for this canoe he gave my uniform laced coat and nearly half a carrot of tobacco.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Cato says, the master of a family ( patremfamilias ) must have in his rustic villa "cellam oleariam, vinariam, dolia multa, uti lubeat caritatem expectare, et rei, et virtuti, et gloriae erit," that is, "an oil and wine cellar, many casks, so that it may be pleasant to expect hard times; it will be for his advantage, and virtue, and glory."
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

[“If such a condition of life should happen to a wise man, that in the greatest plenty of all conveniences he might, at the most undisturbed leisure, consider and contemplate all things worth the knowing, yet if his solitude be such that he must not see a man, let him depart from life.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

It causes a delayed filtration, which means undesirably long contact of water and coffee and also the cooling of the liquid which in a correct, undelayed filtration is smoking hot at completion.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

'Sweet love, that seems not made to fade away, Sweet death, that seems to make us loveless clay, I know not which is sweeter, no, not I. 'I fain would follow love, if that could be; I needs must follow death, who calls for me; Call and I follow, I follow!
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

This do much perplex me, and I did go presently home Betty whispering me behind the ‘tergo de her mari’, that if I would say that we did come home by water, ‘elle’ could make up ‘la cose well satis’, and there in a sweat did walk in the entry ante my door, thinking what I should say a my ‘femme’, and as God would have it, while I was in this case (the worst in reference a my ‘femme’ that ever I was in in my life), a little woman comes stumbling to the entry steps in the dark; whom asking who she was, she enquired for my house.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

“He (pointing to the young gentleman in sky-blue) is the only son of the powerful Marquess of Filletoville.” ‘“Well then, my dear, I’m afraid he’ll never come to the title,” said my uncle, looking coolly at the young gentleman as he stood fixed up against the wall, in the cockchafer fashion that I have described.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Paul says in cases of sloughing of the prepuce we must cut it off, and if there be haemorrhage we must use lunated cauteries (μηνοειδέσι καυτηρίοις).
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

is this your making us laugh? Come away, and take your horse, that we may shoot the creature.”
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

COP WINDING MACHINE (MESSRS URQUHART, LINDSAY & CO., LTD.) 27.
— from The Jute Industry: From Seed to Finished Cloth by Thomas Woodhouse

The blindness which has characterised our foreign policy, which, since Jules Ferry took it in hand, has made us labour continuously with our own hands for the greatness of Germany, as if to justify our humility in her eyes, this will remain the crime of the initiator of an anti-national policy, the crime of M. Jules Ferry.
— from The Schemes of the Kaiser by Juliette Adam

Ten of them took into the 'Blue Anchor' ale-house, near the postern, which house they maintained until Lieutenant-Colonel Cox, with his company, secured [Pg 764] all the avenues to it.
— from Old and New London, Volume I A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places by Walter Thornbury

His methods under like circumstances would have been so very different!
— from My Brother, Theodore Roosevelt by Corinne Roosevelt Robinson

how many under like circumstances have been deceived.
— from True to His Home: A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin by Hezekiah Butterworth

Then there is a younger sister; the most uncontrollable little creature, who chose to pretend my house was insupportable, and ran away into Calabria or Campagna, and set up as a prima donna .
— from Tales and Stories Now First Collected by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

For who was it that reclaimed that savage animal, and taught him the beautifulness of self-sacrifice, and showed him how the most useless life could be made serviceable and noble?
— from Sunrise by William Black