The records of this period are too scanty to admit of our passing over in silence even a barren catalogue of names, which, as texts, with the aid of collateral information, may prove of some benefit to the future antiquarian and historian.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

If for some reason or other I should ever have to leave this place and go home, not only would Mr. Sharov, if I came back, take me on again without a word, but he would be glad to, too.”
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

It is but due to the sex, however, to state that their impropriety was professional, and it was only in such easily established standards of evil that Poker Flat ventured to sit in judgment.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

The world does not so exist, no parts palpable or impalpable so exist, No consummation exists without being from some long previous consummation, and that from some other, Without the farthest conceivable one coming a bit nearer the beginning than any.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

Now we exist either in ourselves, or in something else which necessarily exists (see Axiom.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

As for sweating, urine, bloodletting by haemrods, or otherwise, I shall elsewhere more opportunely speak of them.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

[210] BOILED OSTRICH IN STRUTHIONE ELIXO
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

But they went on in silence except when their business demanded speech.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

it was hidden; there was made A clean path, and the girl moved on like one In some enchanted ring.
— from Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. by Jean Ingelow

Off the Bay of Yakutat,—a name given it by the resident T'linkit tribes,—we have our best view of imperial St. Elias, the crowning peak of this noble range, and the highest mountain in all North America,—nearly 20,000 feet above the sea-level, and all of this vast height seemingly springing from the very sea itself.
— from Wonderland; or, Alaska and the Inside Passage With a Description of the Country Traversed by the Northern Pacific Railroad by John Hyde

It does not appear to have been noted in Ireland, or in Scotland, except that it has been recorded from the Isle of Arran.
— from The Moths of the British Isles, Second Series Comprising the Families Noctuidæ to Hepialidæ by Richard South

No company or incorporation shall evade this Act by adding to the regular charge, directly or indirectly, anything intended for or to be used or to be given away as a gratuity or tip to the employee.
— from The Itching Palm: A Study of the Habit of Tipping in America by William R. (William Rufus) Scott

Traditionally, the old institutions still exist and are cherished by those who believe that they will be rehabilitated and re-established.
— from The Next Step: A Plan for Economic World Federation by Scott Nearing

And therefore, to obtain the products of iodine substitution, either iodic acid, HIO 3 (Kekulé), or mercury oxide, HgO (Weselsky), is added, as they immediately react on the hydrogen iodide, thus: HIO 3 + 5HI = 3H 2 O + 3I 2 , or, HgO +
— from The Principles of Chemistry, Volume I by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev

If a ray, polarized by refraction or by reflection from any substance not metallic, be viewed through a piece of Iceland spar, each image will alternately vanish and reappear at every quarter revolution of the spar, whether it revolves from right to left or from left to right; which shows that the properties of the polarized ray are symmetrical on each side of the plane of polarization.
— from On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences by Mary Somerville