pollous goun hêmeis meta to therapeusai tên en tô hêpati diathesin hapax kathêrantes apêllaxamen tou pathêmatos.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

Mr Verloc, who was no fool, had soon perceived the extraordinary character of the influence he had over Stevie, though he did not understand exactly its origin—the doctrine of his supreme wisdom and goodness inculcated by two anxious women.
— from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

George Thompson, too, was there; and America will yet own that he did a true man’s work in relighting the rapidly dying-out fire of true republicanism in the American heart, and be ashamed of the treatment he met at her hands.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

[2302] Terence is said to have done; when he perceived himself to be forsaken and poor, he voluntarily banished himself to Stymphalus, a base town in Arcadia, and there miserably died.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

They him decreed a prince most famed to be, and of leaders accounted best.
— from The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Snorri Sturluson

XIII Mathein d' enestin ou monon ex hôn hoi tanantia tithemenoi diapherontai tois enargôs phainomenois, eis hoson orthotêtos te kai alêtheias hêkei ta Hippokratous dogmata, alla kax autôn tôn kata meros
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

The first thing he did was to wipe his blood-stained hands on the red brocade.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Yet in the midst of his prosperity, let him remember that caveat of Moses, [855] Beware that he do not forget the Lord his God; that he be not puffed up, but acknowledge them to be his good gifts and benefits, and [856] the more he hath, to be more thankful, (as Agapetianus adviseth) and use them aright.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Since prohibition, the average citizen is drinking one hundred more cups of coffee a year than he did in the old days; and a good part of the increase is attributed to newly formed habits of drinking coffee between meals, at soda fountains, in tea and coffee shops, at hotels, and even in the homes.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

But for those who possessed an island with fortifications; who could fear our enemies only by sea, and there had their own force of galleys to protect them; who were independent and held in the highest honour by you—to act as these have done, this is not revolt—revolt implies oppression; it is deliberate and wanton aggression; an attempt to ruin us by siding with our bitterest enemies; a worse offence than a war undertaken on their own account in the acquisition of power.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

But after trying in vain to get this regulation waived, he left for America with his picture, having, a few days prior to his departure, dined with Mr. Wilberforce as the guns of Hyde Park were signalling the victory of Waterloo.
— from Heroes of the Telegraph by John Munro

True, he did justice to the veracity and honour of his foe.
— from Wanda, Vol. 3 (of 3) by Ouida

Having collected a good store of apples, which they seldom failed to do, the boys repaired to some one of their houses, where they roasted and ate the apples; and frequently the old would join the young, and large vessels of ale or cider would be brought in, and some of the roasted apples thrown hot into it, and the evening would then be spent with much mirth and innocent amusement; such as, I sorrow to think, have departed never to return.
— from The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 2 (of 3) or Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac by William Hone

Daily ever had I seen it, and even so, had the Rabbi, though he did seem to get a new vision of it from thy speech and face which did so please him."
— from The Coming of the King by Bernie Babcock

The horizontal drive wheel had a diameter of ten feet, carried eighty-eight wooden cogs which engaged a pinion with fifteen leaves, and there were nine arms on the reel at the other end of the shaft which drove the chain.
— from Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan by F. H. (Franklin Hiram) King

The coast defenses of the United States proper are generally all that could be desired, and in some respects they are rather more elaborate than under present conditions are needed to stop an enemy's fleet from entering the harbors defended.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

The thermometer had dropped to zero, and a little below on one occasion, during the nights for a week past.
— from Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico by E. L. (Ellsworth Leonardson) Kolb

In St. Louis, during the prevalence of cholera in 1849, the number treated by three homœopathic doctors, to July 13th, was 1,567, of which 51 died—a loss of 3 1 / 4 per cent.
— from Asiatic Cholera: A treatise on its origin, pathology, treatment, and cure by Elijah Whitney

This was, to lead Hugh Sommers to his daughter and assist them to escape in the boat, along with Brown the sailor and his companions—intending, of course, to escape along with them!
— from The Middy and the Moors: An Algerine Story by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne