Al quale e adviso che le mani et li denti habbiano perso il loro ordine naturale et del tutto annichilati.’
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

the cases that end in a death terrible to the family, though probably involving little or no suffering to the victim himself, are by no means the worst.
— from Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics by Joel Dorman Steele

If the blood pressure is low, or not higher than is best for the patient, such treatment would be inadvisable.
— from Disturbances of the Heart Discussion of the Treatment of the Heart in Its Various Disorders, With a Chapter on Blood Pressure by Oliver T. (Oliver Thomas) Osborne

There is perhaps no passage in any poet which reveals more truthfully that union of feelings in meditating on the [396] strangeness and sadness of our mortal destiny than the well-known passage describing the birth of every infant into the world— Tum porro puer, ut saevis proiectus ab undis Navita, nudus humi iacet, infans, indigus omni Vitali auxilio, cum primum in luminis oras Nixibus ex alvo matris natura profudit, Vagituque locum lugubri complet, ut aecumst Cui tantum in vita restet transire malorum.
— from The Roman Poets of the Republic, 2nd edition by W. Y. (William Young) Sellar

tum porro puer, ut sævis proiectus ab undis navita, nudus humi iacet, infans, indigus omni vitali auxilio, cum primum in luminis oras nixibus ex alvo matris natura profudit, vagituque locum lugubri complet, ut æcumst cui tantum in vita restet transire malorum.
— from Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III by John Addington Symonds

Whether it would have lasted, or grown out of passion into love, one need not speculate, any more than the poet does.
— from A Life for a Life, Volume 2 (of 3) by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

As in the previous instance, little or no resistance was offered.
— from Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 2 by Sarah Tytler

Accordingly from July to November, not a week passes but some victim writes to complain that he is in confinement at Marseilles or Como, or somewhere or another, because his passport is lost or not en règle .
— from Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various

Not the state as such, and (as we have seen) not the individual, is the unit of evolution; the state may develop when the external pressure is little or nothing; the social tissue is that primary unit upon which the process of social evolution impinges.
— from A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by Cora May Williams

By Paul Henri Thiery (Baron D'Holbach) Translated From The Original, by Samuel Wilkinson PART I. LAWS OF NATURE—OF MAN—THE FACULTIES OF THE SOUL—DOCTRINE OF IMMORTALITY—ON HAPPINESS.
— from The System of Nature, or, the Laws of the Moral and Physical World. Volume 1 by Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'

As a general rule the ash pit is level, or nearly so, with the floor on which the fireman stands, and as for convenient firing, the grate should not be higher than 28 to 30 inches, the depth of ash pit is thereby determined.
— from Maxims and Instructions for the Boiler Room Useful to Engineers, Firemen & Mechanics; Relating to Steam Generators, Pumps, Appliances, Steam Heating, Practical Plumbing, etc. by N. (Nehemiah) Hawkins