so I melt and steal away from myself Tis the sharpnss of our mind that gives the edge to our pains Tis then no longer correction, but revenge Tis there she talks plain French Titillation of ill-natured pleasure in seeing others suffer Title of barbarism to everything that is not familiar Titles being so dearly bought Titles of my chapters do not always comprehend the whole matter To be a slave, incessantly to be led by the nose by one’s self To be, not to seem To condemn them as impossible, is by a temerarious presumption To contemn what we do not comprehend To die of old age is a death rare, extraordinary, and singular To do well where there was danger was the proper office
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

He has searched, with a curious eye, the connections of the Chinese with the nations of the West; but these connections are slight, casual, and obscure; nor did the Romans entertain a suspicion that the Seres or Sinae possessed an empire not inferior to their own.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

When a good man dies, his body is buried, but his soul, ex homine daemon evadit , becomes forthwith a demigod, nothing disparaged with malignity of air, or variety of forms, rejoiceth, exults and sees that perfect beauty with his eyes.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Five months ago I separated myself entirely from the family, and no one dared enter my room except at stated times, to clean and tidy it, and so on, and to bring me my meals.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

When albumen coagulates in any fluid it readily encloses any substances that may be suspended in the fluid.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

After dinner her majesty returning through Cornehill, entered the burse on the south side; and after that she had viewed every part thereof above the ground, especially the pawn, which was richly furnished with all sorts of the finest wares in the city, she caused the same burse by an herald and trumpet to be proclaimed the Royal Exchange, and so to be called from thenceforth, and not otherwise.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

When I'd ransacked everywhere and saw they were not there, something seemed to stab me to the heart.
— from Short Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

at Malta with her right eye, and shaking the pepper away from Quebec with her head, "I begin to think George is in the roving way again.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

She looked at him with her beautiful radiant eyes and seemed to say, “I like you very much, but please don’t laugh at my people.”
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

"Certainly not," returned Everard, and so the anthem was omitted.
— from Isabel Leicester A Romance by Maude Alma by Maude Alma

At larger farms it is the bailiff who rises early and sees that the labourers are properly employed; and the cheesemaking is entrusted to a dairymaid hired at high wages, who often combines with that duty the office of general housekeeper.
— from The Toilers of the Field by Richard Jefferies

No pains which such ingenuity and energy can render effective are spared to make our fabrics equal those of the British market, and we need only to be disabused of the old prejudice, and to keep up with the movement of our own country, and find out our own resources.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 81, July, 1864 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

The girls, having entered the limousine from the door opposite the tent, were all unaware of the rattlesnake episode and supposed the shot had been directed against the coyotes.
— from Aunt Jane's Nieces and Uncle John by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

The gate of the scholar’s house stood open, for an officer in the Regent’s service had really entered a short time before, but the Scythian guards sent by the exegetus Demetrius, one of Barine’s friends, were keeping back the throng of curious spectators.
— from Cleopatra — Complete by Georg Ebers

The additional expense for cultivation would be about eight rupees eight annas; so that for thirty-eight rupees eight annas you have for the season one biggah of 1,000 rose trees.
— from The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by P. L. (Peter Lund) Simmonds

And you can run errands after school this winter when she can't get around—she said so, didn't she, Roddy?" Brother nodded.
— from Brother and Sister by Josephine Lawrence