The number of such as are addressed to different correspondents is considerable, but
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

Far as an able arm the disk can send, [pg 417]
— from The Iliad by Homer

And at Athens a certain person gave an entertainment to the king's ambassadors, and at their desire contrived to get the philosophers there too, and as they were all talking together and comparing ideas, and Zeno alone was silent, the strangers greeted him and pledged him, and said, "What are we to tell the king about you, Zeno?"
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

taxeth all melancholy persons of this fault: [2872] 'Tis proper to them, if things fall not out to their mind, and that they have not present ease, to seek another and another; (as they do commonly that have sore eyes) twenty one after another, and they still promise all to cure them, try a thousand remedies; and by this means they increase their malady, make it most dangerous and difficult to be cured.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

When he went through the Canal bridge, the evening glowed in its last deep colours, the sky was dark blue, the stars glittered from afar, very remote and approaching above the darkening cluster of the farm, above the paths of crystal along the edge of the heavens.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

The Mahajans never bring an action against their debtors; consequently the falling into arrears appears to them, as it were, a present loss.
— from Nil Darpan; or, The Indigo Planting Mirror, A Drama. Translated from the Bengali by a Native. by Dinabandhu Mitra

I say darkly hinted at, for you must bear in mind that Don Fum never visited this World within a World; that his wonderful wisdom enabled him to reason it all out without seeing it, just as the great naturalists of our day, upon finding a single tooth belonging to some gigantic creature which lived thousands of years ago, are able to draw complete pictures of him.
— from Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood

Some plants are adapted to humid sections, while others are admirably adjusted to desert conditions.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

Iowa is a prohibition State and almost any law on earth as against anything to drink, can be carried there.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 08 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Interviews by Robert Green Ingersoll

Early in 1836 the heroic defense of the [Pg 358] Alamo against several thousand Mexicans by less than two hundred Americans, and among them Davy Crockett, Van Buren's biographer, and the butchery of all but three of the Americans, had consecrated the old building, still proudly preserved by the stirring but now peaceful and pleasing city of San Antonio, and had roused in Texas a fierce and resolute hatred of Mexico.
— from Martin Van Buren by Edward Morse Shepard

Again and again that dreadful cry resounded, in a woman's piercing treble.
— from The Golden Calf by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

There was a small chest of drawers battered and almost paintless but with two long drawers and two small ones and a white cover on which stood a little looking glass framed in polished pine ... and a small yellow wardrobe with a deep drawer under the hanging part and a little drawer in the rickety little washstand and another above the dusty cupboard of the little mahogany sideboard.
— from The Tunnel: Pilgrimage, Volume 4 by Dorothy M. (Dorothy Miller) Richardson

The indignation caused by the base treatment of Mrs. Jordan and Sheridan manifested itself in several publications of the day, and many facts were elicited relative to these two unfortunate individuals; indeed, there was scarcely a subject in the realm, at all acquainted with their shameful desertion, who did not indulge in some bold expression of disgust and abhorrence at the disgraceful conduct of certain illustrious individuals, as being the causes of their multiplied sorrows and sufferings.
— from Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume 1 (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte by Hamilton, Anne, Lady

Thus the man who so degrades his nature as to make the pleasures of eating and drinking the great pursuit of life, while his desires never abate, finds his zest for such enjoyments continually decreasing, and a perpetual need for new devices to stimulate appetite and awaken the dormant capacities.
— from Common Sense Applied to Religion; Or, The Bible and the People by Catharine Esther Beecher

In this broad sense, it may with truth be said, that all living animals, and all those dead creations which geology reveals, are bound together by an all-pervading unity of organization, of the same character, though not equal in degree, to that which enables us to discern one and the same plan amidst the twenty different segments of a lobster's body.
— from Lectures and Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley

With the aid of a telescope the French fishing-boats were plainly seen at anchor; and the different colors of the land upon the heights, together with the buildings, were perfectly discernible.
— from Science for the School and Family, Part I. Natural Philosophy by Worthington Hooker

We sat under shady trees, and the sunlit plains stretched away and away to distant calm mountains.
— from The Killer by Stewart Edward White