Pronto vendrá el escorbuto.... ¡
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

The body of the Book is made up of mere tradition, and as it were vehement enthusiastic extempore preaching.
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

no es raro que el inmigrante pase todo el resto de su vida en el país adonde
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

—El caucho de Cartagena que se exporta en panes grandes de cincuenta kilogramos; el de las Antillas (que comprende el de la América Central) que se exporta igualmente en panes; el de Guayaquil, que es de tipo poco uniforme y cuyo color varía entre el blanquecino de las clases superiores, y el oscuro pardo de las más impuras.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

I. W. 149 ‘Quid vero ex ea lucri possit acquiri, convenit manifestius explicare, quia nec omnibus id existimo posse esse cognitum; quod maxime heri jam ipse a nobis disseri postulasti’ ; ib.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

Valor, Fortitude, Bravery, Fearlessness, Courage, being the qualities of soul which appeal most easily to juvenile minds, and which can be trained by exercise and example, were, so to speak, the most popular virtues, early emulated among the youth.
— from Bushido, the Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe

768, which represents the arms of James III., Von Eltz, Elector and Archbishop of Treves (1567-1581), in which his personal arms of Eltz ("Per fess gules and argent, in chief a demi-lion issuing or") are quartered with the impersonal arms of his archbishopric, "Argent, a cross gules."
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

[ The road, the country, the old castle of count Julian, and the superstitious belief of the Spaniards of hidden treasures, &c. are described by Pere Labat (Voyages en Espagne et en Italie, tom i. p. 207-217), with his usual pleasantry.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

The letter was brief, but it was pleasant reading, for it told me about the strong interest which the membership took in their new venture, etc., etc.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

So being weaponless he ran to the next room to find a sword, and so from room to room, with King Pelles after him, he in vain ever eagerly casting his eyes round every place to find some weapon.
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

The facts of the story, telling how, after the battle of the Hogue, a simple Croisic sailor saved all that was left of the French fleet by guiding the vessels into the harbour, are given in the Croisic guide-books; and Browning has followed them in everything but the very effective end:— "'Since 'tis ask and have, I may— Since the others go ashore— Come!
— from An Introduction to the Study of Browning by Arthur Symons

I should previously have been one year in a physician’s office as a student, but this regulation was very easily evaded.
— from The Autobiography of a Quack, and The Case of George Dedlow by S. Weir (Silas Weir) Mitchell

And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain Thrilled me—filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before; So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating “‘Tis some visiter entreating entrance at my chamber door— Some late visiter entreating entrance at my chamber door;—
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

From this point of view, even egg à la papier offered by way of food may pass muster as a sort of accessory to the fun.
— from An Inland Voyage by Robert Louis Stevenson

The various monographs on the results of the second expedition are published in two volumes, entitled "Explorations in Turkestan; Expedition of 1904," as Publication No. 73 (1908) of the same institution.
— from A History of Sumer and Akkad An account of the early races of Babylonia from prehistoric times to the foundation of the Babylonian monarchy by L. W. (Leonard William) King

Vespasian Ellis, Esq.
— from Adventures of the Ojibbeway and Ioway Indians in England, France, and Belgium; Vol. 2 (of 2) being Notes of Eight Years' Travels and Residence in Europe with his North American Indian Collection by George Catlin

Table V.—Showing the Ripening Time of Grapes Weeks in Common Storage Very Early Early Midseason Late Very Late Agawam * America * Barry 28 * Beacon 7 * Bell 8 * Berckmans 21 * Black Eagle 18 * Brighton 20 * Brilliant 11 * Brown 6 * Campbell
— from Manual of American Grape-Growing by U. P. Hedrick

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— from The Early Oxford Press A Bibliography of Printing and Publishing at Oxford, '1468'-1640; With Notes, Appendixes and Illustrations by Falconer Madan