Nay should I enumerate the particular Cruelties, Slaughters, &c. committed by him though my discourse would not in the least be contrariant to the Truth, yet it would not be beleived and only stupifie and amaze the Reader.
— from A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies Or, a faithful NARRATIVE OF THE Horrid and Unexampled Massacres, Butcheries, and all manner of Cruelties, that Hell and Malice could invent, committed by the Popish Spanish Party on the inhabitants of West-India, TOGETHER With the Devastations of several Kingdoms in America by Fire and Sword, for the space of Forty and Two Years, from the time of its first Discovery by them. by Bartolomé de las Casas

On these phænomena we have the following remarks by Seneca: “Lucem in aëre, seu quamdam albedinem, angustam quidem, sed oblongam, de noctu quandoque visam, sereno cœlo, si parallelo situ sit, Trabem vocant; si perpendiculari, Columnam; si, cum cuspide Bolida, sive Jaculum.”
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

Chestnut Stuffing Crumb Dressing Meat Dressing for Poultry Potato Stuffing Raisin Stuffing To Stuff Poultry VEGETABLES Arday-Influs Asparagus Asparagus, Canned Asparagus, Hungarian Artichokes, French or Globe Artichokes, French with Tomato Sauce Artichokes, Jerusalem Baked Beans with Brisket of Beef Beans and Barley Beet Greens Beets, Baked Beets, Boiled Beets, Sour, Buttered Belgian Red Cabbage Boston Roast Brussels Sprouts Cabbage, to Boil Cabbage Boiled with Carrots Cabbage, Creamed New Cabbage, Filled Cabbage, Fried Cabbage, Red Cabbage, Red, with Chestnuts and Prunes Cabbage, Stewed Carrots Carrots Boiled with Cabbage Carrots with Brisket of Beef Carrots, Compote of—Russian Style Carrots, Flemish Carrots, Lemon Carrots and Green Peas Carrots, Simmered Cauliflower Cauliflower—Hungarian Style Cauliflower with Brown Crumbs Cauliflower (Roumanian) Cauliflower, Scalloped Cauliflower, Spanish Celeriac Celeriac, Purée of Celery, Creamed Celery with Chestnuts (Turkish) Chestnuts, Boiled Chestnuts with Celery (Turkish) Chestnuts and Prunes
— from The International Jewish Cook Book 1600 Recipes According to the Jewish Dietary Laws with the Rules for Kashering; the Favorite Recipes of America, Austria, Germany, Russia, France, Poland, Roumania, Etc., Etc. by Florence Kreisler Greenbaum

Egg beaters, waffle irons, toasters, broilers, baking pans, apple parers, cherry stoners, cheese cutters, butter workers, coffee mills, corn poppers, cream freezers, dish washers, egg boilers, flour sifters, flat irons, knife sharpeners, can openers, lemon squeezers, potato mashers, meat boilers, nutmeg graters, sausage grinders, and frying pans in endless array; all patented and clustered [233] around the modern cooking range as a central figure, and all presenting points of excellence in the matter of economy and convenience, or the betterment of result.
— from The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century. by Edward W. (Edward Wright) Byrn