Neglect on their part is to be punished in the first class by a fine of a hundred drachmas, and proportionally in the others.
— from Laws by Plato

There are numerous passages in the Bible which infer that John and Jesus in their last incarnations were, respectively, Elijah and his disciple Elisha.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

Your deeds got into extemporised strong-rooms made of kitchens and sculleries, and fretted all the fat out of their parchments into the banking-house air.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Note 28 ( return ) [ The third book of Procopius is terminated by the death of Germanus, (Add. l. iv.
— 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

The bayonets plunged into the bellies of these centaurs; hence a hideousness of wounds which has probably never been seen anywhere else.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

When the last echo of his sultan’s step has died away, and Starbuck, the first Emir, has every reason to suppose that he is seated, then Starbuck rouses from his quietude, takes a few turns along the planks, and, after a grave peep into the binnacle, says, with some touch of pleasantness, “Dinner, Mr. Stubb,” and descends the scuttle.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

But the conclusion that life is always on the whole painful would not prove it to be unreasonable for a man to aim ultimately at minimising pain, if this is still admitted to be possible; though it would, no doubt, render immediate suicide, by some painless process, the only reasonable course for a perfect egoist—unless he looked forward to another life.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

[276] of a Crab, and a Perch, if there be any stone in an Ox Gall, stone in the bladder of a Man, the Jaw of a Pike or Jack, Pearls, the marrow of the Leg of a Sheep, Ox, Goat, Stag, Calf, common and virgin Honey, Musk, Mummy, a Swallow’s nest, Crabs Eyes, the Omentum or call of a Lamb, Ram, Wether, Calf, the whites, yolks, and shells of Hen’s Eggs, Emmet’s Eggs, bone of a Stag’s heart, an Ox leg, Ossepiœ, the inner skin of a Hen’s Gizzard, the wool of Hares, the feathers of Partridges, that which Bees make at the entrance of the hive, the pizzle of a Stag, of a Bull, Fox Lungs, fasting spittle, the blood of a Pigeon, of a Cat, of a he Goat, of a Hare, of a Partridge, of a Sow, of a Bull, of a Badger, of a Snail, Silk, Whey, the suet of a Bullock, of a Stag, of a he Goat, of a Sheep, of a Heifer, Spermaceti, a Bullock’s spleen, the skin a Snake hath cast off, the excrements of a Goose, of a Dog, of a Goat, of Pigeons, of a stone Horse, of a Hen, of Swallows, of a Hog, of a Heifer, the ancle of a Hare, of a Sow, Cobwebs, Water thells, as Blatta Bazantia, Buccinæ, Crabs, Cockles, Dentalis, Entalis, Mother of Pearl, Mytuli Purpuræ, Os sepiæ, Umbilious Marinus, the testicles of a Horse, a Cock, the hoof of an Elk, of an Ass, a Bullock, of a Horse, of a Lyon, the urine of a Boar, of a she Goat.
— 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

They wonderfully ease fevers coming of flegm, as quotidian fevers, agues, epiatos, &c. pains in the belly.
— 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

“I think,” he said, closing his eyes, and rubbing his fingers along his eyebrows, “that the party holding to the only constitutional policy is to be supported at all hazards, and I think the great party to which we belong is that party.
— from Trumps by George William Curtis

Moreover, it was not performed in the best possible manner.
— from The Harmonicon. Part the First by Various

But as a scribe how shall we sufficiently praise that great man when we take into consideration the fine Bible which he executed for Charlemagne, and which is now fortunately preserved in the British Museum.
— from Bibliomania in the Middle Ages by F. Somner (Frederick Somner) Merryweather

prepositores in the body of the chirche, ij.
— from Floreat Etona: Anecdotes and Memories of Eton College by Ralph Nevill

Afterward they are to be pounded in a great Brass-Mortar, and the Powder is to be sifted thro' a Silk-Sieve.
— from The Compleat Surgeon or, the whole Art of Surgery explain'd in a most familiar Method. by M. (Charles Gabriel) Le Clerc

Had he been allowed his own bent the remainder of the Rice family might have been put on short allowance, for, with a view to pleasing the corporal, he urged that this article of food, and then that, should be put into the bag which served him as a haversack, until the larder must have been completely emptied but for his mother’s emphatic refusal to follow such suggestions.
— from Corporal 'Lige's Recruit: A Story of Crown Point and Ticonderoga by James Otis

The Countess sent the gold to a goldsmith in the town, who having tested it pronounced it to be the purest gold.
— from The Magic and Science of Jewels and Stones by Isidore Kozminsky

Day by day the plant is trained, bent a little here and a little there, and in course of time it assumes the desired form and is ready for the market.
— from Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey to Japan and China by Thomas Wallace Knox

An inscription over the gateway proclaimed it to be the inn where Chaucer’s pilgrims slept on the night previous to their departure; and at the bottom of the yard was a magnificent sign representing them in the act of sallying forth.
— from Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists by Washington Irving

FONCER.—To put in the bottom of a saucepan slices of ham, veal, or thin broad slices of bacon.
— from The Book of Household Management by Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton