"I want your worship, senor," said the farmer, "to do me the favour of giving me a letter of recommendation to the girl's father, begging him to be so good as to let this marriage take place, as we are not ill-matched either in the gifts of fortune or of nature; for to tell the truth, senor governor, my son is possessed of a devil, and there is not a day but the evil spirits torment him three or four times; and from having once fallen into the fire, he has his face puckered up like a piece of parchment, and his eyes watery and always running; but he has the disposition of an angel, and if it was not for belabouring and pummelling himself he'd be a saint."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Master ate little; often rice, colored with turmeric or juice of beets or spinach and lightly sprinkled with buffalo ghee or melted butter.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

For this reason you are to inquire where the American coast begins, and go to some European colony; and when European ships are seen you are to ask what the coast is called, note it down, make a landing, obtain reliable information, and then, after having charted the coast, return."
— from Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen

Even our skirmishers were in the habit of rolling logs together, or of making a lunette of rails, with dirt in front, to cover their bodies; and, though it revealed their position, I cannot say that it worked a bad effect; so that, as a rule, it may safely be left to the men themselves:
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Moreover, if we follow for a few miles any line of rocky cliff, which is undergoing degradation, we find that it is only here
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

But when I see, that, for years together, full as impious, and perhaps more dangerous writings to religion, and virtue, and order, have not been punished, nor their authors discountenanced; that the most audacious libels on royal majesty have passed without notice; that the most treasonable invectives against the laws, liberties, and constitution of the country, have not met with the slightest animadversion; I must consider this as a shocking and shameless pretence.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

The Archie database maintains | | a list of roughly 1.5 million files containing 100 Giga- | | bytes (that is, 100,000,000,000 bytes) of information | | available from over 800 anonymous FTP archive sites.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

Enough, he looks about him as if enraptured, for he must assemble looks of rapture.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

I asked him what he thought of me, and he said, ’You’ll be making a lot of runs some day, Mr. Bob.’
— from Mike by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

The camp was merely a litter of refuse and the ashes of various campfires, with one wikiup standing forlorn in the midst.
— from Good Indian by B. M. Bower

"Dr. Grayson makes a lot of rules that are too silly for words.
— from The Camp Fire Girls at Camp Keewaydin; Or, Paddles Down by Hildegard G. Frey

XVIII Here standing in suspense, by chance she spied A churl, that came towards her on the plain, Who, at her best, Astolpho's armour tied, As best he might, and laid on Rabicane; She next behind her bade the peasant guide (One courser loaded and one loose) the twain.
— from Orlando Furioso by Lodovico Ariosto

If one had only the courage, in the so-called higher classes, to break through the gloss which life in a greater circle, which participation in the customs of the world, has called forth, one should soon find in many a lady of rank, in many a nobleman who sits not alone in the theatre, on the first bench, merely that empty common earthenware; and that, as with the merchant’s wife in Lemvig, a déjeuner or a soirée, like some public event, will occupy the mind before and after its occurrence.
— from O. T., A Danish Romance by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

The errors and failings of the best of men are left on record, not to extenuate our sins, but to save us from despair.
— from The Preacher's Complete Homiletic Commentary on the Books of the Bible, Volume 15 (of 32) The Preacher's Complete Homiletic Commentary on the Book of the Prophet Isaiah, Volume I by Alfred Tucker

If the piles are external, they should be bathed with hot milk and Laudanum, or rubbed with any soothing ointment, particularly the Cucumber Ointment , mentioned in my Diseases of Woman, or with Stramonium Ointment .
— from The Matron's Manual of Midwifery, and the Diseases of Women During Pregnancy and in Childbed Being a Familiar and Practical Treatise, More Especially Intended for the Instruction of Females Themselves, but Adapted Also for Popular Use among Students and Practitioners of Medicine by Frederick Hollick

According to the religious law of Korea, which is seldom marked, and less often respected, only the king is fit to worship the gods.
— from Quaint Korea by Louise Jordan Miln

Those noises in the house all supper-time, sounding through the tables and along the walls:—were they only startings in the old rafters, at the impact of the music and laughter; or rather importunities of the secondary selves, the true unseen selves, of the persons, nay! of the very things around, essaying to break through their frivolous, merely transitory surfaces, to remind one of abiding essentials beyond them, [88] which might have their say, their judgment to give, by and by, when the shifting of the meats and drinks at life's table would be over?
— from Marius the Epicurean — Volume 2 by Walter Pater