And the goodness of God was admirable to us in our low estate, in that He raised up passionate friends on every side to us, when we had nothing to recompense any for their love.
— from Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson by Mary White Rowlandson

Dr. Luderitz, experimenting in the Hygienic Institute of Berlin, reported that no bacteria could resist the action of coffee in infusion.
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera

"I have gained," said Sancho, "the knowledge that I am no good for governing, unless it is a drove of cattle, and that the riches that are to be got by these governments are got at the cost of one's rest and sleep, ay and even one's food; for in islands the governors must eat little, especially if they have doctors to look after their health."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The body is supposed to be facing the reader, so that the left lung, etc., is to his right.
— from How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Archibald Williams

This all-powerful opinion penetrates at length even into the hearts of those whose interest might arm them to resist it; it affects their judgment whilst it subdues their will.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

I ran hard, crouching low except in the hollows, and as I ran I kept scanning the brow of the hill before me.
— from The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan

Those persons who, from their age, or sex, or occupations, were the least qualified to judge, who were the least exercised in the habits of abstract reasoning, aspired to contemplate the economy of the Divine Nature: and it is the boast of Tertullian, that a Christian mechanic could readily answer such questions as had perplexed the wisest of the Grecian sages.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

The task of the herdsman, like that of the farm-labourer, seems to have devolved on the bondsmen, while the quern and the shuttle were left exclusively in the hands of the bondswomen.
— from A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Volume 1 by Thomas D'Arcy McGee

M. MAGLOIRE.—The question is too serious to be left entirely in the hands of a single witness.
— from Within an Inch of His Life by Emile Gaboriau

With the casual indiscretion of the selfish man, Nigel, of course, told his wife at length, early in the honeymoon, all about his romance with Bertha.
— from Bird of Paradise by Ada Leverson

The discharge of the lightning engines in the hands of the Martians in that confined space made an uproar so tremendous that it seemed to pass the bounds of human sense.
— from Edison's Conquest of Mars by Garrett Putman Serviss

"The poor inhabitants below" had been gathering together there a long while, and their memories now floating down the stream of time, far away from the sympathies of the living, except in that honourable reverence for the dead, which had here enclosed their dust from unfeeling intrusion.
— from Lancashire Sketches Third Edition by Edwin Waugh

This Rienzi with great thoughts in his head, great feelings in his heart, amid an entourage of coarseness and vulgarity, set all my nerves a-quivering with sympathy and love; yet my plan for an art-work based thereon sprang first from the perception of a purely lyric element in the hero's atmosphere.
— from Richard Wagner His Life and His Dramas A Biographical Study of the Man and an Explanation of His Work by W. J. (William James) Henderson

As Peter was yet so young, he left everything in the hands of his counsellors, and for several years took merely a formal part in the administration.
— from The Boys' Book of Famous Rulers by Lydia Hoyt Farmer

I say nothing against the journey if it bring thee good money, or if it bring the Kingdom, but if it bring naught but miracles there'll be little enough in the house to eat by the time ye come back.
— from The Brook Kerith: A Syrian story by George Moore

It would be an unpardonable omission were I to overlook the descendants of John Faw, “Lord and Earl of Little Egypt,” in this history of the Gipsies in Scotland.
— from A History of the Gipsies: with Specimens of the Gipsy Language by Walter Simson