(March 3, 1846.) (2) Memoria concernente la interpretazione dell’ uso di un forcipe Ercolanese di bronzo con le estremità delle branche a semi-cucchiai dentellati: la illustrazione di due cannelli di bronzo anche trovati in Ercolano, de’ quali servivansi gli antichi per cavar l’acqua dall’ addomine degl’ idropici: l’indicamento di tre cannelli Pompejani di bronzo.
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

The wind had changed, the air was frosty, keen, and biting, and Moodie's paddle came up from every dip into the water loaded with ice.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

I cannot close this foreword without acknowledging my indebtedness to the Pan-American Union for exact data and information; to the New York Public Library and the Hispanic Society of America for the facilities afforded in the copying of excerpts; to Las Novedades for permission to reprint certain text matter; to Dr. Homero Serís for his assistance in collecting Spanish Americanisms; and, last but certainly not least, to the Spanish Department of D. C. Heath & Co., the publishers, for valuable suggestions and assistance in planning the book and in the preparation of the manuscript.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

It is thus not "militarism" in the accepted sense that has rendered Germany a menace to the world, but the Machiavellian plan of using for export doctrines sternly repressed within her own borders.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

unrihtdǣd f. evil doing .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

Y a propósito de la banana, ¿no te has percatado de que esa fruta es un factor eficaz de panamericanismo?
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

It was the 25th of October, and the time for me to carry out my design or to give it up for ever drew near.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

n'y a pas non plus dégradation de la littérature mais déplacement… Par exemple un concert live de jazz ,écouté dans les arènes de Cimiez, n'est plus le même une fois enregistré, donc compressé, puis écouté dans une voiture qui file sur l'autoroute.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Je prévois aussi une forte expansion de l'internet pour l'enseignement et la recherche.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Afiong then walked to the house, and her father called all the young girls who belonged to Afiong's company to come and dance, and the feasting and dancing was kept up for eight days and nights.
— from Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria, West Africa by Elphinstone Dayrell

Bold and strong men, who have scarcely any power of imagination, and those who require some other restraint than mere law, regard these fears as chimerical, and are undeterred from evil doing.
— from Essays and Dialogues by Giacomo Leopardi

The flowers were dead, the birds were flown or mute, and brave, green leaves were stamped under foot; everywhere decay, decay.
— from Ravenshoe by Henry Kingsley

The guttural voice of an erect old blue-and-scarlet German colonel fell on my ears like a bad dream, as he brought his big prancing grey horse alongside our driver and demanded roughly what we were doing there, while in the same bad dream, as I sat there in my corner of the voiture, I watched the expressions written all over those hundreds of fierce, fair, arrogant faces, staring at us from every direction.
— from A Woman's Experiences in the Great War by Louise Mack

Literary fragments float up to us from earlier days, but now, for the first time, we have whole books about whose date and authorship we are reasonably certain.
— from The Right and Wrong Uses of the Bible by Richard Heber Newton

Lead me to it, is his prayer, uttered from every department of his soul.
— from Bible Emblems by Edward Eli Seelye

Few of us, from Eve downwards, have ever been able to withstand that temptation, and, as his dormitory parties had been perforce discontinued, Linklater conceived the happy notion of giving a "small and early" in his own study.
— from Pip : A Romance of Youth by Ian Hay

We clattered along past rows and rows of red mud cottages, dogs flying out at us from every door, and giving the two mids.
— from On Foreign Service; Or, The Santa Cruz Revolution by T. T. (Thomas Tendron) Jeans

"Buck up, Farnworth!" exclaimed Dick.
— from The Fight for Constantinople: A Story of the Gallipoli Peninsula by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

He has to cook and pack and do the work of three men; he has to make long, exhausting marches; he is exposed to hunger, cold, and fatigue; he may be under fire every day; and he knows that if he falls into the hands of the Tibetans, like the unfortunate servants of Captain Parr at Gyantse, he will be brutally murdered and cut up into mincemeat.
— from The Unveiling of Lhasa by Edmund Candler