(I bequeath them to you my children, I tell them to you, for reasons, O bridegroom and bride.)
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

Charley is accordingly introduced, and under a heavy fire of eyes, sits down to her basin and a Druidical ruin of bread and butter.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Fisole, ℞ 207 FARSILIS, FARTILIS, a rich dish, something crammed or fattened, ℞ 131 FARTOR, sausage maker; keeper of animals to be fattened, ℞ 166 , 366 FARTURA, the fattening of animals; also the dressing used to stuff the bodies in roasting, forcemeat, ℞ 166 , 366 FATTENING FOWL, ℞ 166 , 366 FENICOPTERO, IN, ℞ 220 , 231 FENICULUM, FOENI—, fennel FENUM GRAECUM, FOEN—; the herb fenugreek, also SILICIA, ℞ 206 FERCULUM, a frame or tray on which several dishes were brought in at once, hence a course of dishes FERULA, a rod or branch, fennel-giant; —— ASA FOETIDA, same as LASERPITIUM FICATUM, fed or stuffed with figs, ℞ 259-60 FICEDULA, small bird, figpecker, ℞ 132 FICUS, fig, fig tree, FICULA, small fig Field herbs, ℞ 107 ; Field salad, ℞ 110 ; a dish of field vegetables, ℞ 134 Fieldfare, a bird, ℞ 497 Fig-fed pork, p. 285 , ℞ 259 Figpecker, a bird, ℞ 132 Figs, to preserve, ℞ 22 Filets Mignons, ℞ 262 Filtering liquors, ℞ 1 Financière garniture, ℞ 166 , 378 Fine ragout of brains and bacon, ℞ 147 Fine spiced wine, ℞ 1 Fish cookery, “The Fisherman,” title of Book X ; —— boiled, ℞ 432 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 455 ; —— fried, herb [286] sauce, ℞ 433 ; —— to preserve fried fish, ℞ 13 ; —— with cold dressing, ℞ 486 ; —— baked, ℞ 476-7 ; —— balls in wine sauce, ℞ 145 , 164 ; —— fond, ℞ 155 ; a dish of any kind of ——, ℞ 149 , 150 , 156 ; —— au gratin, ℞ 143 ; —— loaf, ℞ 429 ; —— liver pudding, ℞ 429 ; —— pickled, spiced, marinated, ℞ 480 ; —— oysters and eggs, ℞ 157 ; —— salt, any style, ℞ 430 , 431 ; stew, ℞ 153 , 432 ; —— sauce, acid, ℞ 38-9 FISKE BOLLER, ℞ 145 , 41 , seq.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

His book Recollections of Bar and Bench was published in 1914.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

The nodes lying in the drainage paths of hemorrhagic areas, especially the inguinal nodes, show active resorption of blood and blood pigments, and, as noted above, may be the seat of infection.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

International Affairs (Royal Institute for International Affairs, London) has excellent reviews of books arranged by geographic subheads.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

I cannot see how we can manage this matter without running the risk of being attacked by his troops."
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

Moreover, this new head had the further reputation of being a bear in his manners, and was, according to all reports, a man of a class in all respects the opposite of that to which his predecessor had belonged, and to which Stepan Arkadyevitch had hitherto belonged himself.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Sitting there with her head leaning pensively on one hand, holding the poor, wearied, and limp-looking baby wearily on the other arm, dirty, drabbled, and forlorn, with the firelight playing upon her features no longer fresh or young, but still refined and delicate, and even in her grotesque slovenliness still bearing a faint reminiscence of birth and breeding, it was not to be wondered that I did not fall into excessive raptures over the barbarian's kindness.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

He had been where there was red of blood and black of passion, and he was escaped.
— from The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane

It had come to be a stand-up fight between these two, a state of affairs which never fails to develop all the resources of brain and body.
— from Miss Stuart's Legacy by Flora Annie Webster Steel

On examining the cave temples of continental India, they appear to exhibit three stages of progress,—first mere unadorned cells, like those formed by Dasartha, the grandson of Asoca, in the granite rocks of Behar, about B.C. 200; next oblong apartments with a verandah in front, like that of Ganesa, at Cuttack; and lastly, ample halls with colonnades separating the nave from the aisles, and embellished externally with façades and agricultural decorations, such as the caves of Karli, Ajunta, and Ellora.[1]
— 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

Such a town possessing similar advantages in England, would shortly rival Ramsgate or Brighton, and become, in the season, the resort of fashion.
— from Peregrine in France: A Lounger's Journal, in Familiar Letters to His Friend by William Bromet

Perhaps like Sir Pertinax he had a theory upon the successful results of 'booing and booing.'
— from Art in England: Notes and Studies by Dutton Cook

It is all painted in gold, with many histories and representations of beasts and birds, of knights and dames, and many marvellous things.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Rustichello of Pisa

I don't know why he came here, unless it was because the troopers had cut off any other means of escape and he fancied some of his friends would hide him; and it's also possible that he took the risk of being arrested because of his anxiety to find out what the lawyer thought."
— from A Prairie Courtship by Harold Bindloss

Teachers should, first of all, enrich their own experience by these readings, occasionally bring a book to the class from which selections may be read, and, secondly, encourage the more enthusiastic and capable children to this wider field of reading.
— from Special Method in the Reading of Complete English Classics In the Grades of the Common School by Charles A. (Charles Alexander) McMurry

The want of an International Copyright chiefly robs our best and brightest!
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 120, October, 1867 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various

It is more distressing still when, in the recollection of the young lady, there are yet lingering the faint relics of brighter and better hopes.
— from Penelope: or, Love's Labour Lost, Vol. 2 (of 3) by William Pitt Scargill

The loss of my horse "Filfil" was a severe blow in this wild region, where beasts of burthen were unknown, and I had slight hopes of his recovery, as lions were plentiful in the country between Obbo and Farajoke; however, I offered a reward of beads and bracelets, and
— from The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile, And Explorations of the Nile Sources by Baker, Samuel White, Sir