Of birds they eat quails and ducks and small birds without cooking, after first curing them; and everything else which they have belonging to the class of birds or fishes, except such as have been set apart by them as sacred, they eat roasted or boiled.
— from An Account of Egypt by Herodotus

3 for s.t. to appear suddenly to evoke recognition.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

They assembled then a numerous Thing, and Sigurd the earl recommended Hakon's cause to the Thing, and proposed him to the bondes as king.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

No one will confess the errors he was taught in his school days No one can show a dead man a good time One could do a man no graver injury than to call him a dancer Platitudes by which anguished minds are recalled to sanity Priests, animated by an hypocritical mania for prophecy Propensity of pouring one’s personal troubles into another’s ear Putting as good a face upon the matter as I could Religions responsible for the most abominable actions Remarkable resemblance to each other are the Bible and Homer Rumor but grows in the telling and strives to embellish Russia there is a sect called the skoptzi See or hear nothing at all of the affairs of every-day life
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

The black bones reclined at full length with one shoulder against the tree, and slowly the eyelids rose and the sunken eyes looked up at me, enormous and vacant, a kind of blind, white flicker in the depths of the orbs, which died out slowly.
— from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

[ When the ancient texts, which describe the size of Babylon and Thebes, are settled, the exaggerations reduced, and the measures ascertained, we find that those famous cities filled the great but not incredible circumference of about twenty-five or thirty miles.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

The Arabs say that every race of animals is governed by its chief, to whom the others are bound to pay obeisance.
— from Visits to Monasteries in the Levant by Robert Curzon

Patents are given to "promote the useful arts," but the inventor whom they are supposed to encourage reaps but a small share of the profits of his inventions.
— from Monopolies and the People by Charles Whiting Baker

hat they are caused by furious winds which make great rents in this bright garment; for they tell us that there are sun-storms far more terrible than any storm that ever raged on sea or land.
— from Twilight and Dawn; Or, Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation by Caroline Pridham

Is it possible that into yonder hall, where now the lion of S. Mark looks down alone on staring desolation, strode the Borgia in all his panoply of war, a gilded glittering dragon, and from the daïs tore the Montefeltri's throne, and from the arras stripped their ensigns, replacing these with his [Pg 164] own Bull and Valentinus Dux?
— from New Italian sketches by John Addington Symonds

This inconsiderate dogma taints much of the reasoning upon the chlorides, &c., and is manifestly culled in the Thomsonian school, though we have indeed heard that a Professor at Edinburgh thus addresses his pupils upon the above subject: “The elaborate researches of the illustrious Davy have taught us that common salt is a binary compound of chlorine and sodium, a chloride, therefore, or a chloruret of sodium.
— from The Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature and the Arts, July-December, 1827 by Various

His black coat, drab shorts, and gaiters, had a plain and business-like cut; and the short, square tie of his white cravat had a quaint resemblance to a flourish on a deed; the self-satisfied look, the assured step, the easy roll of the head—all bespoke one with whom the world was thriving; and it did not need the additional evidence of a certain habit he had of jingling his silver in his breeches-pocket as he went, to assure you that Rooney was a warm fellow, and had no want of cash.
— from Jack Hinton: The Guardsman by Charles James Lever

They are sure to earn rapid promotion.
— from The Iron Boys as Foremen; or, Heading the Diamond Drill Shift by James R. Mears

Matt got into the tower and signaled the engine room.
— from Motor Matt in Brazil; or, Under The Amazon by Stanley R. Matthews

Delaherche, an ardent Bonapartist at the time of the Plebiscitum, had been willing to admit since the earlier reverses that the Empire had erred in various ways.
— from The Downfall (La Débâcle): A Story of the Horrors of War by Émile Zola

But in consequence of frequent wars, the wall and the fortification of the Munychia were demolished; the Piræus was contracted to a small town, extending round the harbours and the temple of Jupiter Soter.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 2 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo