to give up the city for the present and stick to work."
— from Ancestors: A Novel by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

As Kate and her young companions found it somewhat cold on the top of the giant’s head, they very soon descended; and then all the boys amused themselves by climbing up and about the monster, till they ran no small risk of pulling him bodily down.
— from Digby Heathcote: The Early Days of a Country Gentleman's Son and Heir by William Henry Giles Kingston

The Catalogus Testimoniorum, with the superscription "Appendix" (found in some copies only).
— from Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church by F. (Friedrich) Bente

He roams the forest, inhabits some cave or hollow tree, and lives on the food which nature spontaneously offers to his hairy hand.
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation Including Some Strictures Upon the Theories of Rev. Henry L. Mansel and Mr. Herbert Spencer by Jesse Henry Jones