He advised great statesmen to examine into the diet of all suspected persons; their times of eating; upon which side they lay in bed; with which hand they wipe their posteriors; take a strict view of their excrements, and, from the colour, the odour, the taste, the consistence, the crudeness or maturity of digestion, form a judgment of their thoughts and designs; because men are never so serious, thoughtful, and intent, as when they are at stool, which he found by frequent experiment; for, in such conjunctures, when he used, merely as a trial, to consider which was the best way of murdering the king, his ordure would have a tincture of green; but quite different, when he thought only of raising an insurrection, or burning the metropolis.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

,” replied the bondsman, “sleeps in the cell on your right, as the Jew on that to your left; you serve to keep the child of circumcision separate from the abomination of his tribe.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

He emptied out his pockets, and laid handfuls of the largest jewels on the table.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

Therefore, the most innocent and the most daring trembled at the very name of the Free Judges of the Terre-Rouge, an institution which adopted Westphalia as the special, or rather as the central, region of its authority; the Council of Ten exercised their power in Venice and the states of the republic; and the Assassins of Syria, in the time of St. Louis, made more than one invasion into Christian Europe.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

Joe offered the tray to Mr. Pontellier, and removed the soup.
— from The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin

THE first fortnight that I passed here was so quiet, so serene, that it gave me reason to expect a settled calm during my stay; but if I may now judge of the time to come, by the present state of my mind, the calm will be succeeded by a storm, of which I dread the violence!
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

All at once she made a spring, jumped on to the bundle and seated herself on the top of it; and however withered she might be, she was yet heavier than the stoutest country lass.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

And Archelaus, as soon as he had made the reconciliation, went then away to Cappadocia, having proved at this juncture of time the most acceptable person to Herod in the world; on which account he gave him the richest presents, as tokens of his respects to him; and being on other occasions magnanimous, he esteemed him one of his dearest friends.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

The defaced monuments in this church were these; First in the choir, of the Lady Margaret, daughter to Philip, king of France, and wife to Edward I., foundress of this new church, 1317; of Isabel, queen, wife to Edward II., daughter to Philip, king of France, 1358; John of the Tower; Queen of Scots, wife to David Bruce, daughter to Edward II., died in Hartford castle, and was buried by Isabel her mother 1362; William Fitzwarren, baron, and Isabel his wife, sometime Queen of Man; Isabel, daughter to Edward III., wedded to the Lord Courcy of France, after created Earl of Bedford; Elianor, wife to John, Duke of Britaine: Beatrix, Duchess of Britaine, daughter to Henry III.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

They had not proceeded far before a third Spanish frigate came up and engaged the Minerve , necessitating the casting-off of the Santa Sabina , thereby leaving the two young, but able, junior officers to their own resources.
— from The Boys' Nelson by Harold Wheeler

A Lushai gave me the following account of the journey of Thangchhuah to Pial-ral.
— from The Lushei Kuki Clans by John Shakespear

Low in the sky, and just opposite the tall arched window behind the pulpit, the sun burned like a baleful Cyclopean eye, striking through a mass of ruby tinted glass that had been designed to represent a lion, and other symbols of the Redeemer, who soared away above them.
— from Infelice by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans

For the th , the tip is used along with the edges of the tongue; but no perfect adjustment is required, either to the edges of the teeth, or to the junction of the teeth with the palate, where the sound may equally well be made.
— from The Principles of Biology, Volume 1 (of 2) by Herbert Spencer

To borrow again from Sir James Outram, "the torrent issuing from an icy cavern rushes tempestuously down a deep, winding chasm till it gains the verge of the unbroken cliff, leaps forth in sudden wildness for a hundred and fifty feet, and then in a stupendous column of pure white sparkling water, broken by giant jets descending rocket-like and wreathed in volumed spray, dashes upon
— from Among the Canadian Alps by Lawrence J. (Lawrence Johnstone) Burpee

"When I preaches, I has jest one text to preach from, an' I always preaches from this one.
— from The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy by Charles Carleton Coffin

For, in truth, every mediæval city was an Ile Sonnante , and the greater, the richer, the more populous, the more powerful was the city, the louder and the more frequent were the jinglings and the janglings, the sonorous clang and the melodious peal, the chimings {106} and the strikings, the music and the jarring of the thousand Bells.
— from London by Walter Besant

The only way to judge of the treasures which the old masters of whatever age have left us, is to look at the work and ask oneself ‘What was that like when it was new?’
— from Dante Rossetti and the Pre-Raphaelite movement by Esther (of Hampstead) Wood

The Judgment of the Tribune.
— from Rienzi, the Last of the Roman Tribunes by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

There is genuine “Vino de Jerez” on the table, undoctored for the market, clear as amber, ambrosial as nectar, delicious in bouquet and flavor.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 15, Nos. 85-90, April 1872-September 1872 A Monthly Magazine by Various