The number of subjects who acknowledged the laws of Rome, of citizens, of provincials, and of slaves, cannot now be fixed with such a degree of accuracy, as the importance of the object would deserve.
— 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

INGREDIENTS.—1/2 pint of bread crumbs, 1-1/2 pint of milk, 6 oz. of marrow, 4 eggs, 1/4 lb. of raisins or currants, or 2 oz. of each; sugar and grated nutmeg to taste.
— from The Book of Household Management by Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton

This groove may be ploughed the full length of rail, or cut out for an inch or two with a chisel.
— from Carpentry and Woodwork by Edwin W. Foster

He groaned, with a look of ruth, of care, on his face: nor did it occur to me to suppose it feigned, since I very well knew that the man was no hypocrite; yet I was sure too, in my heart, that here was the man who was the undoer of Miss Langler.
— from The Last Miracle by M. P. (Matthew Phipps) Shiel

If England is too wise to learn of Rome or China, or of France and Germany, or even of the experiments on which I have dwelt so much and so often, it must be a pleasing reflection that it is already so amply informed as to have passed the bounds of all possible improvement and all possible wishes.
— from The Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature and the Arts, July-December, 1827 by Various

i o cáda, tù cáda, lúi cáda, N ó i cadiámo, v ó i cadiáte, l o r o cadán o ; and so of all the rest, as well of the second as of the third Coniugations.
— from Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues by John Florio

"I have," he says, "continually met a file of women carrying loads of rice or coffee on their heads, while the men would follow, lazily lounging along, with a long stick in their hands, like shepherds driving a flock of sheep….
— from Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Henry T. Finck

Thereupon Mopsa whistled softly, and in a minute or two he saw, almost spanning the river, a hundred yards off, a thing like a rainbow, or a slender bridge, or still more, like one ring or coil of an enormous serpent; and presently the creature’s head shot up like a fountain, close to the boat, almost as high as a ship’s mast.
— from Mopsa the Fairy by Jean Ingelow

[Pg 227] that the impression of absolute perfection, free from all limitations of race or country or epoch or individual character—and yet not a vague abstraction but a true living Person—has been printed upon the minds and hearts of the world by these four little pamphlets which we call gospels!
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John by Alexander Maclaren

Loss of relatives, of children, of country, of character, all may be borne with complacency but—loss of money!
— from International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 by Various