We quit our homes and tender wives, To lead with savage beasts our lives-- No more to welcome into day A progeny for Rome a prey.
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

They spoke in nineteen different cities and towns, Mrs. Hooker assuming all financial responsibility and paying Miss Anthony $25 for each lecture.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

IMG IMG This Figure represents Assyrian priests offering in the presence of what is supposed to be Baal—or the representative of the sun god and of the grove.
— from Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism With an Essay on Baal Worship, on the Assyrian Sacred "Grove," and Other Allied Symbols by Thomas Inman

For replacing a protruding bone in a case of compound fracture Celsus (VIII.
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

if you are thus weary of your lives, is it so difficult for you to find ropes and precipices?"
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

JEANNETTE, born in 1758; cook for Ragon at Paris in 1818, in rue du Petit-Lion-Saint-Sulpice; distinguished herself at the Sunday receptions.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

As he was mentioning this to me, another monkey attacked a rhesus , and I saw its face redden as plainly as that of a man in a violent passion.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

It was feared that the vanquished might have taken to them for refuge, and Prefect Gisquet was to search occult Paris while General Bugeaud swept public Paris; a double and connected operation which exacted a double strategy on the part of the public force, represented above by the army and below by the police.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

ración f ration, allowance, portion.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

I suppose you know Sir Pitt's father refused a peerage.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

One man thinks faster than another man for reasons as purely physical as those which give to one man a faster gait than that of another.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. by Various

Once at a splendid dinner-party at Lord ——’s, they suddenly missed Garrick, and could not imagine what was become of him, till they were drawn to the window by the convulsive screams and peals of laughter of a young negro boy, who was rolling on the ground in an ecstasy of delight to see Garrick mimicking a turkey-cock in the court-yard, with his coat-tail stuck out behind, and in a seeming flutter of feathered rage and pride.
— from Winterslow: Essays and Characters Written There by William Hazlitt

" Ruby was not really very hungry, but she wanted to be as much like the Swiss Family Robinson as possible, so she sat up and sleepily nibbled at some cookies.
— from Ruby at School by Paull, George A., Mrs.

The evenings at Merida are the gayest times, for then all folks, rich and poor, come out to spend the cool hours in the plaza.
— from The American Egypt: A Record of Travel in Yucatan by Frederick J. Tabor Frost

Perhaps the oval (** ) in the top of the head in figure 27 , f - h , and the small curling fang (††) represented as protruding from the back part of the mouth are as constant as any of the other elements.
— from An Introduction to the Study of the Maya Hieroglyphs by Sylvanus Griswold Morley

Also the Method of chusing the best Hair and Indian Grass ; of the proper Times and Seasons for River and Pond Fishing ; when Fish Spawn ; and what Baits are chiefly to be used.
— from The Æsculapian Labyrinth Explored; Or, Medical Mystery Illustrated by William Taplin

Leaving the sanctuary of the Christian Deity, the heathen temple of Terpsichore, and the effigy of the renowned soldier, thus grouped together, we traverse the fine road, and pause for a moment to look at a severe but elegant structure, erected, we are told, in exact imitation of a Roman castrum , or fortress, and therefore eminently in character with the purpose for which it is intended.
— from A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France by William Duthie

37 Early Irish writing is in two forms, round and pointed.
— from Illumination and Its Development in the Present Day by Sidney Farnsworth