And amongst those of our own Countrey, the unparalleled attestation of that renowned Provost of Eaton, Sir Henry Wootton: I know not thy palat how it relishes such dainties, nor how harmonious thy soul is; perhaps more trivial Airs may please thee better.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

We may have become exceedingly partial to a work which has now been constantly before our eyes for the last two years, yet we can scarcely imagine that any one could take up a volume, whether a novel or a history, which he would peruse with more delight than these memoirs.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

As he can only count the units and numbers which end in nought, Anya covers his numbers for him.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

But it cannot be denied, that the Oriental churches are depressed under their iron yoke; that, in peace and war, they assert a divine and indefeasible claim of universal empire; and that, in their orthodox creed, the unbelieving nations are continually threatened with the loss of religion or liberty.
— 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

One catches the unholiness of Christian means in flagranti by the simple process of putting the ends sought by Christianity beside the ends sought by the Code of Manu—by putting these enormously antithetical ends under a strong light.
— from The Antichrist by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

By the extension, besides, of cultivation, the unimproved wilds become insufficient to supply the demand for butcher's meat.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

[22] , a French coffee merchant, philosopher, and writer, in an accurate and finished treatise on coffee, tells us (see the early edition of the work translated from the Latin) that the first writer to mention the properties of the coffee bean under the name of bunchum was this same Rhazes, "in the ninth century after the birth of our Saviour"; from which (if true) it would appear that coffee has been known for upwards of 1000 years.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Our conversation turned upon living in the country, which Johnson, whose melancholy mind required the dissipation of quick successive variety, had habituated himself to consider as a kind of mental imprisonment.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

“Away from here,” shouted an officer, hastening to the rescue, and adding, of course, the usual oaths.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

Devil’s dust , a term used in the manufacturing districts of Yorkshire to denote shreds of old cloth torn up to re-manufacture; also called SHODDY .
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

The truth is, of course, that up to 1866 most other Germans disliked the Prussians thoroughly and vehemently, and decorated those head Prussians, the Hohenzollerns, with an extremity of antipathy.
— from The Young Emperor, William II of Germany A Study in Character Development on a Throne by Harold Frederic

There is no doubt that the month of October closed to us looking decidedly squally; but, somehow, I was sustained in the belief that in a very few days the tide would turn.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Everybody takes it regularly out there, and quite as a matter of course, the usual dose being thirty-five grains or thereabouts each week.
— from A Camera Actress in the Wilds of Togoland The adventures, observations & experiences of a cinematograph actress in West African forests whilst collecting films depicting native life and when posing as the white woman in Anglo-African cinematograph dramas by Meg Gehrts

300 " " upward movement in, 305–310 of freeholders, 127 Fiscal reasons for protecting peasants, 344–347 Fold-courses, cases as to, 374 , 395 Forests— claim of Crown to under Charles I., 391 enclosures of to be spared, 335 Freedom, growth of personal, see Villeinage Freeholds— interference of Council with, 399 See also Freeholders Freeholders— enclosing by, 32–33 , 157–158 , 236 eviction of in fifteenth century, 37 holdings of, statistics as to, 32–33 independence of, 30 , 35–38 large numbers of in Norfolk and Suffolk, 24–27 little affected by agrarian changes, 28–29 , 134 , 406 loss of rights of common by, 250–253 political interests of, 121–122 rents of, 29–30 rights of common of, how protected, 247–249 social importance of, 34–37 suits of Court due from, 29 statistics as to, 25 upward movement among in sixteenth century, 37–40 See also Yeomen Gentlemen— complaints of by peasants, 193 copyholders among, 55–56 distrust of by rebels, 323–324 part played in rebellions by, 322–323 yeomen made into, 383 Geographical distribution of enclosures, see Enclosures Germany— survival of serfdom in, 43–44 social distinctions in, 187 Reformation in, 339 German peasants— programme of, 339 revolt of, 368 Gilds— apprenticeship insisted on by, 105–106 exclusion of immigrants by, 275–276 loans by, 109 meadows belonging to, 369 Government, the, see Acts of Parliament, Council, Court Grazier, see Pasture Grazing, see Pasture Great Plague— effect of on land tenure, 90–91 , 208–209 , 286 " " population, 138 remembered in reign of Elizabeth, 130 Half-virgate, see Virgates Hallmote tenants, land sublet to, 81 Hedges, see Enclosure Heriots, 43 , 53 , 126–131 Holdings— added to demesne farm, 257–258 addition to, of demesne land, 93–95 " " of waste, 87–89 enclosing of, see Enclosure equality of, in North, 63–66 , 189 exchanging of, 164–165 , 395–396 formation of compact, 162–165 growth in size of, 70 held by same family for many years, 189 inequality of in South and East, 63–66 , 70–72 of customary tenants, statistics as to, 63–66 " " freeholders, 32–33 " " land, basis of economic life of village, 99–104 rents of, on customary land, 115–119 , 141–147 " " on new encroachments, 141–147 services due from, 76–77 subdivision of, 79–80 subletting of, 80–81 use made of by peasants, 105–108 See also Agriculture, Farmers Horse and harness, tenure by, see Border tenure Hospitality, meaning of, 233 Households, equipment of with land, see Holdings Husbandry, see Agriculture Immigration— caused by enclosures, 3–4 , 275 from enclosed to open field villages, 277–279 into towns, 275–277 Imports, see Commerce Import duties, see Corn Indenture, tenants by, see Leaseholders Industry— backwardness of in North, 63–66 , 189–190 growth of in sixteenth century, 185–188 , 192 progress of in East and South, 63–66 , 84–85 See also Commerce, Woollen industry Inequality— of holdings, absence of in North, 63–66 , 189 " " general in South and East, 63–66 " " effect of trade in producing, 84–85 " " transference of land, 78–79 , 86 Inmates, statute of, 4 , 277 , 279 Intensive cultivation, 110–111 , 171 Intimidation of tenants by landlords, 7 , 251–253 , 263 , 302–304 , 325 Judges— decisions of as to fines, 296 , 299 , 307 " " " foldcourses, 395–396 address of Lord Coventry to, 398 See also Court.
— from The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century by R. H. (Richard Henry) Tawney

The jaguar we had killed was not the only inhabitant of the glen of his species, and as the path we had taken was the chief outlet in that direction, a number of animals of all descriptions came rushing out close to us.
— from Manco, the Peruvian Chief Or, An Englishman's Adventures in the Country of the Incas by William Henry Giles Kingston

The exterior object vibrating in a certain way imparts some of its vibrations to our brain; but if the state of the thing itself depends upon its vibrations, it [the thing] must be considered as to all intents and purposes the vibrations themselves—plus, of course, the underlying substance that is vibrating. . . .
— from Unconscious Memory by Samuel Butler

It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

The next day the rector called and had a long talk with the shepherd and his wife about the baby, though he could throw but little light upon it, except, of course, to utterly discredit the ridiculous notion that the fairies had brought it.
— from The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII: No. 356, October 23, 1886. by Various

It is a dirty trick to make bread without washing one’s hands after cleaning fish or chickens; to use an apron for a handkerchief; to use a veteran handkerchief just from the wars for an apron; to use milk-pans alternately for washbowls and milk.
— from Pleasant Talk About Fruits, Flowers and Farming by Henry Ward Beecher