SYN: Sequence, continuance, continuity, duration, succession, connection, extension, prolongation, perpetuation, concatenation.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Marcellus frequently refers to it as used for stirring liquids in a vessel: Immo manu vel digitis moderantibus paulatim insperges et adsidue spathomela commovebis et permiscebis, post haec omnia mittes oleum chamaemelinum, et iterum igni non nimio adposita olla lente et paulatim decoques medicamen, ita ut illud manu non contingas, sed spathomela agites (vii. 19).
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

The most sensitive cell ever produced, previous to my investigations, was one made by Dr. Werner Siemens, which was 14.8 times as conductive in sunlight as in dark.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 492, June 6, 1885 by Various

y entre aucun respect de lucre ou proffit particulier: car ce n’est pas assez, comme vous sçavez trop mieux, que leur amitié soit cogneue et prinse pour ferme et establie par entr’eux et leurs amys, qui est à leur grand confort et encouragement: Mais aussy est très expédient de l’entretenir et conduire en sorte que leurs Ennemis et malveillans n’ayant cause d’y pouvoir penser, ne suspecter aucune interruption, qui sera à leur très grand esbahissement Confusion et desconfort:
— from Life and Letters of Thomas Cromwell, Vol. 1 of 2 Life, Letters to 1535 by Roger Bigelow Merriman

reptasti per scuta puer, regumque recentes exuviae tibi ludus erant, primusque solebas aspera complecti torvum post proelia patrem, signa triumphato quotiens flexisset ab Histro 25 Arctoa de strage calens, et poscere partem de spoliis, Scythicos arcus aut rapta Gelonis cingula vel iaculum Daci vel frena Suebi.
— from Claudian, volume 1 (of 2) With an English translation by Maurice Platnauer by Claudius Claudianus

They think of nothing save their own pleasure and amusement, and have no real love either for the child, who wearies them, or for the mistress, who, tired of their incapacity, is continually scolding without making any real change in the conduct, that is bad because the girl lacks what can only be given her by age, and a much longer experience than she can ever possibly possess.
— from From Kitchen to Garret: Hints for young householders by J. E. (Jane Ellen) Panton

578 –580.—The rules of hospitality in the main based on egoistic considerations, p. 581 .—The stranger, supposed to bring with him good luck or blessings, pp. 581 –583.—The blessings of a stranger considered exceptionally powerful, p.
— from The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck

Je dis seulement cecy en passant pour ceux qui n'en sçavent rien du tout."
— from A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I by Augustus De Morgan

We leave them as riddles for the reader, with the words which a sixteenth century economist prettily prefaces to his analysis of the chief economic problems of his age:—“And albeit ye might well saye that there be men of greater witte then I; yet fools (as the proverb is) speake some times to the purpose, and as many headdes, so many wittes ... and though eche of theise by them selves doe not make perfitte the thing, yet when every man bringeth in his guifte, a meane witted man maye of the whole (the best of everie mans devise beinge gathered together) make as it were a pleasant garland and perfitte.”
— from The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century by R. H. (Richard Henry) Tawney