, you must not think you are now in Palestine, predominating over heathen Turks and infidel Saracens; we islanders love not blows, save those of holy Church, who chasteneth whom she loveth.—Tell me, good fellow,” said he to Wamba, and seconded his speech by a small piece of silver coin, “the way to Cedric the Saxon's; you cannot be ignorant of it, and it is your duty to direct the wanderer even when his character is less sanctified than ours.”
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

As, in an inquiry into every other subject, it is necessary to separate the different parts of which it is compounded, till we arrive at their first elements, which are the most minute parts thereof; so by the same proceeding we shall acquire a knowledge of the primary parts of a city and see wherein they differ from each other, and whether the rules of art will give us any assistance in examining into each of these things which are mentioned.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

The Malayan who is to take the part puts on a cap made of strips of cocoanut leaf, and strips of the same leaves tied to a bent bamboo stick round his waist.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

[Converses apart with the KING, and delivers a paper] PRINCESS OF FRANCE.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Nor is it forgotten that the highest joys even there shall be spiritual; the pure Presence of the Highest, this shall infinitely transcend all other joys.
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

that this condescension of yours is an even coarser disparagement of science than any of that open scorn which a presumptuous priest or artist might allow himself to indulge in towards science?
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

These forceps can seize firmly hold of any object; and Alexander Agassiz has seen an Echinus or sea-urchin rapidly passing particles of excrement from forceps to forceps down certain lines of its body, in order that its shell should not be fouled.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

[‘ purpurine ’] purs ‘ purse ,’ OEG 18 b 36 .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

pepper , pipr-o. perceive , sent-i; ( see ), vid-i. percentage , procent-o; ( of profit ), tantiem-o. perfect , perfekt-a. perfidious , perfid-a. perform (act), ag-i; ( fulfil ), plenum-i; ( do ), far-i. perfume , parfum-o; ( odor ), bonodor-o. period , period-o; ( of time ), epok-o; ( punctuation ), punkt-o. perish , pere-i. permit , permes-i. persecute , persekut-i; ( worry ), turment-i, ĝen-i. persevere , persist-i. person , person-o. perspire , ŝvit-i. persuade , konvink-i. pet , dorlot-i. petroleum , petrol-o. phantom , fantom-o. Pharaoh , faraon-o. pharmacy , farmaci-o; ( shop ), apotek-o. philosopher , filozof-o. photograph , fotograf-i. phrase , fraz-o. physician , kuracist-o. physics , fizik-o. pick ( choose ), elekt-i; ( gather ), kolekt-i. pickle , pekl-i. picture , bild-o; ( portrait ), portret-o; — gallery , pinakotek-o. picturesque , pitoresk-a, pentrind-a. pie , kukaĵ-o; ( patty ), pasteĉ-o. piece , pec-o. pig , pork-o. pigeon , kolomb-o. (be a) pilgrim , pilgrim-i. pillage , rab-i. pillar , kolon-o. pin , pingl-o. pinch , pinĉ-i. pine ( tree ), pin-o; — for , sopir-i je.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

Potent port, or fiery sherry; For this milder cup of mine Crush me Yemen's fragrant berry.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

The intricate and suggestive complications of Peninsular politics offer a wide field for speculation; but of this we are not at present disposed further to avail ourselves, our object being to elucidate facts rather than to theorise or indulge in predictions with respect to two countries by whose political eccentricities more competent prophets than ourselves have, upon so many occasions during the last twenty years, been puzzled and led astray.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 70, No. 431, September 1851 by Various

In Falerii, the town of Etruria nearest to the frontier of Umbria and the Sabine country, according to the testimony of Strabo a language was spoken different from the Etruscan, and inscriptions bearing out that statement have recently been brought to light there, the alphabet and language of which, while presenting points of contact with the Etruscan, exhibit a general resemblance to the Latin.(1)
— from The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) by Theodor Mommsen

After finding that Hannibal had escaped him on the Rhone, he had despatched the principal part of his army, under his brother Cneius, to Spain, their original destination, and with the rest sailed to Pisa and landed there.
— from The Young Carthaginian: A Story of The Times of Hannibal by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Put on top of each mold a half breast of chicken, dust with salt and pepper, pour over the cold aspic and stand them aside over night.
— from Ice Creams, Water Ices, Frozen Puddings Together with Refreshments for all Social Affairs by S. T. Rorer

I was at the time the proud possessor of an ancient solid-tyred bicycle.
— from Twenty Years of Spoof and Bluff by Carlton

It was formerly mentioned, that Ennius had translated into Latin verse the Greek poem of Epicharmus, which, from the fragments preserved, appears to have contained many speculations with regard to the productive elements of which the world is composed, as also concerning the preservative powers of nature.
— from History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Vol. I by John Colin Dunlop

It seemed to him likely that this final beckoning might happen the very next day, when there was to be a picnic archery meeting in Cardell Chase, according to the plan projected on the evening of the ball.
— from Daniel Deronda by George Eliot

The invasion of this particular part of the sea-coast was never carried out, but the castle was provisioned for a siege, and it is probable that the actual fortifications were improved and augmented.
— from English Coast Defences From Roman Times to the Early Years of the Nineteenth Century by George Clinch

Piquancy again, achieved now without that poor palliative, punishment of the evil-doer.
— from A Second Book of Operas by Henry Edward Krehbiel