She was soon afterwards delivered of a son, who died immediately, quod obstetrix corrupta mercede, mox natum praesecto plusquam convenerat umbilico necavit.
— 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

" Susan, in her pursuit of Wilson and politics, presently came upon something that disturbed her and exclaimed in a tone of bitter disappointment, "That devilish Kaiser has only a boil after all." "Don't swear, Susan," said Dr. Blythe, pulling a long face.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

In cases where, from long illness or other infirmity, a gentleman friend is confined entirely to his room, you may, with perfect propriety, call upon him.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

[22] TO PRESERVE FRESH FIGS, APPLES, PLUMS, PEARS AND CHERRIES FICUM RECENTEM, MALA, PRUNA, PIRA, CERASIA UT DIU SERVES SELECT THEM ALL VERY CAREFULLY WITH THE STEMS
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

ANT: Repair, place, patch, conserve, unite, perpetuate, continuate.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

SYN: Assiduous, diligent, industrious, laborious, painstaking, persevering, close, unremitting, indefatigable, constant.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Vel malus vel impotens, qui peccatum permittit, &c. unde haec superstitio?
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

[Pg 81] Then up rose Mrs. Cratchit, Cratchit's wife, dressed out but poorly in a twice-turned gown, but brave in ribbons, which are cheap, and make a goodly show for sixpence; and she laid the cloth, assisted by Belinda Cratchit, second of her daughters, also brave in ribbons; while Master Peter Cratchit plunged a fork into the saucepan of potatoes, and getting the corners of his monstrous shirt-collar (Bob's private property, conferred upon his son and heir in honour of the day,) into his mouth, rejoiced to find himself so gallantly attired, and yearned to show his linen in the fashionable Parks.
— from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

V. be difficult &c. adj.; run one hard, go against the grain, try one's patience, put one out; put to one's shifts, put to one's wit's end; go hard with one, try one; pose, perplex &c. (uncertain) 475; bother, nonplus, gravel, bring to a deadlock; be impossible &c. 471; be in the way of &c (hinder) 706.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

He would no doubt have ridiculed the idea of a perpetual peace between nations, had such a project as that of St. Pierre—a practical project, counting upon a realisation in the near future—been brought before him.
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

Fortified by documentary evidence, he proved the existence of a secret printing-press in the Police Department which was issuing "patriotic" proclamations calling upon the populace to exterminate the Jews.
— from History of the Jews in Russia and Poland, Volume 3 [of 3] From the Accession of Nicholas II until the Present Day by Simon Dubnow

You must understand: your husband served in the Army Medical Department, and our establishment is a purely private commercial undertaking, a bank.
— from The Horse-Stealers and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

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— from Messages to the Bahá'í World: 1950–1957 by Effendi Shoghi

Thus it acts on gelatin, as Poutven discovered; this is applied to photography in the processes of photogravure, photo-lithography, pigment printing, &c. Under the action of light this gelatin is oxidised, and the chromic anhydride deoxidised into chromic oxide, which unites with the gelatin and forms a compound insoluble in warm water, whilst where the light has not acted, the gelatin remains soluble, its properties being unaffected by the presence of chromic acid or potassium dichromate.
— from The Principles of Chemistry, Volume II by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev

When in the Ninth Century A.D. it was likely that the pronunciation of the sacred language would be entirely forgotten, a device for its preservation was made whereby the vowel pronunciation was indicated by means of "points" placed chiefly underneath the consonantal text; very much like the dots and dashes used for vowels in Pitman's system of shorthand.
— from The Evolution of Old Testament Religion by W. E. (William Edwin) Orchard

Dr. ——, in propria persona , called upon a Southern student one morning in the recitation-room to define logic.
— from A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall

"Come up, Peter— please come up," called Lady Agnes from the top of the stairs.
— from The Tragic Muse by Henry James

"I am perfectly aware of the temptation of the physiological laboratory, when one is face to face with the facts of the localisation of brain-functions and the influence of purely physical conditions upon mentality, until one is almost led to Buchner's gross misstatement that 'the brain secretes thought as the liver secretes bile'; but here, as ever, it is at the very base of the problem that the unsolved mystery shows itself insoluble.
— from Religion And Health by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

Three years before, he had had the text set up in type so far as it was then completed; and as the work went on, this private printing continued until, soon after he had reached the end, four copies of the book were in his hands.
— from William Hickling Prescott by Harry Thurston Peck