I say, therefore, I reflect upon no man for putting the reason of those things upon the immediate hand of God, and the appointment and direction of His providence; nay, on the contrary, there were many wonderful deliverances of persons from infection, and deliverances of persons when infected, which intimate singular and remarkable providence in the particular instances to which they refer; and I esteem my own deliverance to be one next to miraculous, and do record it with thankfulness.
— from A Journal of the Plague Year Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London by Daniel Defoe

—One of the uses to which the India berries ( Cocas de Levante ) are put in the Philippines, is to throw them into small sluggish streams or into lakes with the object of intoxicating the fish which soon come to the surface and float there as if dead.
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera

The ferrying over the infantry was continued with the steamer and the pontoons, taking the pontoons, however, as fast as they were wanted to put in their place in the bridge.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

My purpose, in this place, is to state a fact in the history of the family, which has been passed over by everybody, and which I won’t allow to be disrespectfully smothered up in that way.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

It is impossible in a problem of this kind to give a quarter-turn to any of the pieces if the pattern is to properly match, but (as in the case of F, in Diagram 4) we may give a symmetrical piece a half-turn —that is, turn it upside down.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

What profiteth it the people if they do only the electing while the invisible government does the nominating?
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

Should he stand up in the state and threaten mankind with the severest penalties if they persist in their unbelief, while he makes no attempt to win them by persuasion?
— from Laws by Plato

One good point in their Protestantism is their teaching that morality is of equal importance with faith.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

The principal parts of the Latin verb are the first person singular of the present indicative , the present infinitive , the first person singular of the perfect indicative , and the perfect passive participle.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

"We have only one more anecdote to give of his Life, and that relates to the close; it is told in the anonymous preface which is sometimes prefixed to his poems; it has been printed in the Persian in the Appendix to Hyde's Veterum Persarum Religio, p. 499; and D'Herbelot alludes to it in his Bibliotheque, under Khiam.
— from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam

The seed of peace was deeply planted in these people, in the children and the women, very, very deep.
— from Soldier Boy by Michael Shaara

To own is to have the right of property in; to possess is to have that right in actual exercise; to occupy is to have possession and use, with some degree of permanency, with or without ownership.
— from English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by James Champlin Fernald

A disease very prevalent in this province is the coto , bronchocele, which greatly disfigures some of the pretty females, and for which they possess no antidote.
— from Historical and descriptive narrative of twenty years' residence in South America (Vol 2 of 3) Containing travels in Arauco, Chile, Peru, and Colombia; with an account of the revolution, its rise, progress, and results by Stevenson, William Bennet, active 1803-1825

To produce it, to prepare it, to put it into a portable and serviceable shape, the writer must know what that living world is, what the men in it do and what the women think, why women shed tears and children laugh and young men make love and old men
— from The Novel; what it is by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

Critics have long puzzled over the seemingly contradictory uses of the Hebrew word pôth in two places in the Old Testament; and the connection of “woman” and “door” with the parts thereof, above suggested, may aid in resolving the difficulty.
— from The Threshold Covenant; or, The Beginning of Religious Rites by H. Clay (Henry Clay) Trumbull

And as a last touch, to complete the picture, let [Pg 401] us not forget those people who, then as now, formed the most numerous of all parties: those that belonged to none—people who are too weak-minded, or indifferent, or apprehensive, or disgusted, to lay hold of a truth, from among the midst of contradictory theories that float around them—people who are content with order when it exists, submit passively in times of disorder and confusion; who admire the increase of conveniences and comforts of life unknown to their ancestors, and who, without thinking further, centre their hope in the future and pride in the present, in the reflection: "What wonderful facilities we enjoy now-a-days."
— from The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind by Gobineau, Arthur, comte de

Now the next point in the problem is the criminal himself.
— from Selected Works of Voltairine de Cleyre by Voltairine De Cleyre

It was remarkable that all the proprietors in these parts inscribed their names in the book.
— from Thoughts on the Necessity of Improving the Condition of the Slaves in the British Colonies With a View to Their Ultimate Emancipation; and on the Practicability, the Safety, and the Advantages of the Latter Measure. by Thomas Clarkson

She said to put in those powders in the box and I put them in.
— from The Strange Cases of Dr. Stanchon by Josephine Daskam Bacon

The sole effect of mingling two kinds of pollen is to produce in the same capsule seeds which yield plants, some taking after the one and some after the other parent.)
— from The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 2 by Charles Darwin