Leaves oval, tapering at both extremities, 7-nerved.
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera

Have we not tramps and beggars enough already to pester us as we sit at meat?
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

I could not talk anything but English, and the girl knew nothing but Greek, or Armenian, or some such barbarous tongue, but we got along very well.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

We repeat, that this auscultation brings encouragement; it is by this persistence in encouragement that we wish to conclude these pages, an austere interlude in a mournful drama.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Turning now to the opposite characters of Commodus, Severus, Antoninus Caracalla, and Maximinus, you will find them all cruel and rapacious-men who, to satisfy their soldiers, did not hesitate to commit every kind of iniquity against the people; and all, except Severus, came to a bad end; but in Severus there was so much valour that, keeping the soldiers friendly, although the people were oppressed by him, he reigned successfully; for his valour made him so much admired in the sight of the soldiers and people that the latter were kept in a way astonished and awed and the former respectful and satisfied.
— from The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

An attempt to sing "The Red Flag" was also suppressed by a section of the unemployed [Illustration: Books We All Pretend to have Read The Bible is a real book, although during the whole of the nineteenth century the Churches turned a blind eye to the fact that it was a free translation by Jacobean clergymen of a Greek text of doubtful authenticity and of multiple authorship.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

Adverbs derived from adjectives have as their comparative the accusative singular neuter of the comparative adjective; the superlative is formed like that of the adjective, but ends in -ē : as, altē , on high , altius , altissimē .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

Afternoon tea at a very large house party or where especially invited people are expected for tea, should include two plates of hot food such as toast or hot biscuits split open and buttered, toasted and buttered English muffins, or crumpets, corn muffins or hot gingerbread.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

Though acknowledged by European countries and by many of the Hispanic republics, he could not win recognition from the United States, either as provisional President or as a candidate for regular election to the office.
— from The Hispanic Nations of the New World: A Chronicle of Our Southern Neighbors by William R. (William Robert) Shepherd

The reader may think that this or that character deserves to come to a bad end; but not so Chaucer, who regards them all as kindly, as impersonally as Nature herself.
— from Outlines of English and American Literature An Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived by William J. (William Joseph) Long

In some cases this may be out of their power, because the original association may have been totally forgotten, and yet those connected with it may continue to act: but even when we cannot succeed in any particular instance in detecting the cause of the errour, we shall do the pupils material service by exciting them to observe their own minds.
— from Practical Education, Volume II by Richard Lovell Edgeworth

219] not like at present that any body else should know any thing about it."
— from The Settlers in Canada by Frederick Marryat

The chief object the young men had in view seemed to be to exhibit their agility by every species of bound and fling of which the human frame is capable, including the rather desperate feat of dashing themselves flat upon the ground.
— from Chasing the Sun by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

We, in England, are apt to speak of republican institutions, and of universal suffrage which is perhaps the chief of them, as belonging equally to all the States.
— from North America — Volume 2 by Anthony Trollope

"Right off yonder the American brig Enterprise of fourteen guns, commanded by Captain Burrows, fought the British Boxer , also of fourteen guns.
— from The Launch Boys' Cruise in the Deerfoot by Edward Sylvester Ellis

Mony of them are all right, but some of them are bad enough; and it often happens that an honest man maun work for a scoundrel, and maun dance to his piping whether he pipes right or wrang."
— from Honest Wullie; and Effie Patterson's Story by Lydia L. Rouse

She stood, swaying a little with sleep, in the warm dusk; she became dimly conscious that someone was surveying her through a bright eyeglass.
— from Jimmy Quixote: A Novel by Tom Gallon

Since that time a new and pacific Ministry had come into office; it was no part of Palmerston's policy to keep alive the antagonism between England and France; and he readily accepted an arrangement which, while it saved France from witnessing the total destruction of an ally, left Egypt to a ruler who, whatever his faults, had certainly shown a greater capacity for government than any Oriental of that age.
— from A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878 by Charles Alan Fyffe