From this principle, so social and pacific, and which has brought upon me such cruel persecutions, it followed that, if I wished to be a citizen of Geneva, I must become a Protestant, and conform to the mode of worship established in my country.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

As I put this well-timed challenge into my pocket, I walked down the side, got into my boat, and put off.
— from Frank Mildmay; Or, the Naval Officer by Frederick Marryat

This splendid ball, the most magnificent perhaps ever given in Madrid by a private individual, was almost exclusively her work.
— from Froth: A Novel by Armando Palacio Valdés

Thereupon," said the brigand, ending his story, "I left the man in the cloak, got into my boat, and, passing by the barge, I picked up the booty you have seen."
— from Mysteries of Paris — Volume 02 by Eugène Sue

If you want exercise to raise your spirits, brace your nerves, and do you good generally, it must be all pure pleasure without conscious exertion.
— from The Heavenly Twins by Sarah Grand

Whenever an agaric on a long stalk , enlarged at the base , presents a dry cuticle more or less scaly , a darker coloured umbonated top , a moveable ring , and white gills, it must be Agaricus procerus , the parasol agaric, and it may be gathered and eaten without fear.
— from Mushroom Culture: Its Extension and Improvement by W. (William) Robinson

The nature of the disease, in either the prepuce or the glans, is masked by a phimosis....
— from History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance by P. C. (Peter Charles) Remondino

To this purpose, after long consideration, I could think but of two ways to preserve them: one was to find another convenient place to dig a cave under ground, and to drive them into it every night; and the other was to enclose two or three little bits of land, remote from one another, and as much concealed as I could, where I might keep about half a dozen young goats in each place; so that if any disaster happened to the flock in general, I might be able [page 166] to raise them again with little trouble and time: and this, though it would require a great deal of time and labour, I thought was the most rational design.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1808) by Daniel Defoe

There lay the oak on the ground; its mighty branches almost preventing their further ascent.
— from Ekkehard: A Tale of the Tenth Century. Vol. 1 (of 2) by Joseph Victor von Scheffel

I had little doubt that we were followed by some of the persons who had seen us pass through Vertientes; and taking from my purse of twenty dollars, a part of its contents, I slipped them, and two ounces of gold, into my boot, and put in my waistcoat pocket, a purse with only twelve dollars, which I thought sufficient for two peasants of Vertientes, although so paltry a booty might be despised by the band of Don José.
— from Spain in 1830, vol. 2 by Henry D. (Henry David) Inglis