With trembling fingers he broke the seal and drew out several sheets of paper, smoothed them out before him, and began sorting them.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Water 5.00 Starch 85.07 Parenchyma 4.80 Nitrogenous matter 3.68 Crystallizable sugar 0.29 Gummy matter 1.71 Oil 0.13 Phosphate of lime 0.40 Chloride of potash, phosphate of potash, acetic acid, calcareous vegetable salt, salt of potash, sulphur Traces.
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera

All was arranged beforehand, and as it meant some sort of public scene I had got his father’s consent.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

6.—“No state at war with another shall countenance such modes of hostility as would make mutual confidence impossible in a subsequent state of peace: such are the employment of assassins ( percussores ) or of poisoners ( venefici ), breaches of capitulation, the instigating and making use of treachery ( perduellio ) in the hostile state.”
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

“The fair humanities of old religions, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and watery depths; all these have vanished; They live no longer in the faith of reason.”
— from The Christ: A Critical Review and Analysis of the Evidences of His Existence by John E. (John Eleazer) Remsburg

It substituted sentences of penal servitude for all crimes formerly visited by sentences of transportation to a less period than 14 years.
— from About London by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie

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— from Mga Paquigpulong sa Iningles ug Binisaya by Gregorio de Santiago Vela

Therefore, as God has set some things in broad daylight; as he has given us some certain knowledge, though limited to a few things in comparison, probably as a taste of what intellectual creatures are capable of to excite in us a desire and endeavour after a better state: so, in the greatest part of our concernments, he has afforded us only the twilight, as I may so say, of probability; suitable, I presume, to that state of mediocrity and probationership he has been pleased to place us in here; wherein, to check our over-confidence and presumption, we might, by every day's experience, be made sensible of our short-sightedness and liableness to error; the sense whereof might be a constant admonition to us, to spend the days of this our pilgrimage with industry and care, in the search and following of that way which might lead us to a state of greater perfection.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 2 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 3 and 4 by John Locke

Then add a sliced onion, several sprigs of parsley, small pieces of chopped celery tops, well-scraped roots of celery, and allow to simmer three-quarters of an hour longer.
— from Mary at the Farm and Book of Recipes Compiled during Her Visit among the "Pennsylvania Germans" by Edith May Bertels Thomas

Let's get something inside, for the old ship sheers off precious soon, and then there won't be so much as a bite for us still we're out of the river.
— from Under the Star-Spangled Banner: A Tale of the Spanish-American War by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton

A sudden shock of pain stabbed through his head and everything spun dizzily before him.
— from Raiders Invisible by Desmond Winter Hall