this is a discription of medecine that I nevr have recourse to in my practice except in cases of the intermittent fever.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

“I still have them in my pocket, except one which I spent at the Inn of the Red Lobster.”
— from The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi

So withdrawing her leg off my loins, she turned on her side, so as to present her glorious buttocks before me, and pressed them into my belly and against my thighs, which seemed to introduce my prick even further than he was within before.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

On the whole therefore—although I am not ignorant that, in many popularly elected School Boards, there is a reaction in favour of "the cheap system" as it is called—I am myself disposed to think that this is one of the many cases in which expense is the truest economy.
— from Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Illustrated) by Edwin Abbott Abbott

We shall, accordingly, show that the mathematical method is unattended in the sphere of philosophy by the least advantage—except, perhaps, that it more plainly exhibits its own inadequacy—that geometry and philosophy are two quite different things, although they go band in hand in hand in the field of natural science, and, consequently, that the procedure of the one can never be imitated by the other.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

Be a good girl the rest of your days, and want shall be no motive to your going astray; and, believe me, there is more pleasure, even in this world, in an innocent and virtuous life, than in one debauched and vicious.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

The much criticized “unnatural union of sugar and meats” of the ancients still exists today in many popular examples of cookery: lamb and mint sauce, steak and catsup, mutton and currant jelly, pork and apples (in various forms), oyster cocktail, poultry and compôte, goose with apple and raisin dressing, venison and Cumberland sauce, mince pie, plum pudding—typical survivals of ancient traditions.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

More than I may probably ever write again.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

When they came to it Master Pedro ensconced himself inside it, for it was he who had to work the puppets, and a boy, a servant of his, posted himself outside to act as showman and explain the mysteries of the exhibition, having a wand in his hand to point to the figures as they came out.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

There I met Prince Eugène, and the conversation turned on the treasures collected at Malmaison, which were thoroughly appreciated by Prince Gargarine and Colonel Brozin, who had become acquainted with them during Alexander’s several visits to Josephine.
— from Anecdotal Recollections of the Congress of Vienna by La Garde-Chambonas, Auguste Louis Charles, Comte de

I felt that owing to my high standing and responsible position in the "Alley," and having in mind the fame of Binns (of the Republic , the "wireless" hero of Nantucket shoals), it was incumbent on me to ignore my personal effects and comfort in an attempt to save the ladies and their lingerie at any price.
— from A Fantasy of Mediterranean Travel by Samuel G. (Samuel Gamble) Bayne

Ah! who will succeed in sowing a tear in my parched eye?
— from Mademoiselle de Maupin, Volume 1 (of 2) by Théophile Gautier

In this particular summer week, the show had gone from Watertown to Gouverneur, where it violated its tradition and abandoned the evening performance in order that it might promptly entrain for the long haul to Montreal where it was due to play upon the morrow.
— from The Story of the Rome, Watertown, and Ogdensburg Railroad by Edward Hungerford

He does well to have humour, for humour makes men brothers, and is perhaps more influential in an essay than in most places else.
— from Views and Reviews: Essays in appreciation: Literature by William Ernest Henley

What balance of forces is necessary to its most perfect equilibrium may arouse dissension when George III forgets the result of half a century's evolution.
— from Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham by Harold Joseph Laski

It is from thence has successively sprung his notions of SPIRITUALITY, IMMATERIALITY, IMMORTALITY; in short, all those vague unmeaning words he has invented by degrees, in order to subtilize and designate the attributes of the unknown power, which he believes he contains within himself; which he conjectures to be the concealed principle of all his visible actions when man once imbibes an idea that he cannot comprehend, he meditates upon it until he has given it a complete personification: Thus he saw, or fancied he saw, the igneous matter pervade every thing; he conjectured that it was the only principle of life and activity; he proceeded to embody it; he gave it his own form; called it JUPITER, and ended by worshipping this image of his own creation, as the power from whom he derived every good he experienced, every evil he sustained.
— from The System of Nature, or, the Laws of the Moral and Physical World. Volume 1 by Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'

But their language was very different from the other parts of Bambarra: and I was informed that in my progress eastward, the Bambarra tongue was but little understood, and that when I reached Jenne, I should find that the majority of the inhabitants spoke a different language, called Jenne Kummo by the Negroes; and Kalam Soudan by the Moors.
— from Life and Travels of Mungo Park by Mungo Park