A table means necessary places and a revision a revision of a little thing it means it does mean that there has been a stand, a stand where it did shake.
— from Tender Buttons Objects—Food—Rooms by Gertrude Stein

I said more than I meant, I dare say, only you see I know I'm right.
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

As the portion of this story given here has in various forms circulated orally in Sussexville, she has consented to my use of her name, on condition that I make it distinctly known that she emphatically contradicts every detail of Plattner's account of her husband's last moments.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

from the Signs which the Indians make in discribing this animale they have herect pointed horns, tho one of our Engages Lapage, assures us that he Saw them in the Black hills where the Little Missouri river passes them, and that they were in every respect like our domestic Sheep, and like them the mail had lunated horns bent backwards and twisted.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

I do think there is mettle in death, which commits some loving act upon her, she hath such a celerity in dying.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Accusation passes; the incorruptible Maximilien is decreed Accused.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

This rise and fall of Walden at long intervals serves this use at least; the water standing at this great height for a year or more, though it makes it difficult to walk round it, kills the shrubs and trees which have sprung up about its edge since the last rise—pitch pines, birches, alders, aspens, and others—and, falling again, leaves an unobstructed shore; for, unlike many ponds and all waters which are subject to a daily tide, its shore is cleanest when the water is lowest.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

that bad man rich; why he who, in our opinion, ought to suffer acutely for his abandoned life enjoys himself, while sorrow pursues him whose praiseworthy life leads us to suppose he should be happy; why the innocent man is dismissed from the bar not only unavenged, but even condemned, being either wronged by the iniquity of the judge, or overwhelmed by false evidence, while his guilty adversary, on the other hand, is not only discharged with impunity, but even has his claims admitted; why the ungodly enjoys good health, while the godly pines in sickness; why ruffians are of the soundest constitution, while they who could not hurt any one even with a word are from infancy afflicted with complicated disorders; why he who is useful to society is cut off by premature death, while those who, as it might seem, ought never to have been so much as born have lives of unusual length; why he who is full of crimes is crowned with honours, while the blameless man is buried in the darkness of neglect.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

For indeed it is with full sail that the intemperate man is borne on to pleasure by his desires, and surrenders himself to them, and even plays the part of pilot to the vessel; whereas the incontinent man is dragged sidelong into the disgraceful, and is its victim, as it were, while he desires eagerly to resist and overcome his passion, as Timon bantered Anaxarchus: "The recklessness and frantic energy of Anaxarchus to rush anywhere seemed like a dog's courage, but he being aware of it was miserable, so people said, but his voluptuous nature ever plunged him into excesses again, nature which even 108 most sophists are afraid of."
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

He entered the camp with it in his hand; and as there was no tribunal ready, and the soldiers were too impatient to raise one of turf, which the common method, they piled a number of pack-saddles one upon the other, upon which Pompey mounted, and gave them this information: "Mithridates is dead.
— from The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch Being Parts of the "Lives" of Plutarch, Edited for Boys and Girls by Plutarch

[†] The Kyng said; “As the glew is gane, “Bettir than thou I mycht it do, “For I had mair lasair thar-to.
— from The Bruce by John Barbour

The tin is melted in deep oblong vessels, and kept in a state of fusion by a charcoal fire.
— from Popular Technology; or, Professions and Trades. Vol. 2 (of 2) by Edward Hazen

“I have been solicited to give Readings à la Dickens; but though pecuniarily a temptation, there is much I dislike in the exhibition....
— from Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I by Charles James Lever

, it appears extremely probable that the enlargement is at first produced by infiltration of lymph betwixt the fibrillæ of a nervous twig, which becomes separated and inclosed by the deposit—that they afterwards increase in size—that the interfibrous matter is deposited in greater quantity, and is farther condensed—and that thereby the nervous filaments are still more separated and extenuated.
— from Elements of Surgery by Robert Liston