Let us never be robbed of our faithful preachers for the sake of our ingratitude, but rather look upon the glory of Thy holy name, yea, behold the Kingdom of Thine Anointed, that it may prevail among us to the end of the world.
— from Morning and Evening Prayers for All Days of the Week Together With Confessional, Communion, and Other Prayers and Hymns for Mornings and Evenings, and Other Occasions by Johann Habermann

Nor is the likeness to the angels promised to us as regards the administering to lower creatures, for this is competent to us not by reason of our natural order, as it is to the angels, but by reason of our seeing God.
— from Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

Finding written pleas unanswered, an appeal has been lodged with United Nations by representatives of the International Bahá’í Community at Geneva.
— from Messages to the Bahá'í World: 1950–1957 by Effendi Shoghi

SEE Brooks, Walter R. RÖSELER, ROBERT O. Altes und neues, by Robert O. Röseler & Adelaide Ber.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1962 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

Not considering, that all this is only a pleasing sort of an Amusement, a Fool's Paradise, and grounded upon no better Reason or Foundation, than the Man that was distracted had to fancy himself an Emperor, and all that came about him his Subjects.
— from The Improvement of Human Reason Exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan by Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Malik Ibn Tufayl

There must have been, as I tried to explain before, a period for the Aryan languages, during which they stood on a level with Chinese, using nothing but roots, or radical words, without having reduced any of them to a purely formal character, without having gone through the process of changing what Chinese grammarians call full words into empty words.
— from Chips from a German Workshop, Volume 4 Essays Chiefly on the Science of Language by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller

—One half cup uncooked natural brown rice, one and one half cups boiling water, one and one half cups cooked new peas, one tablespoonful vegetable butter, two teaspoonfuls flour, salt.
— from The Food Question: Health and Economy by Various

Indeed, on land they could go only in wagons, in litters, on horseback, or on foot; and on the water they used nothing but rowboats or sailboats, because no one had yet imagined that one could use steam or electricity.
— from The Story of the Thirteen Colonies by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

Neither the political nor the military nor the ecclesiastical ideals of the early middle ages were based upon nationality, but rather on that ecumenical community of tradition which still made the rule of Rome, whether in Church or State, a living reality.
— from The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) by T. F. (Thomas Frederick) Tout

The Caribbean Sea, which had, until now, been ruffled only by the regular sweep of the “trades,” was badly tossed by a strong wind, so that the embarkation in the ship’s boat was to me unpleasantly exciting.
— from Gardens of the Caribbees, v. 2/2 Sketches of a Cruise to the West Indies and the Spanish Main by Ida May Hill Starr