But immediately, the people of Rome being extremely clamorous for his return, on account of a disaster at Fidenae 342 , where upwards of twenty thousand persons had been killed by the fall of the amphitheatre, during a public spectacle of gladiators, he crossed over again to the continent, and gave all people free access to him; so much the more, because, at his departure from the city, he had caused it to be proclaimed that no one should address him, and had declined admitting any persons to his presence, on the journey.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

A double and parallel series of facts seems to throw much light on the sterility of species, when first crossed, and of their hybrid offspring.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

relieve a wretched parent's pain, And give Chryseis to these arms again; If mercy fail, yet let my presents move, And dread avenging Phoebus, son of Jove.
— from The Iliad by Homer

Along with the view of the world as pervaded by spiritual forces, savage man has a different, and probably still older, conception in which we may detect a germ of the modern notion of natural law or the view of nature as a series of events occurring in an invariable order without the intervention of personal agency.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

1. Observe the force of the imperfect here, used to prepare , were in the habit of preparing ; so amābant denotes a past situation of affairs.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

1. Observe the force of the imperfect here, used to prepare , were in the habit of preparing ; so amâbant denotes a past situation of affairs.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

"It was hard work standing about and trying to sell things all day, and persuading stingy old gentlemen to put into raffles for talking dolls," said Miss Baynham.
— from All along the River: A Novel by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

relieve a wretched parent’s pain, And give Chryses to these arms again; If mercy fail, yet let my present move, And dread avenging Phœbus, son of Jove.
— from Lives of the English Poets : Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope by Samuel Johnson

OUTLINES Leather and paper are dampened and pasted smoothly on glass.
— from Batik and Other Pattern Dyeing by Ida Strawn Baker

Atheism is a crisis in a disease, a passing swoon over which the vital forces of nature triumph.
— from The Heavenly Father: Lectures on Modern Atheism by Ernest Naville

They were passing along that part which was nearest the open ground when they heard the tramp of a horse’s hoofs galloping at fall speed, and directly afterwards Paul shouting out to Harry— “Where’s our father?”
— from The Young Berringtons: The Boy Explorers by William Henry Giles Kingston

In all these educational efforts, I have been led by a deep and painful sense of the depressed and suffering condition of large portions of our sex, and to an extent little realized by women in easy and prosperous circumstances.
— from Woman's Profession as Mother and Educator, with Views in Opposition to Woman Suffrage by Catharine Esther Beecher

In January of 1853, Morton demonstrated at the infirmary in Washington, before a congressional committee and others, the anesthetic effect of ether, which he continued through a dangerous and protracted surgical operation.
— from The Evil Eye, Thanatology, and Other Essays by Roswell Park