By these changes the heart and primary arteries assume the character in which they usually present themselves at birth, and in all probability the primary veins corresponded in form, number, and distribution with the arterial vessels, and underwent, at the same time, a similar mode of metamorphosis.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

Don’t you think I’m clever?” “Yes, papa, very clever; I also have learned to make pictures.”
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

But let them say as they list, to such as are accustomed unto it, 'tis a most wholesome (so [1385] Polydore Virgil calleth it) and a pleasant drink, it is more subtle and better, for the hop that rarefies it, hath an especial virtue against melancholy, as our herbalists confess, Fuchsius approves, Lib.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Vice is undone, if she forgets her birth, And stoops from angels to the dregs of earth: But ’tis the Fall degrades her to a w***e; Let greatness own her, and she’s mean no more; Her birth, her beauty, crowds and courts confess; Chaste matrons praise her, and grave bishops bless; In golden chains the willing world she draws, And hers the Gospel is, and hers the laws, Mounts the tribunal, lifts her scarlet head, And sees pale Virtue carted in her stead.
— from An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires by Alexander Pope

Thus a portable volume, confining itself to the definition of the words included in the New Testament, could give them fuller treatment than a very large volume which, covering the entire language would be obliged to condense and abridge at every point, omitting perhaps the very matter most desired by a student of the Sacred Word.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

Nam cum sint duo genera decertandi, unum per disceptationem, alterum per vim, cumque illud proprium sit hominis, hoc beluarum, confugiendum est ad posterius, si uti non licet superiore.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Just then the poor vetturino came in and kissed my hand, saying that if I would go bail for the count he would let me have three months wherein to find the money.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

[Pg v] CONTENTS INTRODUCTION Subject of our Study: Religious Sociology and the Theory of Knowledge PAGE
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

Accipe quisquis amas irritamenta palati: Precepta: & leges: oxigarumq; nouum: Condiderat caput: & stygias penitrauerat vndas Celius: in lucem nec rediturus erat: Nunc teritur dextra versatus Apicius omni Vrbem habet: & tectum qui perigrinus erat: Acceptum motte nostro debebis: & ipsi Immortalis erit gratia: laus & honor: Per quem non licuit celebri caruisse nepote: Per quem dehinc fugiet lingua latina situm.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

If the law is too mild, private vengeance comes in.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

ILLUSTRATED BY M. B. PRENDERGAST BOSTON KNIGHT AND MILLET PUBLISHERS H2 anchor [pg vi] [pg vii] CONTENTS IMG chap.
— from My Lady Nicotine: A Study in Smoke by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

1: See Part v. ch. iii.
— from Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 by Tennent, James Emerson, Sir

About All-hallantide, and so till frost comes, when you see men ploughing up heath ground, or sandy ground, or greenswards, then follow the plough, and you shall find a white worm, as big as two maggots, and it hath a red head: you may observe in what ground most are, for there the crows will be very watchful and follow the plough very close: it is all soft, and full of whitish guts; a worm that is, in Norfolk and some other counties, called a grub; and is bred of the spawn or eggs of a beetle, which she leaves in holes that she digs in the ground under cow or horse dung, and there rests all winter, and in March or April comes to be first a red and then a black beetle.
— from The Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton

Leaves: From the root, long-petioled, rounded, palmately veined, cleft into 2 divisions.
— from Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors by Neltje Blanchan

ENTERED, ACCORDING TO ACT OF CONGRESS IN THE YEAR 1857 BY FOWLER AND WELLS IN THE CLERK'S OFFICE OF THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK [Pg v] CONTENTS INTRODUCTION.
— from How to Behave: A Pocket Manual of Republican Etiquette, and Guide to Correct Personal Habits Embracing an Exposition of the Principles of Good Manners; Useful Hints on the Care of the Person, Eating, Drinking, Exercise, Habits, Dress, Self-culture, and Behavior at Home; the Etiquette of Salutations, Introductions, Receptions, Visits, Dinners, Evening Parties, Conversation, Letters, Presents, Weddings, Funerals, the Street, the Church, Places of Amusement, Traveling, Etc., with Illustrative Anecdotes, a Chapter on Love and Courtship, and Rules of Order for Debating Societies by Samuel R. (Samuel Roberts) Wells

By a still more careful inspection, it will also be seen that the port front wing is apparently uninjured, while the starboard front wing has broken the middle main rib at a point between the sixth and seventh cross-ribs, and while it cannot be distinctly seen at first that the front main rib has also broken at the same point very careful inspection will show that this is the case, as the sixth and seventh ribs, showing as faintly darker lines in the photograph, are seen to be displaced, so that they are together and actually crossing each other.
— from Langley Memoir on Mechanical Flight, Parts I and II Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, Volume 27 Number 3, Publication 1948, 1911 by Charles M. (Charles Matthews) Manly

[325] to the element of the stars—so likewise in the blood there exist spirits or some power which acts beyond the powers of the elements, a power very conspicuous in the nourishing and preserving of the several parts of an animal; and in the spirits and blood exist a nature, yea, a soul, analogous to the element of the stars.
— from Harvey's Views on the Use of the Circulation of the Blood by John Green Curtis

[Pg vi] capacity indulged in a great deal of vehement partisan rhetoric.
— from Mr. Punch's History of Modern England, Vol. 1 (of 4).—1841-1857 by Charles L. (Charles Larcom) Graves

The "Switzer's home"—Wonders of New York—"Five hundred journeymen wanted!"—A civil countryman—The future settlement—An adventure on the Quay—"The Switzer's home"—A night's "rest"—The "striped pig"—A natural curiosity maker—The "striped pig" explained—Yankee dodges—Mr. Becher's address—The promised land—The purchase completed—A Methodist ranter—The tailor's adventure—Letters of introduction—Suspicions against Dr. Normann—Dr. Normann's "smartness"—The separation 44-83 [Pg vi] CHAPTER III.
— from The wanderings and fortunes of some German emigrants by Friedrich Gerstäcker