This play was followed by "Lucrezia Borgia," "Marie Tudor," and "Angelo," written in a singular poetic prose.
— from Poems by Victor Hugo

POUR IN A SAUCE PAN, PLACE ON FIRE, WHEN SIMMERING POUR OVER THE FRIED FISH, SPRINKLE WITH PEPPER AND SERVE.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

The bread she puts on in an iron basket, and the butter (and not much of it) in a small pewter plate.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Having deposited it in a safe place, put a magic pill in her mouth to arrest decay.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

Walking, which has for its aim some pleasing pursuit, and, therefore, animates the mind, is efficacious to the majority.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

[1] IN A SAUCE PAN PUT TOGETHER OIL, BROTH, COCTURA [2] FINELY CUT LEEK HEADS AND GREEN CORIANDER, COOKED PORK SHOULDER, SMALL TID-BITS.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

[Put [66] this in a sauce pan] PLACE IT UPON THE FIRE TO SEETH AND EVAPORATE SLOWLY.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

At dinner, at which Sir George insisted that the attorney should sit down with them, Dunborough drank his two bottles of wine, and in his cups fell into a strain peculiarly provoking.
— from The Castle Inn by Stanley John Weyman

Separate rooms for insane and sick persons, particularly for those who have the venereal disease and the itch, are fitted up in these poor-houses, so as to answer, as much as possible, this particular object; and in some cases separate buildings are allotted for this purpose.
— from Statement of the Provision for the Poor, and of the Condition of the Labouring Classes in a Considerable Portion of America and Europe Being the preface to the foreign communications contained in the appendix to the Poor-Law Report by Nassau William Senior

At this time, and for a few years afterwards, I had as partner in a small pastoral property, a Mr. Wm.
— from Reminiscences of Queensland, 1862-1869 by W. H. (William Henry) Corfield

There are few families in the North who have not at least one dear relative or friend among these 60,000 whose sad fortune it was to end their service for the Union by lying down and dying for it in a southern prison pen.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

In Conchoderma and Alepas, the ovarian tubes run up in a single plane ( Pl. IX , fig.
— from A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 1 of 2) The Lepadidae; Or, Pedunculated Cirripedes by Charles Darwin

Put this carefully in the cups, cover the top with oiled paper, stand the cups in a shallow pan partly filled with hot water, and cook in the oven about twenty minutes, until the contents are "set" in the centre.
— from Ice Creams, Water Ices, Frozen Puddings Together with Refreshments for all Social Affairs by S. T. Rorer

Burke, for instance, is a sufficiently poetical politician to interest one just when one’s sonneteering age is departing, but before one has come down quite to arid fact.
— from Letters of Edward FitzGerald, in Two Volumes. Vol. 1 by Edward FitzGerald