As children were not thought to have enemies, they used to speak of a man as ‘the father, uncle, or cousin of So-and-so,’ naming a child; but on all occasions abstained from mentioning the name of a grown-up person.”
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Their Food should chiefly consist of Herbage, Fruits, of Substances inclining to Acidity, and which tend to keep the Body open; they should drink Water, and some of the light white Wines; by no Means omitting the frequent Use of Cream of Tartar.
— from Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David) Tissot

The author proceeds to state that neither he nor any one else in Amboyna has ever captured the fish under other circumstances, or while swimming freely in the sea; but upon this Dr Bleeker remarks that many of his specimens of Fierasfer Brandesii , and all those of Fierasfer (Oxybeles) gracilis and F. lumbricoides , were obtained by him along with other fishes, and were probably taken while swimming freely in the sea.
— from The Romance of Natural History, Second Series by Philip Henry Gosse

"I hold it to be an admitted and undisputed fact, that the land is, at this moment, the only suffering interest; and that it is labouring under an amount of taxation, of various descriptions, far exceeding the amount which falls upon other classes of the community....
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 71, No. 438, April 1852 by Various

They won for us our colonies, our commerce, the mastery of the seas of all the world.
— from Sanitary and Social Lectures and Essays by Charles Kingsley

In these tests the mental {104} work is very one-sided and too simple to permit conclusions with regard to fatigue under ordinary conditions of mental activity.
— from Psychology: an elementary text-book by Hermann Ebbinghaus

As we ’spected to sail in a few days, we were filling up our complement of men, and fresh hands came on board every day.
— from Jacob Faithful by Frederick Marryat

Free use of cracked or pounded ice is also admirable for sore throat of every kind.
— from Breakfast, Luncheon and Tea by Marion Harland

Her eyes roved fondly about the room, resting first upon one cherished object then upon another.
— from A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill by Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice

The intelligence of the female reader must come to our aid, and fill up our cold outlines.
— from The Cloister and the Hearth by Charles Reade