A sea-dish, composed of fresh fish, salt pork, herbs, and sea-biscuits, laid in different layers, and stewed together.
— from 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

Therefore, the history of the human race, the throng of events, the change of times, the multifarious forms of human life in different lands and countries, all this is only the accidental form of the manifestation of the Idea, does not belong to the Idea itself, in which alone lies the adequate objectivity of the will, but only to the phenomenon which appears in the knowledge of the individual, and is just as foreign, unessential, and indifferent to the Idea itself as the figures which they assume are to the clouds, the form of its eddies and foam-flakes to the brook, or its trees and flowers to the ice.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

Nevertheless, this monarch, who so severely proscribed luxury in daily life, made the most magnificent display on the occasions of political or religious festivals, when the imperial dignity with which he was invested required to be set forth by pompous ceremonial and richness of attire.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

My dear uncle Morrie,—I am happy to write you a letter, I do love you, and I will hug and kiss you when I see you.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

Think of the tragedies caused by lies packed in car-wheels, locomotives, steamboat boilers, and engines; lies in defective rails, ties, or switches; lies in dishonest labor put into manufactured material by workmen who said it was good enough for the meager wages they got!
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

También mucho depende de los cambios que la iniciativa de los plantadores introduce en el veredicto comercial; y no sería extraño que el Perú—donde recientemente se han hecho inmensas plantaciones sobre una base científica—viera los mercados del mundo disputándose [7] su cacao.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

So numerous were these craft that they named the group las Islas de las Velas (the Islands of Sails); but the loss of a ship’s boat and other annoying thefts led the sailors to designate the islands Los Ladrones (the Thieves), a name which they still retain.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

But suddenly it lifted its delicate little head, gave a cry of joy, and flew off like an arrow in a straight line, without deviating or looking to the left or right.
— from A Diplomat's Memoir of 1870 being the account of a balloon escape from the siege of Paris and a political mission to London and Vienna by Frederic Reitlinger

The snow fell incessantly, and lay in drifts like cliffs, fully seven feet high, across the roads.
— from From Squire to Squatter: A Tale of the Old Land and the New by Gordon Stables

And with the centuries "christened in blood and schooled in sacrifice," the spirit grew more convincingly apparent: Domingo de Guzmán, Francisco Ximenez, Gonsalvo de Córdova, Luis de León, Iñigo de Loyola are very brothers with a like high fealty that tells what majestic mother nurtured them on her battlefield of ages.
— from Heroic Spain by Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly

PÉREZ MORIS, D. JOSÉ, Y CUETO, D. LUIS.—Historia de la insurrección de Lares.
— from The History of Puerto Rico From the Spanish Discovery to the American Occupation by R. A. (Rudolph Adams) Van Middeldyk

It (the valley) extends from Rattlesnake Mountain as low as Frazier’s Creek, and is about fifty miles in length in direct line; while its width varies from ten to fifteen miles, being watered in its whole course by Jefferson River and six different creeks.
— from First Across the Continent The Story of the Exploring Expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1804-5-6 by Noah Brooks

La liberté de la presse présente, à mon avis, dans une mesure beaucoup plus considérable, tous les inconvénients de la liberté du théâtre.
— from My Memoirs, Vol. VI, 1832 to 1833 by Alexandre Dumas

A few feet away, a strapping great lad in livery stood musing, motionless, statuesque, useless, like that purely decorative warrior whom one sees in the most tumultuous of Mantegna's paintings, lost in dreams, leaning upon his shield, while all around him are fighting and bloodshed and death; detached from the group of his companions who were thronging about Swann, he seemed as determined to remain unconcerned in the scene, which he followed vaguely with his cruel, greenish eyes, as if it had been the Massacre of the Innocents or the Martyrdom of Saint James.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust