Sancho was surprised to hear himself called by his name and find himself embraced by a foreign pilgrim, and after regarding him steadily without speaking he was still unable to recognise him; but the pilgrim perceiving his perplexity cried, "What!
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Please pale hot, please cover rose, please acre in the red stranger, please butter all the beef-steak with regular feel faces.
— from Tender Buttons Objects—Food—Rooms by Gertrude Stein

Pope, Papa, pontiff, high priest, cardinal; ancient flamen[obs3], flamen[obs3]; confessor, penitentiary; spiritual director. cenobite, conventual, abbot, prior, monk, friar, lay brother, beadsman[obs3], mendicant, pilgrim, palmer; canon regular, canon secular; Franciscan, Friars minor, Minorites; Observant, Capuchin, Dominican, Carmelite; Augustinian[obs3]; Gilbertine; Austin Friars[obs3], Black Friars, White Friars, Gray Friars, Crossed Friars, Crutched Friars; Bonhomme[Fr], Carthusian, Benedictine[obs3], Cistercian, Trappist, Cluniac, Premonstatensian, Maturine; Templar, Hospitaler; Bernardine[obs3], Lorettine, pillarist[obs3], stylite[obs3].
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Avicularia supporting a large pyramidal pointed hollow process, compressed, and perforated before and behind by five or six small circular pores.
— from Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During the Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, Etc. to Which Is Added the Account of Mr. E.B. Kennedy's Expedition for the Exploration of the Cape York Peninsula. By John Macgillivray, F.R.G.S. Naturalist to the Expedition. — Volume 1 by John MacGillivray

To these we have to add a few other references in Plato and Aristotle; a long fragment from the Platonic philosopher Heraclides Ponticus, containing some interesting quotations from earlier poets; a number of detached observations collected in the nineteenth section of the Aristotelian Problems ; and one or two notices preserved in lexicographical works, such as the Onomasticon of Pollux.
— from The Modes of Ancient Greek Music by D. B. (David Binning) Monro

Where the circumstances described, in respect to the Protestant population, have prevented compliance with the popular desire for hymns or anthems to be sung or sermons to be spoken at the burial at the parochial churches in London, interment has been purchased for the express purpose of obtaining them at the trading burial grounds.
— from A supplementary report on the results of a special inquiry into the practice of interment in towns. by Edwin Chadwick

214 png243 To bake Turkey, Chicken, Pea-Chicken, Pheasant-Pouts, Heath Pouts, Caponets, or Partridge for to be eaten cold.
— from The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery by Robert May

A few days after, the dog fell in with a duck, which, as he found in no private pond, he probably concluded to be no private property.
— from A Hundred Anecdotes of Animals by Percy J. Billinghurst

“Common Sense” It was at just such a time, in January, 1776, that Paine published his pamphlet, “Common Sense,” on the suggestion of Benjamin Rush, and with the approval of Franklin and of Samuel Adams.
— from The American Revolution by John Fiske

The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte (condensed by Miss Martineau), his Positive Politics, his Positivist Catechism, and his Subjective Synthesis.
— from How to Form a Library, 2nd ed by Henry B. (Henry Benjamin) Wheatley

Patience, princess," he pleaded, catching the warning glint in her eyes, "dost thou hear nothing?
— from The Pirate Woman by Aylward Edward Dingle