The cafés that line the boulevards of Paris and the larger cities of France all serve coffee, either plain or with milk, and almost always with liqueur.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Los pasteles no son, ni con mucho, [11] tan abundantes como aquí y se compran en pastelerías, así como las tortas y masas.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Las aguas, que ya vienen hostigadas, corriendo en frenesí sobre un plano vastísimo, llegan a la ceja inmensa y se deslizan al vacío, o chocan, antes de saltar, con enormes peñascos, y rebotan, y en los aires hacen juegos atléticos que la luz colorea con mágicos cambiantes.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

It is not needful to expose here the sophistry in both arguments, which has been already done elsewhere; 156 it is only needful to remark that neither proof, even if they could be defended by all manner of dialectical subtlety, could ever pass from the schools into the world, or have the slightest influence on the mere sound Understanding.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

The keeper of the Kildare street museum appears, dragging a lorry on which are the shaking statues of several naked goddesses, Venus Callipyge, Venus Pandemos, Venus Metempsychosis, and plaster figures, also naked, representing the new nine muses, Commerce, Operatic Music, Amor, Publicity, Manufacture, Liberty of Speech, Plural Voting, Gastronomy, Private Hygiene, Seaside Concert Entertainments, Painless Obstetrics and Astronomy for the People.)
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

And so the utmost the student of sociology can ever predict is that if a genius of a certain sort show the way, society will be sure to follow.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

Maiden-hair, Cleavers, or Goosegrass, Mallows, Marsh-mallows, Docks, Bawm, Water-cresses, Cinquefoil, Scordium, &c. Ease pain.
— 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

Lesser punishments included flogging, pillory, branding, the stocks, clipping ears, piercing tongues, and imprisonment in dungeons made purposely as horrible as possible, dark, noisome dens without furniture or conveniences, often too small for a man to stand upright or to lie at full length.
— from The Age of the Reformation by Preserved Smith

There was no one left for whom she cared except perhaps a few neighbors.
— from The Camp Fire Girls on the Field of Honor by Margaret Vandercook

[124] "Les royales ceremonies faites en l'edification d'une chapelle de Capucins a Londres en Angleterre dans le Palais de la Roine; faite par son commandement et par la permission du Roy; en laquelle chapelle elle a posé la premiere pierre.
— from Henrietta Maria by Henrietta Haynes

I doubt if any such contrast ever presented itself in any country or in any age.—Through a series of purifications in an inverse sense, the faction has become reduced to its dregs; nothing remains of the vast surging wave of 1789 but its froth and its slime; the rest has been cast off or has withdrawn to one side; at first the highest class, the clergy, the nobles, and the parliamentarians; next the middle class of traders, manufacturers, and the bourgeois; and finally the best of the inferior class, small proprietors, farmers, 34168 and master-workmen—in short, the prominent in every pursuit, profession, state, or occupation, whoever possesses capital, a revenue, an establishment, respectability, public esteem, education and mental and moral culture.
— from The French Revolution - Volume 2 by Hippolyte Taine

Some Aspects of Seventeenth Century English Printing with Special Reference to Joseph Moxon , by Carey S. Bliss.
— from Medical Investigation in Seventeenth Century England Papers Read at a Clark Library Seminar, October 14, 1967 by Lester S. (Lester Snow) King

She had previously made up her mind to act most diplomatically with her brother, had arranged all her plans, was fully convinced that she comprehended every particular of Maria's situation, and saw through all her secrets; but her conversation with Mr. Mingy Bowes had shaken and confused all her thoughts, views, and purposes, so that she could lay her hand upon nothing; and when she did find the skein of thought, it was so tangled and twisted that she could not unravel it for the life of her.
— from The Forgery; or, Best Intentions. by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

This discovery led to some crimination, each party charging the other with fraud.
— from Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 1 by George S. (George Sewall) Boutwell

Disse Rustico: Figliuola, egli non averrà sempre cosí: e per fare, che questo non avvenisse, da sei volte anziche di su il letticel si movesero, ve 'l rimisero; tantoche per quella volta gli trasser sí la superbia del capo, che egli si stette volentieri in pace.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio