The lady expressing a desire of knowing his address, he said, he designed himself Lieutenant Obadiah Lismahago; and in order to assist her memory, he presented her with a slip of paper inscribed with these three words, which she repeated with great emphasis, declaring, it was one of the most noble and sonorous names she had ever heard.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Libris erat adeo deditus Ut iter vitæ secretum iis omnino deditum; Præmiis honoribusque quæ illi non magis ex Patroni nobilissimi gratiâ quam suis meritis abunde præsto erant, usq; præposuerit.
— from A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Jacob Bryant

The mental discipline which would now-a-days be chiefly aided by the study of mathematics, was supplied by literary exegesis and deontological discussions.
— from Bushido, the Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe

ENDIVES AND LETTUCE INTUBA ET LACTUCÆ ENDIVES [are dressed] WITH BRINE, A LITTLE OIL AND CHOPPED ONION, INSTEAD OF THE REAL LETTUCE
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

Then the man said, "Wife, we cannot go on any longer eating and drinking here and earning nothing.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

The gentleman grasped her firmly by the shoulders, and being so fully occupied with holding her back, he was unable to put a hand to his veil which was falling off, as it did at length entirely, and Dorothea, who was holding the lady in her arms, raising her eyes saw that he who likewise held her was her husband, Don Fernando.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Tu pessimus omnium latro es, as Demetrius the Pirate told Alexander in Curtius.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Winding its way among countless islands, and imbedded in mountains, the “holy lake” extended a dozen leagues still further to the south.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

In her presence they felt a little embarrassed and did not know what to talk to her about; but yet they still loved her as before, and were not used to having dinner without her.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

In the discussion of rent, he failed to follow out his ideas to a legitimate end, and did not get at the true doctrine.
— from Principles of Political Economy Abridged with Critical, Bibliographical, and Explanatory Notes, and a Sketch of the History of Political Economy by John Stuart Mill

Mozambique current situation: Mozambique is a source and, to a much lesser extent, a destination country for men, women, and children trafficked for the purposes of forced labor and sexual exploitation; the use of forced and bonded child laborers is a common practice in Mozambique's rural areas; women and girls are trafficked from rural to urban areas of Mozambique, as well as to South Africa, for domestic servitude and commercial sexual exploitation; young men and boys are trafficked to South Africa for farm work and mining tier rating: Tier 2 Watch List - for the second consecutive year, Mozambique is on the Tier 2 Watch List for its failure to provide evidence of increasing efforts to combat human trafficking in 2007; while the government conducted investigations into cases of human trafficking, there were no prosecutions or convictions of traffickers; government efforts to protect victims of trafficking continued to suffer from limited resources and a lack of political commitment (2008)
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

But he tells me he has not any more of the sample, and has no means of ascertaining by whom it was made, as about the time it was purchased of him he had in his shop parcels from London, Edinburgh and Dublin, as well as a small quantity prepared in Belfast, and he is quite unprepared to say from which of them it was taken.
— from New York Journal of Pharmacy, Volume 1 (of 3), 1852 Published by Authority of the College of Pharmacy of the City of New York. by College of Pharmacy of the City of New York

The peculiar qualifications of the local lawyers engaged are discussed with a particularity that would very much surprise, and not always gratify the gentlemen whose merits and demerits are so freely appraised.
— from Tom Pinder, Foundling: A Story of the Holmfirth Flood by D. F. E. Sykes

The Maxillæ (fig. 7 ) are narrowed in at their spinose edge, where there are three large spines and several finer [Pg 573] bristles, together forming a flattened brush: this organ is remarkable from the apodeme ( a ) being bent into the shape of a scythe, with the terminal or blade-portion a little expanded, and directed backwards and inwards.
— from A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 2 of 2) The Balanidæ, (or Sessile Cirripedes); the Verrucidæ, etc., etc. by Charles Darwin

Here are the keys, which I offer into your hand, beau sire," he continued, looking earnestly at De Coucy, and wiping the salt rheum that obscured his sight.
— from Philip Augustus; or, The Brothers in Arms by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

Each of the laws enumerated above, does, in principle , abolish slavery; and all of them together abolish it in fact .
— from The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4 by American Anti-Slavery Society

Migwan carefully estimated the amount she would realize from the sale of the tomatoes and found that it would not be large enough, and decided she could make more out of them by canning them.
— from The Camp Fire Girls at Onoway House; Or, The Magic Garden by Hildegard G. Frey

The skipper, on the other hand, being paid by the month, preferred his comfort, and was fond of making all snug for the night in rough weather, and turning in, whilst we soldiers looked on with patience, if not contentment, for, as was the usual custom, we had received an advance of four months' pay upon leaving England, and didn't much care about landing till some more had become due.
— from An Old Coachman's Chatter, with Some Practical Remarks on Driving by Edward Corbett