“I, for my part, utterly refuse to absolve him, even when extenuating circumstances plead in his favor, even when he is carrying on a dangerous flirtation, in which a man tries in vain to keep his balance, not to exceed the limits of the game, any more than at lawn tennis; even when the parts are inverted and a man's adversary is some precocious, curious, seductive girl, who shows you immediately that she has nothing to learn and nothing to experience, except the last chapter of love, one of those girls from whom may fate always preserve our sons, and whom a psychological novel writer has christened 'The Semi-Virgins.'
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Then, with promises to redeem it as soon as possible, Christie said good-bye to the little room where she had hoped and suffered, lived and labored so long, and went joyfully back to the humble home she had found with the good laundress.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

by 3 canoes in which there was 20 Indians I shot a large Prairie Cock Several Grouse, Ducks and fish.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

The magistrates approved of her proposal, chose such girls as she thought suitable, and having dressed them in fine clothes and jewellery, handed them over to the Latins, who were encamped at no great distance from the city.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

changeful, PP, C. See Gerful .
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

Per Columbinus. See Geranium .
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

A rude, rough, and singular, but under the circumstances not unnatural, compromise was made, and a mixture of Gipsy, old English, newly-coined words, and cribbings from any foreign, and therefore secret, language, mixed and jumbled together, formed what has ever since been known as the Canting Language, or Pedlar’s French; or, during the past century, St. Giles’s Greek.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

The main bloodvessel, A B C, of the trunk of the body, possesses character, sui generis , just as the vertebral column itself manifests.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

Of the ungulates there are horses and asses, pigs, cattle, sheep, goats, and reindeer.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

‘In all our more populous cities,’ says Giovanni Pontano, [296] ‘we see a crowd of people who have left their homes of their own free-will; but a man takes his virtues with him wherever he goes.’
— from The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt

He soon rose to his feet, and, hearing the sorrowful exclamations of the populace, coolly said, "Good people, do not be hurried; I am not, I can wait."
— from Chronicles of Newgate, Vol. 2 From the eighteenth century to its demolition by Arthur Griffiths

Malaysia Peninsular Malaysia - rubber, palm oil, cocoa, rice; Sabah - subsistence crops, rubber, timber, coconuts, rice; Sarawak - rubber, pepper, timber Maldives coconuts, corn, sweet potatoes; fish Mali cotton, millet, rice, corn, vegetables, peanuts; cattle, sheep, goats Malta potatoes, cauliflower, grapes, wheat, barley, tomatoes, citrus, cut flowers, green peppers; pork, milk, poultry, eggs Marshall Islands coconuts, tomatoes, melons, taro, breadfruit, fruits; pigs, chickens Mauritania dates, millet, sorghum, rice, corn; cattle, sheep Mauritius sugarcane, tea, corn, potatoes, bananas, pulses; cattle, goats; fish Mayotte vanilla, ylang-ylang (perfume essence), coffee, copra, fish, livestock Mexico corn, wheat, soybeans, rice, beans, cotton, coffee, fruit, tomatoes; beef, poultry, dairy products; wood products Micronesia, Federated States of black pepper, tropical fruits and vegetables, coconuts, bananas, cassava (tapioca), sakau (kava), betel nuts, sweet potatoes; pigs, chickens; fish; Kosraen citrus Moldova vegetables, fruits, wine, grain, sugar beets, sunflower seed, tobacco; beef, milk Monaco none Mongolia wheat, barley, vegetables, forage crops; sheep, goats, cattle, camels, horses Montenegro grains, tobacco, potatoes, citrus fruits, olives, grapes; sheepherding; commercial fishing negligible Montserrat cabbages, carrots, cucumbers, tomatoes, onions, peppers; livestock products Morocco barley, wheat, citrus, wine, vegetables, olives; livestock Mozambique cotton, cashew nuts, sugarcane, tea, cassava (tapioca), corn, coconuts, sisal, citrus and tropical fruits, potatoes, sunflowers; beef, poultry Namibia millet, sorghum, peanuts, grapes; livestock; fish Nauru coconuts Nepal pulses, rice, corn, wheat, sugarcane, jute, root crops; milk, water buffalo meat Netherlands grains, potatoes, sugar beets, fruits, vegetables; livestock Netherlands
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Moschus (Joannes), ‘Pratum spirituale’; in Migne, Patrologiæ cursus , Ser. Graeca, vol.
— from The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck

FOOTNOTES [1] Among other examples, Pulgar mentions that of the alcayde of Castro- Nuño, Pedro de Mendana, who, from the strong-holds in his possession, committed such grievous devastations throughout the country, that the cities of Burgos, Avila, Salamanca, Segovia, Valladolid, Medina, and others in that quarter, were fain to pay him a tribute, (black mail,) to protect their territories from his rapacity.
— from The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 1 by William Hickling Prescott

The great matter of "cheap postage," for example, though strongly urged by the mass of citizens, without distinction of party, can scarcely gain a hearing; and the fate of literary property must be the same, until some one arises to emulate the examples of Talfourd and Lord Mahon, and give completeness to their achievements, by carrying a corresponding measure through the American Congress.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. by Various