“Someone has told you the secret; or, perhaps, you guessed that he was here.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

This seems to be a chicken broth, or essence for a sauce or perhaps a medicine.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

Let the several deaths of men of all sorts, and of all sorts of professions, and of all sort of nations, be a perpetual object of thy thoughts,... so that thou mayst even come down to Philistio, Phoebus, and Origanion.
— from Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

So that if we dwell for a little longer on this subject, we shall not, in my opinion, be wearisome to our readers, who will attend both for the sake of understanding what is the end of this city of which we speak, and for the sake of the sweetness of peace which is dear to all.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

We thanked them for this store of provision but informed them that our men not being accustomed to live on roots alone we feared it would make them sick, to obviate which we proposed exchangeing a good horse in reather low order for a young horse in tolerable order with a view to kill.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

If we were to call this period reiteration , the designation would hardly bring out more clearly than does the word recitation , the complete domination of instruction by rehearsing of secondhand information, by memorizing for the sake of producing correct replies at the proper time.
— from How We Think by John Dewey

Feathery-white masses of cloud stood overhead; patches of bright blue sky peeped out between them.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The admirable strain of Pindar.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

In matters having reference to the recovering of arrears of taxes, to contracts for the sale of goods and produce of industry, to turning a royalty to account, to making hazardous commercial enterprises lucrative, or to the accumulating of large sums of money for the use of sovereigns or poor nobles, the Jews were always at hand, and might invariably be reckoned upon.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

Once or twice a shudder of strange self-consciousness went through her, and she felt guilty, immodest; but upon that sensation followed a surge of passionate joy, obliterating memory and forethought.
— from New Grub Street by George Gissing

As it was, she was actually beginning to think that she should like to make Lucy cry by slapping or pinching her, especially as it might vex Tom, whom it was of no use to slap, even if she dared, because he didn’t mind it.
— from Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 by Charles Herbert Sylvester

(3) If further we ask of what actions as much as this can be proved, it seems only possible to prove it with regard to those which are actually generally practised among us.
— from Principia Ethica by G. E. (George Edward) Moore

The profile which is reproduced from "Science," shows the state of progress on January 1st, 1888, and the amount of excavation that has been done since that time would make but a slight difference in the appearance of the profile.
— from The National Geographic Magazine, Vol. I., No. 4, October, 1889 by Various

Summary of post-Domesday evidence, 78 .
— from The English Village Community Examined in its Relations to the Manorial and Tribal Systems and to the Common or Open Field System of Husbandry; An Essay in Economic History (Reprinted from the Fourth Edition) by Frederic Seebohm

There were dainty sprigs of pink over the white ground, and every berry that dropped into her bright pail was no longer a berry but a sprig of pink chintz.
— from Marcia Schuyler by Grace Livingston Hill

I do not think it the highest sort of poet.
— from The Victorian Age in Literature by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Haney turned with a jovial remark on his lips and met Wellesly’s eyes, two narrow strips of pale gray shining brilliantly from between half-closed lids, and saw that his game had played itself smoothly as far as it would go.
— from With Hoops of Steel by Florence Finch Kelly

The indignation of the Spaniards, when the news of the sack of Panama reached Spain, rose to a white heat.
— from The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century by Clarence Henry Haring

Aforetime they came together to learn; now they feign that it is a kind of life instituted to merit grace and righteousness; yea, they preach that it is a state of perfection, and they put it far above all other kinds of life ordained of God.
— from The Augsburg Confession The confession of faith, which was submitted to His Imperial Majesty Charles V at the diet of Augsburg in the year 1530 by Philipp Melanchthon