Well, I'll be damned if I see what thanks you've got from him!" Chapter 8 The autumn days declined to winter.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

Epithymi, thymi, ana drachmas duas, sacchari albi unciam unam, croci grana tria, Cinamomi drachmam unam; misce, fiat pulvis.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The universe revolves around a centre once in twenty-four hours, but the orbits of the fixed stars take a different direction from those of the planets.
— from Timaeus by Plato

all, the whole, entire ( § 108 ) trâ-dô, -ere, -didî, -ditus [ trâns , across , + dô , deliver ], give up, hand over, surrender, betray trâ-dûcô, -ere, -dûxî, -ductus [ trâns , across , + dûcô , lead ], lead across trahô, -ere, trâxî, trâctus , draw, pull, drag .
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

The Alabama doctors declared it a huge reptile, and bestowed upon it the name of Basilosaurus.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

I say of the same order, because there are discernible differences among nervous shocks that are differently caused; and the primitive nervous shock probably differs somewhat from each of them.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

Before she has well done that, she takes a deep dive into the water.
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

He told of that autumn day drawing to its close, with the gold and the red fading out of the west, and the night gathering its shadows to cover the faces of the dead.
— from The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin

Tess and Dot did their part, and that the entire five and ten cent store was not bought out was not their fault.
— from The Corner House Girls at School by Grace Brooks Hill

The girl's eyes went to the wall close to where Eaton stood; she seemed to measure with them a definite distance from the door and a point shoulder high, and to resist the impulse to come over and put her hand upon the spot.
— from The Blind Man's Eyes by William MacHarg

Irrigation of the colon in these cases is one of the essential means of successful treatment; it should be done twice a day during the first few days of the disease.
— from The Eugenic Marriage, Volume 4 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies by W. Grant (William Grant) Hague

THE CULTIVATION OF OUR CAPACITIES.—Finally, we may approach the question whether it is reasonable to awake dormant desires, to call into being new needs; which, satisfied, may be recognized as a good, but which, unsatisfied, may result in unhappiness.
— from A Handbook of Ethical Theory by George Stuart Fullerton

Some acidity is, therefore, developed in contrast to the absolutely fresh condition of the milk used in Swiss and the acidification developed during the making of Cheddar (Fascetti).
— from The Book of Cheese by Charles Thom

In Copris nemestrinus these are discoidal, diverging, and inclining forwards [818] .
— from An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. 3 or Elements of the Natural History of the Insects by William Kirby