And I may tell you this, to boot, that, though I had none other reason, yet do I wish you well, for that I see you enamoured of so fair a creature as is she of whom you speak.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

Note the etymology of the word “garum,” now serving as a generic name for “sauce” which originally stood for a compound of the fish garus .
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

Will not the desire of eating, that is, of simple food and condiments, in so far as they are required for health and strength, be of the necessary class?
— from The Republic by Plato

He in his wrath pronounced a curse,— That lord who made the universe: “If, Rávaṇ, thou a second time Be guilty of so foul a crime, Thy head in shivers shall be rent: Be warned, and dread the punishment.”
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Our misogamist will not appeal to Anacreon or Sappho for a confirmation of his view, but to the universal experience of mankind.
— from Phaedrus by Plato

The substantial pledge has been refined into the invisible rights of a mortgage or hypotheca ; and the agreement of sale, for a certain price, imputes, from that moment, the chances of gain or loss to the account of the purchaser.
— 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

With all, as far as is at present known, the germinal vesicle is the same; so that all organisms start from a common origin.
— 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

The fourth part of Scenes from a Courtesan's Life , Vautrin's Last Avatar , which until the Edition Definitive had been published separately, is here merged into its final place.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

This kind of stone forms a constituent part of many mountains, and is very common in our own, as well as in most other countries.
— from Useful Knowledge: Volume 1. Minerals Or, a familiar account of the various productions of nature by William Bingley

That we should have come out successfully from a contest so unequal seems little short of marvellous; and we cannot but think that it was the hand of an overruling Destiny that enabled us to succeed, by giving us a general as skilful and prudent as Washington, statesmen as wise as Franklin and Jefferson and Adams, an enemy as indolent as Sir William Howe, and allies as powerful as our good friends the French.
— from The Boys of 1812 and Other Naval Heroes by James Russell Soley

For the sake of shelter, food and clothes, they are obliged to defend the childish miracles of the past, and denounce the sublime discoveries of to-day.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll

Women have a perpetual envy of our vices; they are less vicious than we, not from choice, but because we restrict them; they are the slaves of order and fashion; their virtue is of more consequence to us than our own, so far as concerns this world.'
— from Life of Johnson, Volume 4 1780-1784 by James Boswell

And acts which result from ignorance of such facts as can be readily learned are inexcusable.
— from Practical Ethics by William De Witt Hyde

[46] At the feet of the eight slender pillars which support the canopy are all sorts of strange figures and creatures suggestive of the world of pagan mythology, gods of the forest and of the sea, nymphs of the water and the wood.
— from The Story of Nuremberg by Cecil Headlam

The queen and King James of Scotland followed as chief mourners; a thousand men in white bore torches; throughout the day chants, hymns, and sacred offices were sung by the priests, and wherever his body rested for awhile in a church, masses were said.
— from The Story of Westminster Abbey by Violet Brooke-Hunt

Throwing out, therefore, a quantity of sand from a canvas bag, which, he lifted with great difficulty, he became stationary in an instant.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

Bishop Leahy, of Cashel, reviewed some of the preceding speeches as a delegate of the deputation, and was followed by the Bishops of Strasburg, Forli, and Castellamare, Italy.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 11, April, 1870 to September, 1870 by Various