The Mice saw that matters were bad, and said: "Mice, let us not come down from the ceiling!
— from Fables for Children, Stories for Children, Natural Science Stories, Popular Education, Decembrists, Moral Tales by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

It was an attractive well with a house built around about it, and the neighbors came to me to say that I must under no circumstances drink from it.
— from And Judas Iscariot Together with other evangelistic addresses by J. Wilbur (John Wilbur) Chapman

Applicants for land under systems named above, must be over eighteen years of age, must be citizens by birth or naturalization or have received letters of denization or special rights of citizenship, be under no civil disability for any offense, nor delinquent in the payment of taxes.
— from The Hawaiian Islands Their Resources, Agricultural, Commercial and Financial by Hawaii. Department of Foreign Affairs

Any person who is over eighteen years of age, who is a citizen by birth or naturalization of the Republic of Hawaii or who has received letters of denization of special rights of citizenship, who is under no civil disability for any offense, who is not delinquent in the payment of taxes, and who does not own any agricultural or pastoral land in the Hawaiian Islands, may apply for Right of Purchase Lease, the limit of areas which may be acquired being: Normalize hyphenation of first-class, second-class 100 acres first-class agricultural land; 200 acres second-class agricultural land; 2 acres wet (rice or taro) land; 600 acres first-class pastoral land; 1200 acres second-class pastoral land; 400 acres mixed agricultural and pastoral land.
— from The Hawaiian Islands Their Resources, Agricultural, Commercial and Financial by Hawaii. Department of Foreign Affairs

We, on the other hand, impose likin all along the line upon native commodities destined for foreign market in addition to export duty.
— from The Fight for the Republic in China by B. L. (Bertram Lenox) Putnam Weale

Several peripheral pathways for afferent impulses may be joined to an efferent pathway so as to complete reflex arcs and the efferent cell be under the controlling influence of some upper neuron coming down from the central axis with the power either to permit or to inhibit the reflex acts which would otherwise take place as a result of peripheral stimuli.
— from Technic and Practice of Chiropractic by Joy Maxwell Loban

Configunt parmam, tinnit hastilibus umbo, Æratæ sonitant galeæ: sed nec pote quisquam Undique nitendo corpus discerpere ferro.
— from History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Vol. I by John Colin Dunlop

oculis immissa Leonum Pupillas interfodiunt acremque dolorem [254] Præbent, ut nequeant contra durare feroces."
— from Zoological Mythology; or, The Legends of Animals, Volume 2 (of 2) by Angelo De Gubernatis

Again, the proteids of the milk and mineral matter are practically digested by the action of the lactic organisms, and new milk undergoes no change during fermentation in the dough.
— from Book of American Baking A Practical Guide Covering Various Branches of the Baking Industry, Including Cakes, Buns, and Pastry, Bread Making, Pie Baking, Etc. by Various