After this, when the man comes to her house the woman should give him something capable of producing curiosity, and love in his heart, such as an affectionate present, telling him that it was specially designed for his use.
— from The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks by Vatsyayana

[Footnote: The adverb jam indicates a change from some preceding action or state to the different one expressed in the sentence, clause or phrase containing jam .
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

Oxygen under pressure in a cylinder, with outlet applied close to the patient's mouth and nose, is used in severe cases of pneumonia, cardiac disease, or wherever breathing is difficult.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

I grant the objection good where men, though they transgress, yet disown not the law; where fear of shame, censure, or punishment, carries the mark of some awe it has upon them.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

Now, when the thing’s done, don’t you see, can one possibly cast her off?
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

The Chapel was reached by a short cloister of primitive construction, and it was the simplest purest place of worship that Michael had ever seen.
— from Sinister Street, vol. 1 by Compton MacKenzie

And this is not at all inconsistent with the undoubted critical fact that in a Corpus Lyricorum the best songs of the northern tongues would undoubtedly rank higher, according to all sound canons of poetical criticism, than the best lyrics of the southern.
— from The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by George Saintsbury

Continue working 9 single crochet, 1 chain, 9 single crochet over padding cotton and fastening each time in the [341] chain stitch with a single crochet.
— from The Library of Work and Play: Needlecraft by Effie Archer Archer

The loss of chastity in woman was held as light sin in comparison to the degradation that marriage would bring to a priest, and young girls ruined by some candidate or priest, considered themselves doing God service in refusing a marriage that would cause the expulsion of the priestly lover from the ecclesiastical order.
— from Woman, Church & State The Original Exposé of Male Collaboration Against the Female Sex by Matilda Joslyn Gage

For the Salvia, Canna, Ricinus, Caladium and other strong-growing plants no soil is better than the muck or peat of swamps—soil composed of partly carbonised vegetable matter decomposed by the action of water.
— from The Flower Garden by Ida D. (Ida Dandridge) Bennett

Taking little space for speculation, comment, or picturesque coloring, there is all the more room left for the steady flow of the narrative.
— from Nineteenth Century Questions by James Freeman Clarke

Bring with you four bottles of bovril, couple of pounds meat lozenges, half-dozen tins sardines, bottle of brandy—yes, and soda, as you say; couple of pounds chocolate, two tins coffee and milk....
— from Round the World in Seven Days by Herbert Strang

They are sometimes called, and justly too, family-boats, and serve as the winter homes of a singular class of people, carrying their passengers and cargoes from the icy region of the Ohio to New Orleans.
— from Four Months in a Sneak-Box A Boat Voyage of 2600 Miles Down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, and Along the Gulf of Mexico by Nathaniel H. (Nathaniel Holmes) Bishop

Later a few "sleeping" cars of primitive construction provided sheets and blankets which were stored in a cupboard in the end of the car.
— from The Story of the Pullman Car by Joseph Husband