"And at that moment, as luck would have it, we were eating grated radish with kvass and frying fish, and there was a stink enough in the flat to make the devil sick.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

In fact, it may be used any number of times, and we keep adding fresh fat as we get it."
— from Little Folks (September 1884) A Magazine for the Young by Various

If we are not going to grant the kidneys a faculty for attracting this particular quality, 135 as Hippocrates held, we shall discover no other reason.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

Turn them to new men, and they have lost their aim; so as the old rule, to know a fool from a wise man, “Mitte ambos nudos ad ignotos, et videbis,” 262 doth scarce hold 154 for them; and, because these cunning men are like haberdashers 263 of small wares, it is not amiss to set forth their shop.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

3. Fire is needful to him who is come in, and whose knees are frozen; food and raiment a man requires, wheo'er the fell has travelled.
— from The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Snorri Sturluson

The Twelve True Fishermen took up their celebrated fish knives and fish forks, and approached it as gravely as if every inch of the pudding cost as much as the silver fork it was eaten with.
— from The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

The daylight and the wide world have all, more or less, an idea of labour attached to them; and though that labour be of the lightest kind, there is still a feeling in going forth after breakfast that we are about to take our share of the original curse; which feeling inclines man naturally to linger over the tea and coffee, and saunter to the window, or look into the fire, or play with the knife and fork for a few minutes more than is positively required.
— from The Gipsy: A Tale (Vols I & II) by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

The servants who attended had little if any wages; their reward was to be recommended to better service afterwards; and meantime they had no other food allowed to them but what they carried off on the plates: the consequence was, that you durst not quit your knife and fork for a moment, your plate was snatched while you looked another way; if you were not very diligent, you might fare as ill amidst abundance as the [Pg 313] Governor of Barataria.
— from Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume II. by Thomson, A. T., Mrs.

In killing animals for food all painful processes are avoided.
— from Another World: Fragments from the Star City of Montalluyah by Benjamin Lumley

Let him be kept altogether free from anything that would in the smallest degree excite him or set his brain working.'
— from The Lost Heir by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

He dismounts at a little knoll a few feet away, tosses his reins to the trumpeter, and steps to his saddle-bags.
— from The Deserter by Charles King

It now became necessary to kindle a fire, for all my stock of provisions, consisting of corn and potatoes, was raw and undressed.
— from Fifty Years in Chains; or, the Life of an American Slave by Charles Ball

In the Rhenish War (1734), Karl Albert, far from assisting the Kaiser, raised large forces of his own; kept drilling them, in four or three camps, in an alarming manner; and would not even send his Reich's Contingent (small body of 3,000 he is by law bound to send), till he perceived the War was just expiring.
— from History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 13 by Thomas Carlyle

He looked at her keenly, almost fiercely, for a curious suspicion shot into his mind.
— from The Lane That Had No Turning, Volume 4 by Gilbert Parker