Then they offered: Chitterlings, gar- Chines and peas.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

And now to conclude, Experience keeps a dear School, but Fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that ; for it is true, we may give Advice, but we cannot give Conduct , as Poor Richard says: However, remember this, They that won't be counseled, can't be helped , as Poor Richard says: and farther, That if you will not hear Reason, she'll surely rap your Knuckles .
— from Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

[the lower white part] GREEN CORIANDER AND PUT ON THE FIRE TO BE COOKED.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

The net available revenue of Garden City, after payment of interest on debentures and providing a sinking fund for the landed estate, has been already estimated at £50,000 per annum (see Chap.
— from Garden Cities of To-Morrow Being the Second Edition of "To-Morrow: a Peaceful Path to Real Reform" by Howard, Ebenezer, Sir

Germinated Cereals and Pulses.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

For by his conquests in the world of mind our thoughts are widened, and he has furnished us with new dialectical instruments which are of greater compass and power.
— from Laws by Plato

If this passion was simply painful, we would shun with the greatest care all persons and places that could excite such a passion; as some, who are so far gone in indolence as not to endure any strong impression, actually do.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

Deceive the enemy as to the point of landing; choose a spot where the vessels may anchor in safety and the troops be landed together; infuse as much activity as possible into the operation, and take possession of some strong point to cover the development of the troops as they land; put on shore at once a part of the artillery, to give confidence and protection to the troops that have landed.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

There is no such sudden break in the conditions of existence as may have been anticipated; and no break at all in the continuous and conscious identity of genuine character and personality.’
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

He was at that time Fiscal of the Council and Chancellor of Castile, and considered by the profession of the law, as well as by the great commercial and political bodies throughout Spain, as an infallible oracle on all matters regarding the internal administration of the kingdom.
— from Letters from Spain by Joseph Blanco White

The President deprived General Changarnier, a pronounced Republican, of the command of the Paris garrison, and dissolved the Assembly, which might have objected to these measures.
— from A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year. Volume 2 (of 3) by Edwin Emerson

These women be very much haunted, and passe away the [147] time maruellous pleasantly by reason of their singing and playing, which they doo with great cunning: and according vnto the report of the Chinos, they apparell themselues with great curiositie, and paint themselues.
— from The History of the Great and Mighty Kingdom of China and the Situation Thereof, Volume 1 (of 2) by Juan González de Mendoza

In the youthful monarch all the vigour and ability of Edward I. revived; and in his reign the fame of England rose far higher than it had ever yet reached, bringing the two words of martial glory, "Creçy" and "Poitiers," into the language, and making them to sound like a trumpet in the ears of Englishmen in every age.
— from Cassell's History of England, Vol. 1 (of 8) From the Roman Invasion to the Wars of the Roses by Anonymous

Every place where elephants had ever been seen or heard of was examined with great care and perseverance, but without success.
— from The Kingdom of the Yellow Robe Being Sketches of the Domestic and Religious Rites and Ceremonies of the Siamese by Ernest Young

The ancient steppe area which generally covers, and probably extends considerably [Pg 66] beyond, the loess district, is the region occupied by most of the primitive settlements.
— from The New Stone Age in Northern Europe by John M. (John Mason) Tyler

The first two or three balls he pitches are full of steam, but then, if nobody has even struck at them, he gets careless, and puts one over that you ought to be able to land on without any trouble.
— from Bert Wilson's Fadeaway Ball by J. W. Duffield

He looked at her compassionately, and then said very gently: "You will also gain calmness and peace, and then you will be happier.
— from The Jews of Barnow: Stories by Karl Emil Franzos