The family thus liable to furnish at least one human victim every year was of royal descent, for they traced their lineage to Minyas, the famous old king of Orchomenus, the monarch of fabulous wealth, whose stately treasury, as it is called, still stands in ruins at the point where the long rocky hill of Orchomenus melts into the vast level expanse of the Copaic plain.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

cum salsamento istoc recenti and Tor. continues without interruption, indicating, perhaps, that the following formula is to be served, or treated (boiled) like the above.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

So I ran away to Kensington Gardens and lived a long long time among the fairies.”
— from Peter Pan by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

They flower about the end of May, and the seed is ripe about the beginning of July.
— 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

Waked betimes and talked half an hour with my father, and so I rose and to my office, and about 9 o’clock by water from the Old Swan to White Hall and to chappell, which being most monstrous full, I could not go into my pew, but sat among the quire.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Brass instruments are so similar in range and timbre that the discussion of register is unnecessary.
— from Principles of Orchestration, with Musical Examples Drawn from His Own Works by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov

It might have been supposed that giants with immense strides, such as Ilya Muromets and Solovy the Brigand, were still surviving in Russia, and that their gigantic steeds were still alive.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

So I ran away to sea; Yes, I ran away to sea; With a little gingham, bottle of cambric tea, And a penny wrapped up in my hankerchee, For I wanted to be free, So I ran away to sea."
— from The Old Tobacco Shop A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of Adventure by William Bowen

“Have you nothing to say in reply?” asked the general.
— from Vaninka Celebrated Crimes by Alexandre Dumas

Leibniz points out with his usual energy its affinity with the Scholastic doctrine of "substantial forms"—(a very different theory from Bacon's) "formas quasdam substantiales ejusmodi sibi imaginatus videtur, quæ per se sint causa motus in corporibus, quemadmodum Scholastici capiunt;" and proceeds to say, "ita reditur ad tot deunculos, quot formas substantiales, et Gentilem prope polytheismum....
— from The Philosophy of Natural Theology An Essay in confutation of the scepticism of the present day by William Jackson

Gentlemen —It is now about five years since I received a two months' treatment for my case and I have had no return of the symptoms, I consider it unnecessary to take more medicines because I am gaining strength every day.
— from The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand by Ray Vaughn Pierce

If the tongue is parched and the mouth dry, the flow of saliva is restrained and the first step in the process of digestion
— from Health: How to get it and keep it. The hygiene of dress, food, exercise, rest, bathing, breathing, and ventilation. by Walter V. Woods

Clarence Island (9° S., 172° W.); discovered in the Pandora (G. Hamilton's "Voyage," p. 75): it is said, "in running along the land, we saw several canoes crossing the lagoons ;" as this island is in the close vicinity of other low islands, and as it is said, that the natives make reservoirs of water in old cocoa-nut trees (which shows the nature of the land), I have no doubt it is an atoll, and have coloured it blue.
— from Coral Reefs; Volcanic Islands; South American Geology — Complete by Charles Darwin

In the checkered area of human experience the seasons are all mingled as in the golden age: fruit and blossom hang together; in the same moment the sickle is reaping and the seed is sprinkled; one tends the green cluster and another treads the winepress.
— from Daniel Deronda by George Eliot

We shall have all the ships in readiness; and the junction of a few ships, would make us again superior to the enemy's force.
— from Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez, Vol. I by Ross, John, Sir

"What [Pg 107] can I do for England?" is, I believe, still in request among the makers of a certain class of anthology; but English poetry in the bulk is just the same as if Mr. Henley had never been.
— from The Egregious English by T. W. H. (Thomas William Hodgson) Crosland