At supper-time, my friend begged Silvia to speak to M. Lani in favour of our ‘protegee’, Silvia said that it was a much better plan than to solicit a miserable pension which, perhaps, would not be granted.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

And then great plots are talked to be discovered, and all the prisons in town full of ordinary people, taken from their meeting-places last Sunday.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

In 1761, though France had not, so to speak, a single ship-of-the-line at sea, and though the English had taken two hundred and forty of our privateers, their comrades still took eight hundred and twelve vessels.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

"My master does not oppose the opening of Hiôgo, but objects to its being opened after the fashion of other ports.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

Outside her home she always makes herself ridiculous and she is very rightly a butt for criticism, as we always are when we try to escape from our own position into one for which we are unfitted.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

A wild Australian was taken into a large room full of official papers, which surprised him greatly, and he cried out, cluck, cluck, cluck , putting the back of his hand towards his lips.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

Owing to the fact that no number of five figures can have a digital sum less than 15 or more than 35, we find that the figures of our product must sum to either 18 or 27 to produce the root 9, and to either 22 or 31 to produce the root 4.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

And now that her heart's mine you give me orders to fling it away, and punish her, kill her perhaps—for the faults of other people.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

182 Broth, see LIQUAMEN ; Barley ——, ℞ 172 , 200 , 201 —— How to redeem a spoiled, ℞ 9 BUBULA, Beef, flesh of oxen, p. 30 , ℞ 351 , 352 BUBULUS CASEUS, cow’s cheese BUCCA, BUCCEA, mouth, cheek; also a bite, a morsel, a mouth-full; Fr.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

Would to God it were true, that the fault of our peers were too much spirit.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

The crib-work of the walls is loaded with stone, and not clay or earth, as is commonly the case, in consequence of which the woodwork is not forced out of place by the expansion of the frozen filling, and does not rot so quickly.
— from Waterways and Water Transport in Different Countries With a description of the Panama, Suez, Manchester, Nicaraguan, and other canals. by J. Stephen (James Stephen) Jeans

After stating his [Pg 131] subject Scarlatti passes into a key closely related to that of the sonata, and gives a bit of what is called "passage work;" that is, florid or ornamental piano writing without a complete tune.
— from How Music Developed A Critical and Explanatory Account of the Growth of Modern Music by W. J. (William James) Henderson

And yet, though not surprising, this attitude of mind, in face of organic phenomena, is illogical, and is due partly to a misconception of the function of scientific interpretation, partly to influences arising from the course pursued by the historical development of scientific knowledge.
— from Animal Behaviour by C. Lloyd (Conwy Lloyd) Morgan

He wrote: "From our own production we can offer some one metals and aniline dye for cotton, viscose, wool, silk, leather.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

When the young woman conducted me hither, I was at once struck by the magnificent eastern window, the largest in England, which fills, or looks vast enough to fill, all that end of the cathedral,—a most splendid window, full of old painted glass, which looked as bright as sunshine, though the sun was not really shining through it.
— from Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 2. by Nathaniel Hawthorne

It is at all times advisable for men to stay at home who really cannot enter upon the active and arduous duties of a campaign with a full determination to fight and distinguish themselves, so as to attain not only honour but a pecuniary consideration in the form of pension on discharge, or such promotion while living and serving in the army, as will compensate the respectable civilian for exchanging a comparatively easy life at home for one of privations, dangers, and hardships in a foreign land.
— from The Young Dragoon: Every Day Life of a Soldier by Alfred W. (Alfred Wilks) Drayson

To lodge in a garret up four pairs of stairs, to dine in a cellar among footmen out of place, to translate ten hours a day for 402 the wages of a ditcher, to be hunted by bailiffs from one haunt of beggary and pestilence to another, from Grub Street to St. George’s Fields, and from St. George’s Fields to the alleys behind St. Martin’s church, to sleep on a bulk in June and amidst the ashes of a glass-house in December, to die in an hospital and to be buried in a parish vault, was the fate of more than one writer who, if he had lived thirty years earlier, would have been admitted to the sittings of the Kitcat or the Scriblerus club, would have sat in Parliament, and would have been entrusted with embassies to the High Allies; who, if he had lived in our time, would have found encouragement scarcely less munificent in Albemarle Street or in Paternoster Row.
— from Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays; Vol. 2 With a Memoir and Index by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

'Tis true the unities of Time , Place , and Action , which are generally allowed to be the Beauties of a Play, and which the French are so careful to observe, add all lusture to their Plays; nevertheleß, several of our Poets have given proof, that did our Nation more regard them, they could practice them with equal succeß: But as a correct Play is not so much understood, or at least regarded by the generality of Spectators; and that few of our Poets now-a-days write so much for Honour as Profit : they are therefore content to please at an easier rate.
— from Momus Triumphans: or, the Plagiaries of the English Stage (1688[1687]) by Gerard Langbaine

This botanist observed and figured a flower of Orchis palustris with tetramerous arrangement of parts, that is to say there were [Pg 367] four outer segments to the perianth, four petals, of which two were lip-like, four stamens, three of which were rudimentary, and an ovary with four parietal placentæ.
— from Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Maxwell T. (Maxwell Tylden) Masters

He was kindly in disposition, hospitable in manner, fond of outdoor pursuits and of animals, especially dogs.
— from McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey