Sopra un nuovo alcaloide contenuto nel caffè.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

These principles cannot be derived from experience, for it would give neither strict universality, nor apodeictic certainty.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

As you have been our former deliverer, so save us now, and compassionately be the means of frustrating their evil devices, so that it may be said of our troubles, and the troubles of all Israel, 'It is enough,' and redeem us with an everlasting redemption.
— from Diaries of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore, Volume 2 (of 2) Comprising Their Life and Work as Recorded in Their Diaries, from 1812 to 1883 by Montefiore, Judith Cohen, Lady

"I see, I see; after all, even somewhat unusual names are constantly repeated."
— from A Man's Hearth by Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marie) Ingram

By and by, when I came to, I sent down to the rum-mill on the corner and hired an artist by the week to sit up nights and curse that stranger, and give me a lift occasionally in the daytime when I came to a hard place.
— from Sketches New and Old by Mark Twain

God send us now 'a century of right.' CHAPTER XIV A MILITARY DEMONSTRATION AND SOME GOOD NEWS Chieveley: January 8, 1900.
— from London to Ladysmith via Pretoria by Winston Churchill

And since bronchitis is usually accompanied by alarming symptoms of high fever, weakened heart, embarrassed breathing, mottled or blue skin, green stools, troublesome cough, disturbed sleep, "stopped up nose," and "choked up throat," it is of utmost importance not only to seek medical aid early, but also that the mother, herself, should have definite ideas concerning the proper manner of doing the following things in the line of treatment: Making and applying a mustard paste.
— from The Mother and Her Child by William S. (William Samuel) Sadler

Then a little clear flame sprang up, and therewith he saw the tree-stems clearly, and some twenty yards from him a horse, and a man stooping down over the fire, who sprang up now and cried out: "It is a knight-at-arms!
— from The Well at the World's End: A Tale by William Morris

Kellermann, François Christophe , Duke of Valmy, French general born in Alsace, son of a peasant; entered the army at 17; served in the Seven Years' War; embraced the Revolution; defeated the Duke of Brunswick at Valmy in 1792; served under Napoleon as commander of the reserves on the Rhine, but supported the Bourbons at the Restoration (1735-1820).
— from The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall

For many days the girl had caught scattered talk between the Judge and McNamara, and between Struve and his associates, but it all seemed foreign and dry, and beyond the fact that it bore on the litigation over the Anvil Creek mines, she understood nothing and cared less, particularly as a new interest had but recently come into her life, an interest in the form of a man—McNamara.
— from The Spoilers by Rex Beach

For the next thirty days I can sit up nights answering correspondence.
— from Bulldog Carney by William Alexander Fraser