There is an unfortunate doubt in this passage (1) about the meaning of the word (Greek), which is translated either 'compacted' or 'revolving,' and is equally capable of both explanations.
— from Timaeus by Plato

And this did not happen by means of assistance applied in each particular case (systema assistentiae), but through the unity of the idea of a cause occupied and connected with all substances, in which they necessarily receive, according to the Leibnitzian school, their existence and permanence, consequently also reciprocal correspondence, according to universal laws.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

A burning thirst consumed me, and I emptied the vessel at a draught.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

Employment is Nature's physician, and is essential to human happiness.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Furthermore, temples that are to be built beside [117] rivers, as in Egypt on both sides of the Nile, ought, as it seems, to face the river banks.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

and instantly every one was silent.
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

The prisoner was placed in the dock, and the jury were sworn much as in Europe; almost all our own modes of procedure were reproduced, even to the requiring the prisoner to plead guilty or not guilty.
— from Erewhon; Or, Over the Range by Samuel Butler

For expressions of command, exhortation, entreaty, etc., there is an imperative mood , as in English.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

All rose as I entered; but my poor father, who was always slow in his movements, had the last of me.
— from The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 03 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

They cannot but remain face to face; and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between them.
— from The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And Personal Recollections By Those Who Knew Him by Francis F. (Francis Fisher) Browne

Upon all the fine speeches that he made her she turned an idle ear, or if she replied at all it was but petulantly to interrupt them, to call him a man of great words and small deeds.
— from The Tavern Knight by Rafael Sabatini

Other guns were fired, when I heard, back of where the king and queen and myself were seated, the report of another gun, and I was startled to see the Mouaou villagers, with affrighted looks and shouts of alarm, running away in every direction.
— from The Country of the Dwarfs by Paul B. (Paul Belloni) Du Chaillu

The atmosphere is extremely transparent and colorless; it cannot be seen, therefore, as a dark or colored body can, or as chlorine gas can, or vapor of bromine or iodine.
— from Popular scientific lectures by Ernst Mach

And I do not believe that Hercules, even after the most delightful of his exploits, felt such a pleasant weariness as I experienced every time after a lecture.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Its effects are instant, either taken by the lips or infused into the veins.
— from Leonora D'Orco: A Historical Romance by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

Considering the infinite variety of light, and its easy modification and absorption, we should expect an immense number of spectra.
— from Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work by Henry White Warren

Finally every flier felt that he knew Truk and its environs as he knew his own home town.
— from March Anson and Scoot Bailey of the U.S. Navy by Marshall McClintock

The end justifies the effort, and the few temporary sacrifices and insignificant expenditures which have been made.
— from Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean Post by Thomas Rainey