The fruit of Ferona is a substitute for Bael ( Ægle Marmelos ), and is used as such by the English physicians in the hospitals of India.
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera

At intervals, he ran close up to the revolving border of the confusion, and prying into the heart of it with his pike, sought to prick out the object of his resentment.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

"Besides this, an embassy has been dispatched to Peloponnese to procure reinforcements, and Gylippus has gone to the cities in Sicily, partly in the hope of inducing those that are at present neutral to join him in the war, partly of bringing from his allies additional contingents for the land forces and material for the navy.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

A key, a knife, placed in the hand occasioned ideas of a key or a knife, but the hand felt nothing.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

It has been our experience that milk pasteurized in the home or institution did not lead to scurvy to the same extent as that which was commercially pasteurized.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

And as great care should be taken of the health of the inhabitants, the first thing to be attended to is, that the city should have a good situation and a good position; the second is, that they may have good water to drink; and this not be negligently taken care of; for what we chiefly and most frequently use for the support of the body must principally influence the health of it; and this influence is what the air and water naturally have: for which reason in all wise governments the waters ought to be appropriated to different purposes, and if they are not equally good, and if there is not a plenty of necessary water, that which is to drink should be separated from that which is for other uses.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

She became an indispensable personage in the household, officiating in all capacities, from cook and wet nurse to seamstress.
— from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet A. (Harriet Ann) Jacobs

There was only one circumstance that vexed me—namely, that I was nearly certain that neither M. M. nor C. C. would consider such continence to be within the bounds of possibility, if they heard of it, and that Laura herself, to whom her daughter would tell the whole story, would be sceptical, though she might out of kindness pretend to believe it all.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

The islanders, who, from Grado to Chiozza, were intimately connected with each other, penetrated into the heart of Italy, by the secure, though laborious, navigation of the rivers and inland canals.
— 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

And the worst feature is that undue power was placed in the hands of incompetent favourites.
— from Great Ralegh by Hugh De Sélincourt

The pioneers who became martyrs to the cause of the development of an almost unknown land, deserve to have a place in the hearts of its inhabitants.
— from History of the Donner Party: A Tragedy of the Sierra by C. F. (Charles Fayette) McGlashan

There are two main difficulties to overcome in teaching this chapter; first, that the moral is such an abstract one, the whole story as we have interpreted it being conceived as a glimpse into the workings of providence in the history of Israel and the world, and second, that the incidents hinge upon family relations of a sort that a child with his ignorance of the facts of sex cannot easily comprehend.
— from A Manual for Teaching Biblical History by Eugene Kohn

We must now see what the louis produced in the hands of its new possessor.
— from Moral Tales by Madame (Elisabeth Charlotte Pauline) Guizot

And more than that, the very way in which we draw our lines, and mix our pigments, in the hurry of instant record, in the certainty of successful handling, implies that our mind is filled with innumerable memories of continuous trials.”
— from The Relation of Art to Nature by John W. (John Wesley) Beatty

The present laws have left no part of the punishment in the hands of individuals; the crime is punishable only by fine.
— from The Mission to Siam, and Hué, the Capital of Cochin China, in the Years 1821-2 by George Finlayson

His allegiance from first to last was to truth , truth as it presented itself to his own intellect and his own conscience.'
— from Thomas Carlyle by Hector Macpherson

Salar Jung, the younger, ought to play a leading part in the history of Indian emancipation.
— from India under Ripon: A Private Diary by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

As from himself, he observed that the government of this country had been hitherto of so fluctuating a nature, that no dependence could be placed on its proceedings; in consequence of which foreign nations had been cautious of entering into treaties, or engagements of any kind with the United States: but that in the present government there was a head to look up to, and power being placed in the hands of its officers, stability in its measures might be expected.
— from The Life of George Washington: A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Editions by John Marshall