Mr. Edward Atkinson says that for each bale of cotton there are fifteen hundred pounds of stems, and that these are very rich in phosphate of lime and potash; that when ground and mixed with ensilage or cotton-seed meal (which is too rich for use as fodder in large quantities), the stem mixture makes a superior food, rich in all the elements needed for the production of milk, meat, and bone.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

" "Happy Ulysses, son of Laertes," replied the ghost of Agamemnon, "you are indeed blessed in the possession of a wife endowed with such rare excellence of understanding, and so faithful to her wedded lord as Penelope the daughter of Icarius.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

In fact, a parabola is merely an ellipse, with its longer axis produced to an indefinite extent.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

[1] Hence I am obliged in this connection to point out parenthetically, that these conceptions are anything but simple , much less a priori ; that they in fact express a relation, and are derived from the commonest daily experience.
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

I have even been informed that at Paris she discovered a relation of her own, no less a person than her maternal grandmother, who was not by any means a Montmorenci, but a hideous old box-opener at a theatre on the Boulevards.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

'You thought it strange that, feeling much interested in you, I should start at what sounded like a proposal to bring you into contact with the murdered man who lies in his grave.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Then it comes back into the midst of the living and plays the rôle of protecting genius to the young sons, or if such are lacking, to the grandsons whom the dead man left behind him; it enters their body and aids their growth.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

one would think that all the cooks in the world, on some great merry-meeting with the barbers, by joint consent had said—Come, let us all go live at Paris: the French love good eating——they are all gourmands ——we shall rank high; if their god is their belly——their cooks must be gentlemen: and forasmuch as the periwig maketh the man, and the periwig-maker maketh the periwig— ergo, would the barbers say, we shall rank higher still—we shall be above you all—we shall be * Capitouls at least— pardi!
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

[ This mention of the "names of angels," so particularly preserved by the Essens, [if it means more than those "messengers" which were employed to bring, them the peculiar books of their Sect,] looks like a prelude to that "worshipping of angels," blamed by St. Paul, as superstitious and unlawful, in some such sort of people as these Essens were, Colossians 2:8; as is the prayer to or towards the sun for his rising every morning, mentioned before, sect.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

literature, are proud to make any contribution, however insignificant, to the understanding of his works.
— from The Problem of 'Edwin Drood': A Study in the Methods of Dickens by Nicoll, W. Robertson (William Robertson), Sir

The long and prehensile tail, and the facility with which some of them climb, would refer them probably to the genus Leptophis of Duméril and Bibron.
— from The Desert World by Arthur Mangin

He felt within himself that he ought to work at his own bench also, and endeavour to regret as little as possible the gaieties of his Parisian life.
— from The Prose Tales of Alexander Pushkin by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

In the end, on the Continent the chase became for the upper classes less a pleasure than an obsession, and it was carried to a fantastic degree.
— from The Master of Game: The Oldest English Book on Hunting by of Norwich Edward

I can then explain the working of it to you, and return here, retrieve the screw which I have so clumsily lost, and put the Panhard to rights, and possibly mend the other one.’
— from Teresa of Watling Street: A Fantasia on Modern Themes by Arnold Bennett

‘And who is that radiant and golden-haired youth who is seated at his feet?’ ‘‘Tis no less a personage than Hyperion himself,’ replied Saturn, ‘the favourite counsellor of Enceladus.
— from The Infernal Marriage by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

These places contained many defenceless women, the indescribable cruelty of whose fate when they fell into the hands of the brutal heathen soldiery was one of the worst features of the whole ghastly scene; and the wretchedness of the once proud city and its dependencies when they were completely overthrown is finely represented so as to appeal most effectually to our sympathy by a metaphor that pictures them as hapless maidens, touching us like Spenser's [248] piteous picture of the forlorn Una, deserted in the forest and left a prey to its savage denizens.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Song of Solomon and the Lamentations of Jeremiah by Walter F. (Walter Frederic) Adeney

The trees having been burned, they dig up the ground a little, and plant their maize kernel by kernel, [64] like those in Florida.
— from Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 03 by Samuel de Champlain

Let us allow the Colonel to continue: “From the time the charge began up to this moment, not a shot had been fired at us nor had we been able to see, because of the density of the smoke, which hung over the battlefield like a pall, that there was an enemy in front of us.
— from Pickett or Pettigrew? An Historical Essay by W. R. (William R.) Bond

Sometimes he would sit backward, with his face to the horse’s tail and sides, and then, with a whoop and a somerset, come right side up in his place again, and, drawing on a grave face, begin to lecture Andy in high-sounding tones for laughing and playing the fool.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe