Molles Asiatici , so are Turks, Greeks, Spaniards, Italians, even all that latitude; and in those tracts, such as are more fruitful, plentiful, and delicious, as Valence in Spain, Capua in Italy, domicilium luxus
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

To search for, and make a clean dissection of the wounded part of the vessel in such cases, is impossible.
— from Elements of Surgery by Robert Liston

The extent to which the 356 pseudo-membranous deposit occurs is extremely various; in some cases it is confined to the larynx, or to the upper part of it; in others it lines the whole of the windpipe, and often is prolonged, either in flakes or tubes, into the ramifications of the bronchi.
— from Elements of Surgery by Robert Liston

Steuart knew, of course, very well that products took on the form of commodities and commodities, the form of money in pre-capitalistic epochs as well; but he proves conclusively that it is only in the capitalistic period of production that the commodity becomes the elementary and funda Pg 67 mental form of wealth, and alienation [of commodities], the ruling form of acquisition and that consequently labor creating exchange value is specifically capitalistic in its character.
— from A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx

[5] “While this was going on a staff-officer ... of General Beauregard’s headquarters ... came up to General Bragg and said, ‘The General directs that the pursuit be stopped; the victory is sufficiently complete; it is needless to expose our men to the fire of the gun-boats.’
— from The Campaign of Königgrätz A Study of the Austro-Prussian Conflict in the Light of the American Civil War by Arthur L. (Arthur Lockwood) Wagner

Your voice is so charming, it is a pity to strain it.
— from A Fool's Paradise: An Original Play in Three Acts by Sydney Grundy

The character of the swelling varies; in some cases it is not large but rather dense and lacking in evidence of heat and hyperesthesia; in other cases there is considerable swelling, which is hot and doughy, somewhat painful to the touch but not necessarily productive of much lameness.
— from Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by John Victor Lacroix

When the verse is so constructed, it is said to be piano , the rhyme being what in English we call double.
— from Renaissance in Italy, Volume 4 (of 7) Italian Literature, Part 1 by John Addington Symonds