[1] EMPTY THE PIG BY THE NECK, CLEAN AND DRY, CRUSH ONE OUNCE PEPPER, HONEY AND WINE,
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

May I not clearly and distinctly conceive that a body, falling from the clouds, and which, in all other respects, resembles snow, has yet the taste of salt or feeling of fire?
— from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

Dear lady, I confess that I have often given cause for offense, for I am only a man, and a young one, too, but I never committed a deadly crime until today!
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

I had nearly committed a dreadful crime.
— from The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

Consignee.— N. consignee, trustee, nominee, committee. agent, delegate; commissary, commissioner; emissary, envoy, commissionaire[Fr]; messenger &c. 534. diplomatist, diplomat(e), corps diplomatique[Fr], embassy; ambassador, embassador[obs3]; representative, resident, consul, legate, nuncio, internuncio[obs3], charge d'affaires[Fr], attache.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

none local short form: Nederlandse Antillen former: Curacao and Dependencies New Caledonia conventional long form: Territory of New Caledonia and Dependencies conventional short form: New Caledonia local long form: Territoire des Nouvelle-Caledonie et
— from The 2003 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

With no chart, a doubtful compass, and so few 263 appliances, was there ever an Atlantic voyage made under more casual circumstances?
— from Q-Ships and Their Story by E. Keble (Edward Keble) Chatterton

They saw that their national costume and dialect conferred an uncomfortable notoriety upon them, and they more than suspected that they were the objects of jeering contempt.
— from Heroines of the Crusades by C. A. (Celestia Angenette) Bloss

Philomena, the old wife of a neighbouring clothier, a devout Christian, hated the cobbler's wife, who used to let her ass stray into Philomena's cabbage-yard.
— from The Death of the Gods (Christ and Antichrist, 1 of 3) by Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky

If one deserves the title of a bad master in morals who has no just ideas of the proper boundaries and limitations of Christian duties, nor clear and distinct conceptions of the different virtues and vices, nor a perception of those general principles to which recurrence should be had in all discussions respecting Christian virtue, and therefore very often talks at random, and blunders in expounding the divine laws; though he may say many excellent things, and excite in us considerable emotion; then I can readily admit that in strict truth this title belongs to many of the Fathers. .
— from Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation by W. H. T. (William Herman Theodore) Dau

Fundamentals of naval construction and damage control.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1977 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office