And had it not been for his wonderful agility he had been fried like a roasting pig.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

If the fourth right arch, instead of the fourth left (aorta), remained pervious , the systemic aortic arch would then be turned to the right side of the vertebral column, and have the trachea and oesophagus on its left .
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

When they again came on deck they were just passing some straggling islets, darkly green in the fast fading light, and rounding Pointe Noire,—the fitly-named dark point of rock that guards the entrance to the strange mysterious dark northern fiord about which have gathered so many a marvelous story.
— from Down the River to the Sea by Agnes Maule Machar

Suráj graciously permitted his velvet nose to be stroked by alien fingers, light as rose petals.
— from Far to Seek A Romance of England and India by Maud Diver

Multitudes, impelled by the unnatural [pg 442] dictates of a gloomy superstition, deprived their children of fertile lands and rich patrimonies in favour of the monks, by whose prayers they hoped to render the Deity propitious" (p. 161).
— from Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History by Annie Besant

7 is a sectional view of arrangement for lighting, and ratchet plate, j, with central spindle and igniting apertures, and the spiral spring, k, and fly nut, showing the attachment to the end of the working cylinder, f 1 ; b 5 , b 5 , bevel wheels driving the valve gear shaft; e, the valve gear driving shaft; e 2 , eccentric to drive pump; e³, eccentric or cam to drive exhaust valve; e 4 , crank to drive ratchet plate; e 5 , connecting rod to ratchet pawl; f, cylinder jacket; f 1 , internal or working cylinder; f 2 , back cylinder cover; g, igniting chamber; h, mixing chamber; h 1 , flap valve; h 2 , gas inlet valve, the motion of which is regulated by a governor; h 3 , gas inlet valve seat; h 4 , cover, also forming stop for gas inlet valve; h 5 , gas inlet pipe; h 6 , an inlet valve; h 8 , cover, also forming stop for air inlet valve; h 9 , inlet pipe for air with grating; i, exhaust chamber; i 2 , exhaust valve spindle; i 7 , exhaust pipe; j 6 , lighting aperture through cylinder end; l, igniting gas jet; m, regulating and stop valve for gas.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 360, November 25, 1882 by Various

Long before Cuvier, Leibnitz said, “Our body is in a perpetual flux, like a river; particles enter and leave it continually.”
— from Things to be Remembered in Daily Life With Personal Experiences and Recollections by John Timbs

Thus it is now come to passe, that women are become men, and men transformed into monsters: and those good gifts which almightie God hath giuen vnto vs to reléeue our necessities withall (as a nation turning altogither the grace of God into wantonnesse, for Luxuriant animi rebus plerunque secundis) not otherwise bestowed than in all excesse, as if we wist not otherwise how to consume and wast them.
— from Holinshed Chronicles: England, Scotland, and Ireland. Volume 1, Complete by William Harrison

The frames are now all ready for setting up and about the one half of the filling up pieces ready, of the covering planks 18 feet long are ready plank of ten feet for doors &c and boards of two feet for the gable ends are also ready.—There have been 7 men
— from The Washington Historical Quarterly, Volume V, 1914 by Various

“Yet no one would expect a woman like this to fall like a ripe plum into a man’s mouth,” he thought presently; “she will drop only when she has quite made up her mind, and the bough will need a good deal of shaking!”
— from Robinetta by Jane Helen Findlater

“nunc ite, sorores, dum matutinis praesudat solibus aër, 120 dum meus umectat flaventes Lucifer agros roranti praevectus equo.”
— from Claudian, volume 2 (of 2) With an English translation by Maurice Platnauer by Claudius Claudianus