Moreover, not only honey but all other sweet substances are readily converted into bile in the aforesaid bodies which are warm for any of the reasons mentioned.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

(12) Salt, Henry S. Animal Rights Considered in Relation to Social Progress .
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Such a rich chapter it had been, when one came to look back on it all!
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

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— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

The counsel of my mother deep Impressed upon my soul I keep, When by the fire I took my stand, And Ráma clasped in his my hand.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

And with that word he for a quisshen ran, And seyde, `Kneleth now, whyl that yow leste, 965 Ther god your hertes bringe sone at reste!' Can I not seyn, for she bad him not ryse, If sorwe it putte out of hir remembraunce, Or elles that she toke it in the wyse Of duetee, as for his observaunce; 970 But wel finde I she dide him this plesaunce, That she him kiste, al-though she syked sore; And bad him sitte a-doun with-outen more.
— from Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer

But I'll write soon; and remember, Christie, I shall feel as if I had only paid a very little of my debt if you go back to the sad old life, and lose your faith and hope again.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

But I am certain that not one of us can possibly have given you any grounds for such a rapid change in your manner.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

It was three feet in length, and but six inches in height, with four very short legs, the feet armed with long claws of a brilliant scarlet, and resembling coral in substance.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

Beside Catherine sat a Ritualist clergyman in cassock and long cloak—a saint clearly, though perhaps, to judge from the slight restlessness of movement that seemed to quiver through him perpetually, an irritable one.
— from Robert Elsmere by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

I saw a red cabbage in the picture and a pot of porter, the froth extremely fine.
— from Fated to Be Free: A Novel by Jean Ingelow

Before the casket is covered with sod, a religious ceremony is held in this way: All the relatives present, beginning with the nearest kinsman, kneel down and bow from one to three times, to the one whom they now hold in such great esteem.
— from Riches of Grace: A Compilation of Experiences in the Christian Life A Narration of Trials and Victories Along the Way by E. E. (Enoch Edwin) Byrum

As he moved, with a slow and solemn step, the flickering lamp deepening the shadows of his solemn and rugged countenance, it would have been impossible to conceive a being more eminently fitted to take the lead in ceremonies consecrated to the evil one.
— from Discoveries Among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon by Austen Henry Layard

The subtlety of the sweeping and rolling curves in the real griffin, the way they waver and change and fold, down the neck, and along the wing, and in and out among the serpent coils, is incomparably grander, merely as grouping of ornamental line, than anything in the other; nor is it fine as ornamental only, but as massively use 106 ful, giving weight of stone enough to answer the entire purpose of pedestal sculpture.
— from Modern Painters, Volume 3 (of 5) by John Ruskin

The immense expenditure of the quartermaster's department—the inadequacy of the funds with which it was supplied—the reciprocal disgusts and complaints produced by these causes, had determined congress to make still another radical change in the system.
— from The Life of George Washington, Vol. 3 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States by John Marshall

[4] [Footnote 1: See the correspondence between the United States and Russia collected in House of Representatives, 51st Congress, 1st Session.
— from History of the Jews in Russia and Poland, Volume 2 [of 3] From the Death of Alexander I until the Death of Alexander III (1825-1894) by Simon Dubnow

I have always maintained and still maintain that the most disastrous, shameful, and ruinous condition into which this land can fall is that in which the magistrates are overcome by the rabble of the towns and receive laws from them.
— from Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War, 1618-19 by John Lothrop Motley