There lie buried, John de Bath, weaver, 1390; Philip at Vine, capper, 1396; Benet Gerard, brewer, 1403; Thomas Bilsington founded a chantry there, and gave to that church a house, called the Helmet upon Cornhill; John Bradmore, chirurgeon, Margaret and Katheren his wives, 1411; John Michaell, sergeant-at-arms, 1415; Allen Bret, carpenter, 1425; Robert Malton, 1426; John Trigilion, brewer, 1417; John Mason, brewer, 1431; Rob. Cawood, clerk of the pipe in the king’s exchequer, 1466;
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

Of these there be two chief, Vena porta and Vena cava , from which the rest are corrivated.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

From the irritation of the older men, the curiosity of the uninitiated, the reserve of the initiated, the hurry and preoccupation of everyone, and the innumerable committees and commissions of whose existence he learned every day, he felt that now, in 1809, here in Petersburg a vast civil conflict was in preparation, the commander in chief of which was a mysterious person he did not know, but who was supposed to be a man of genius—Speránski.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

And furthermore, in 1785, Sokoloff published a very careful and extensive account of these labors, together with an extract from Chelyuskin's diary relating to the charting of the Taimyr peninsula, which later was published in German by Dr. Petermann.
— from Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen

Ham-sa (pronounced hong-sau ) are two sacred Sanskrit chant words possessing a vibratory connection with the incoming and outgoing breath.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

There are policemen and village constables stuck behind bushes all along the road. .
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

It has already been observed that whenever divergent opinions are entertained by a minority so large, that we cannot fairly regard the dogma of the majority as the plain utterance of Common Sense, an appeal is necessarily made to some higher principle, and very commonly to Utilitarianism.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

In its relation to the theatre, the love which the Bavarians feel for reconstruction and imitation produces the best of results: the plays are very carefully mounted, and the scenic effects very fine and exact.
— from Wagner at Home by Judith Gautier

Thus the dire necessity which had urged her upon this career, began by destroying her sense of female delicacy and shame: it now destroyed, in her estimation, every inducement to pursue a virtuous career.
— from The Mysteries of London, v. 1/4 by George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds

Sir P. A very common medicine.
— from A Fool's Paradise: An Original Play in Three Acts by Sydney Grundy

A collection of several Poems and Verses composed upon various occasions.
— from The Gentle Shepherd: A Pastoral Comedy by Allan Ramsay

Mexico is bounded on the north by the intendancy of San Luis Potosi, on the east by the province of Tlascala, or Puebla, and Vera Cruz, on the west by Mechoacan, or Valladolid, and Guanaxuato, and on the south by the Pacific Ocean.
— from Spanish America, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Bonnycastle, Richard Henry, Sir

A very pleasant and valuable cousin he is, to be sure!
— from In the Valley by Harold Frederic

When he passes a votive cairn he adds a stone to the pile as an offering; when he rides by a mani , he never forgets to guide his steed to the left of it; when he sees a holy mountain, he never omits to lay his forehead on the ground in homage; in all important undertakings he must, for the sake of his eternal salvation, seek the advice of monks learned in the law; when a mendicant lama comes to his door he never refuses to give him a handful of tsamba or a lump of butter; when he makes the round of the temple halls, he adds his contribution to the collection in the votive bowls; and when he saddles his horse or loads a yak, he again hums the everlasting “Om mani padme hum.”
— from Trans-Himalaya: Discoveries and Adventurers in Tibet. Vol. 2 (of 2) by Sven Anders Hedin

In reference to this he has published a very curious essay, entitled ‘Of the Pleasure of Eating, and of the Means that may be Employed for Increasing it.’
— from The Chemistry of Cookery by W. Mattieu (William Mattieu) Williams