il nr̃o compag o p̃ tanto bere et mangiare diuento briaco Vzano ꝓ lume goma de arbore q̃ la quiamão anime voltata in foglie de palma o de figaro el re ne fece ſegno q e L voleua andare adormire
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

For with what right could we bring into unbounded respect as a universal precept for every rational nature that which perhaps holds only under the contingent conditions of humanity?
— from Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals by Immanuel Kant

By this designation we are also at once reminded that moral principles are not based on properties of human nature, but must subsist a priori of themselves, while from such principles practical rules must be capable of being deduced for every rational nature, and accordingly for that of man.
— from Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals by Immanuel Kant

wherefore, why Pyrchwyn, n. crest of a helmet Pyrgwyn, n. crest of a plume Pyrdwyo, v. to point forward Pys, n. pease, pulse Pysen, n. a single pea, a pea Pysg, n. a fish Pysgodfa, n. a fishery Pysgodlyn, n. a fishpond Pysgodwr, n. a fisherman Pysgodyn, n. a single fish Pysgol, a. piscatory, of fish Pysgota, v. to fish, to angle Pysgydd, n. an ichthyologist Pysgyddiaeth, n. ichthyology Pystylad, n. restless motion Pystyled, v. to be agog; to caper Pystylwyn, n. a saddle crupper Pyth, n. a period; a world: adv. ever, never Pythefnos, n. a fortnight Pythol, a. ever, eternal Python, n. system of the world Pythori, v. to be anxious Pyw, n. a member, a limb: a. in order; complete Rha, n. what forces; ertness; Rhaol, n. a forcing; impulse Rhab, n. force; control Rhabu, v. to control, to check Rhac, n. what is opposite; a wrest; a spine; prep.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

Were this world an endless plain, and by sailing eastward we could for ever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any Cyclades or Islands of King Solomon, then there were promise in the voyage.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Happy are those men who, to enjoy life to the fullest extent, require neither hope nor foresight.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

It was consigned to Mr. Abe Slaney, Elriges Farm, East Ruston, Norfolk.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Clearly then we are confronted with a relationship of a different kind from that which we have been discussing; for not only is anything in the nature of stimulation absent, but, and this is a remarkable fact, the other items in the environment which formerly evoked response no longer do so in quite the same way.
— from Territory in Bird Life by Henry Eliot Howard

Economic aid - recipient: $800 million pledged (includes Gaza Strip) (1999) Currency: 1 new Israeli shekel (NIS) = 100 new agorot; 1 Jordanian dinar (JD) = 1,000 fils Exchange rates: new Israeli shekels (NIS) per US$1 - 4.2260 (November 1999), 3.8001 (1998), 3.4494 (1997), 3.1917 (1996), 3.0113 (1995); Jordanian dinars (JD) per US$1 - fixed rate of 0.7090 (from 1996), 0.7005 (1995)
— from The 2000 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

We feel especially responsible now that Tante is away, as she made it a point that we were to look after Juliet while she was gone and see that she was not lonely."
— from The Camp Fire Girls by the Blue Lagoon by Margaret Vandercook

solute for obtaining the President's proclamation, conditional for the purpose of eluding performance; absolute for drawing our property within his clutches, conditional for retaining it, to fill his coffers and fatten his minions; in fine, sir, the letter was one thing, or another thing, or nothing at all, as artifice might suggest or future events render necessary.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 4 (of 16) by United States. Congress

Coming on our river again, which has serpentined along, loitering to water those fruitful plains of “old Lorraine,” we find her stream shrunk within its pebbly bed; for the sun has drunk from earth her moisture, and the fire element rules now for the good of man, where the water, moistening the earth, had produced the germ within her bosom.
— from The Life of the Moselle From its source in the Vosges Mountains to its junction with the Rhine at Coblence by Octavius Rooke

Standing not far away in a group were the six Red Cross nurses for whom she felt especially responsible, Nona Davis and Mildred Thornton, the two girls who were her intimate and devoted friends and who had made exceptional sacrifices to remain in Europe now that the war was ended.
— from The Red Cross Girls with Pershing to Victory by Margaret Vandercook