LIBER SEXTUS [Tac.] FRYING PAN, ROUND Provided with a lip to pour out fluids, a convenience which many modern pans lack.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

“He started for Paris riding post,” replied the innkeeper, who was also the post-master, “five minutes after you left.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

The General Problem: How is Cognition from Pure Reason Possible? § 5.
— from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant

Epaphus , having accused Phaëton of falsely asserting that Phœbus is his father, Phaëton requests Phœbus, as a proof of his affection towards his child, to allow him the guidance of the viii chariot of the Sun for one day.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

p. , S3; relessed , pt. s. , forgave, C2; relesed , pp. , forgiven, PP; relessed , PP.—AF.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

H2 anchor XI WICK CUTTER WAS the money-lender who had fleeced poor Russian Peter.
— from My Antonia by Willa Cather

In spite, therefore, of France's victorious issue from the present struggle (with the aid, this time, of England and America), her future position remained precarious in the eyes of one who took the view that European civil war is to be regarded as a normal, or at least a recurrent, state of affairs for the future, and that the sort of conflicts between organized great powers which have occupied the past hundred years will also engage the next.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes

Ed ecco, quasi al cominciar de l'erta, una lonza leggera e presta molto, che di pel macolato era coverta; e non mi si partia dinanzi al volto, anzi 'mpediva tanto il mio cammino, ch'i' fui per ritornar piu` volte volto.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Gay the repast, for plenty reigned, [Pg 28] Nothing was wanting to the fare; But hardly had it well begun Ere chance disturbed the friendly pair.
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

for Platæon read Platæan.
— from The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 by Karl Otfried Müller

508 In December 1693 a party of 170 {260} swooped down in the night upon St. Davids, only seven leagues from Port Royal, plundered the whole parish, and got away again with 370 slaves.
— from The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century by Clarence Henry Haring

[B] Apples, as purchased, average 34 1.2 3 7 90 Apricots, as purchased, average 35 1.24 7 3 90 [B] Dates, edible portion, average Three large 28 .99 2 7 91 [B] Dates, as purchased 31 1.1 2 7 91 [B] Figs, edible portion, average One large 31 1.1 5 0 95 [B] Prunes, edible portion, average Three large 32 1.14 3 0 97 [B] Prunes, as purchased 38 1.35 3 0 97 [B] Raisins, edible portion, average 28 1. 3 9 88 [B] Raisins, as purchased 31 1.1 3 9 88 CEREALS [B] Bread, brown, as purchased, average Ordinary thick slice 43 1.5 9 7 84 [B] Bread, corn (johnnycake) as purchased, average Small square 38 1.3 12 10 72 [B] Bread, white, home made, as purchased Ordinary thick slice 38 1.3 13 6 81 Corn flakes, toasted Ordinary cereal dishful 27 .97 11 1 88 [B] Corn meal, granular, average 27 .96 10 5 85 [B] Corn meal, unbolted, edible portion, average 26 .92 9 11 80 [B] Crackers, graham, as purchased Two crackers 23 .82 9 20 71 [B] Crackers, oatmeal, as purchased Two crackers 23 .81 11 24 65 [B] Hominy, cooked Large serving 120 4.2 11 2 87 [B] Macaroni, average 27 .96 16 2 83 [B] Macaroni, average, cooked Ordinary serving 110 3.85 14 15 71 [B] Oatmeal, average, boiled One and a half serving 159 5.6 18 7 75 [B] Popcorn, average 24 .86 11 11 78 [B] Rice, uncooked 28 .98 9 1 90 [B] Rice, boiled, average Ordinary cereal dish 87 3.1 10 1 89 [B] Rice, flakes Ordinary cereal dish 27 .94 8 1 91 [B] Rolls, Vienna, as purchased, average One large roll 35 1.2 12 7 81 [B] Shredded wheat One biscuit 27 .94 13 4.5 82.5 [B] Spaghetti, average 28 .97 12 1 87 [B] Wheat flour, entire wheat average 27 .96 15 5 80 [B] Wheat flour, graham, average 27 .96 15 5 80 [B] Wheat flour, patent roller process, family and straight grade spring wheat, average 27 .97 12 3 85 [B] Zwieback Size of thick slice bread 23 .81 9 21 70 DAIRY PRODUCTS [B] Butter, as purchased Ordinary pat or ball 12.5 .44 .5 99.5 00 [B] Buttermilk, as purchased One and a half glass 275 9.7 34 12 54 [B] Cheese, American, pale, as purchased One and a half cubic in 22 .77 25 73 2 [B] Cheese, cottage, as purchased Four cubic in 89 3.12 76 8 16 [B] Cheese, full cream, as purchased One and a half cubic in.
— from How to Live: Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science by Irving Fisher

This habit is more easily observed in those which frequent the farm-yards, where the domestic fowls prove regular purveyors to them.
— from Ornithological Biography, Volume 1 (of 5) An Account of the Habits of the Birds of the United States of America by John James Audubon

Any genealogical detail from public records prior to that period, would be useful in tracing the descent.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 227, March 4, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

The Chamber paid fifty pounds rent per annum for the use of the room to Mrs. Smith, the landlady at the time.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

In the first place, Robert Palmer's will distinctly stated that everything was left to the judgment of the executors.
— from Forty-one Thieves A Tale of California by Angelo Hall

But when they are once collected in a large public gallery, if the appointment of curator becomes in any way a matter of formality, or the post is so lucrative as to be disputed by place-hunters, let but one foolish or careless person get possession of it, and perhaps you may have all your fine pictures repainted, [Pg 66] and the national property destroyed, in a month.
— from Unto This Last, and Other Essays on Political Economy by John Ruskin