Their women wear a bronze ring 150 upon each leg, and they have long hair on their heads, and when they catch their lice, each one bites her own in retaliation and then throws them away.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

In some year or other and on the seventh day of the twelfth moon, an old rat ascended the throne to discuss matters.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

I like this powder very well, the quantity (or to write more scholastically, the dose) must be regulated according to the age of the patient, even from ten grains to a dram, and the manner of taking it by their palate.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

Rightly answered the Thessalian, who was asked who the mildest Thessalians were, "Those who have done with fighting."
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

It was covered from top to bottom with carved roses and tulips; the most curious scrolls were drawn upon it, and out of them peeped little stags' heads, with antlers.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

In the year 1316, Edward II. did solemnize his feast of Penticost at Westminster, in the great hall; where sitting royally at the table, with his peers about him, there entered a woman adorned like a minstrel, sitting on a great horse, trapped as minstrels then used, who rode round about the tables, showing pastime, and at length came up to the king’s table, and laid before him a letter, and forthwith turning her horse, saluted every one, and departed.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

Here, on the road, as the tumult of my senses was tolerably composed, I had command enough of head to break properly to his the course of life that the consequences of my separation from him had driven me into: which, at the same time that he tenderly deplored with me, he was the less shocked at; as, on reflecting how he had left me circumstances, he could not be entirely unprepared for it.
— from Memoirs of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) by John Cleland

Discipline is then generally identified with drill; and drill is conceived after the mechanical analogy of driving, by unremitting blows, a foreign substance into a resistant material; or is imaged after the analogy of the mechanical routine by which raw recruits are trained to a soldierly bearing and habits that are naturally wholly foreign to their possessors.
— from How We Think by John Dewey

The steps came nearer and nearer, the brushwood moved and rustled, and then the traveller came into view, and Squib saw him quite clearly.
— from Squib and His Friends by Evelyn Everett-Green

Jake thought he would find this difficult with the light of the lamp in his eyes, but Richter, who sat opposite, got up and reached across the table.
— from Brandon of the Engineers by Harold Bindloss

He saw the racecourse as the train went past and wound at a steady pace up the hill.
— from The Second String by Nat Gould

These have been referred alternately to the Baths of Titus and those of Trajan.
— from Walks in Rome by Augustus J. C. (Augustus John Cuthbert) Hare

There is to be no dancing, no tennis, nothing in the way of ordinary entertainment except, perhaps, the refreshments, and they too should be as nearly in keeping with the day as possible.
— from Things Worth Doing and How To Do Them by Lina Beard

What piety—what religious recollection, amidst that throng!
— from Flagg's The Far West, 1836-1837, part 2; and De Smet's Letters and Sketches, 1841-1842 by Pierre-Jean de Smet

—We regret to see that the Young Men’s Christian Association, of Washington, D. C., by the Rev. O. C. Morse, its secretary, feared to have a few colored Sunday-school teachers mingle with white persons engaged in similar work, withdrew invitations given, and at first refused admission to the three or four who came with cards of invitation, though they were afterwards allowed to enter.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 33, No. 04, April 1879 by Various

’—The degree of B.D.—Exercises before inception.—The degree of D.D.: the licence.—Vesperies.—Inception.—Questions disputed on these occasions in the thirteenth century.—How far the statutable requirements as to the period of study were a reality.—Expenses at inception.—Necessary Regency.—Conditions on which dispensations were granted.—Maintenance of Franciscan students at the University.—What proportion took degrees.—Relative numbers of the various religious Orders at Oxford.
— from The Grey Friars in Oxford by A. G. (Andrew George) Little

The physicians tell us that its use in biscuit and cake really adds to the healthfulness of these articles.
— from Harper's Round Table, May 5, 1896 by Various

she repeated, as she ran across the tapestry room to the uncurtained window; "I am sure he must have been very sad without me all day.
— from The Tapestry Room: A Child's Romance by Mrs. Molesworth