But when thirty days are past, as the time of mourning, for so many are sufficient to prudent persons for lamenting the dearest friends, then let them proceed to the marriage; but in case when he hath satisfied his lust, he be too proud to retain her for his wife, let him not have it in his power to make her a slave, but let her go away whither she pleases, and have that privilege of a free woman.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Per piu` fiate li occhi ci sospinse quella lettura, e scolorocci il viso; ma solo un punto fu quel che ci vinse.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Puis, pour favoriser les échanges, prévoir la possibilité de déposer des témoignages vocaux (voire des images via des webcams) sur le serveur du site.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

And yet, methinks this northern Spring is fair,— These fields made golden with the flower of March, The throstle singing on the feathered larch, The cawing rooks, the wood-doves fluttering by, The little clouds that race across the sky; And fair the violet’s gentle drooping head, The primrose, pale for love uncomforted, The rose that burgeons on the climbing briar, The crocus-bed, (that seems a moon of fire Round-girdled with a purple marriage-ring); And all the flowers of our English Spring, Fond snowdrops, and the bright-starred daffodil.
— from Poems, with The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde

4, Plate 62.--The prostate presents four lobes, a, b, c, d, each being of large size, and projecting far into the interior of the bladder, from around the vesical orifice which they obstruct.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

I was surprised on the way by receiving a pettish push from Leonora's foot.
— from He by Walter Herries Pollock

Catel , sb. capital, property, wealth, CM, MD, S2, C2, C3, W; kateyl , S2; catelle , S2; catele , S2; chatel , MD; chetel , MD.—OF. catel , chatel ; Late Lat. captale , capitale , property, principal; from Lat. capitalis , from caput , the head.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

Then when every minute was precious to me and when you had set me running after you all over the town, you wrote, pretending personal friendship, letters in which, intentionally avoiding all mention of business, you [31] spoke of utterly irrelevant matters; to wit, of the illnesses of your good lady for whom I have, in any case, every respect, and of how your baby had been dosed with rhubarb and was cutting a tooth.
— from Short Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

But none where all distress and dolour dwell'd, Till she despairing Hecuba beheld, Staring on Priam's wounds with her old eyes, Which bleeding under Pyrrhus' proud foot lies.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

The tables are laid with cheese in wooden bowls, beer in wooden piggins, poured from leathern jacks, and bread brought in large baskets.
— from The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

"Have it put in what words you will, so that nothing be inserted which shall give a turbulent people pretence for levying war upon their king.
— from Lord Montagu's Page: An Historical Romance by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

Income of 542 private patients found lunatic by inquisition 280,000 6.
— from Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles by Daniel Hack Tuke

I have compared the specimens of peninsulae available to me from central and southern Korea with specimens of A. f. flavicollis from Denmark, Germany and Sweden and find, although the [Pg 341] two are similar in many ways, that peninsulae differs from flavicollis in several important characters: Mammae 1-2=6 in flavicollis , and 2-2=8 in peninsulae ; incisive foramina reaching level of alveoli of M1, or nearly so, in flavicollis , but ending conspicuously short of that level in peninsulae ; posterior palatine foramina large in flavicollis and opposite a point where M1 and M2 meet, but small in peninsulae and situated farther back on the palate, opposite M2.
— from Comments on the Taxonomic Status of Apodemus peninsulae, with Description of a New Subspecies from North China by J. Knox Jones

In depicting the contest between Varvara Pavlovna’s worldliness and Liza’s spirituality, how comes it that Turgenev’s parti pris for Liza has not impaired the aesthetic balance?
— from Turgenev: A Study by Edward Garnett

Persons brimful of secrets, persons pining for affection, persons perishing for lack of help or counsel, he was sure he could perceive on every side; but by some contrariety of fortune, each passed upon his way without remarking the young gentleman, and went farther (surely to fare worse!)
— from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson

O 7 ‘17 260w P PACKARD, FRANK LUCIUS.
— from The Book Review Digest, Volume 13, 1917 Thirteenth Annual Cumulation Reviews of 1917 Books by Various

In the autumn of 1846, I went with my family to Paris, partly for literary purposes, and partly also to give my children advantages of education, which, in consequence of my absorbing cares for a series of years, they had been denied.
— from Peter Parley's Own Story From the Personal Narrative of the Late Samuel G. Goodrich, ("Peter Parley") by Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) Goodrich

Montoya, in opposition to the modern style, tries to shift the burden of the praise on to the shoulders of the Provincial, Padre Francisco Lopez Truxillo, [93] but with indifferent success.
— from A Vanished Arcadia: Being Some Account of the Jesuits in Paraguay 1607-1767 by R. B. (Robert Bontine) Cunninghame Graham

Great hopes were at one time placed in a product prepared from linseed oil.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 1157, March 5, 1898 by Various