And further, in decomposing the colour rays that come to the eye and painting in pure colour, while great addition was made to the power of expressing light, yet by destroying the definitions and enveloping everything in a scintillating atmosphere, the power to design in a large manner was lost with the wealth of significance that the music of line can convey.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

Alex. praesertim ineunte periculo, ubi res prope adsunt terribiles.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The laterals are produced in pairs and are opposite, the pairs being borne in whorls around the stem.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

The winter sun, making its way through the snow and the frozen tracery on the window-panes, gleamed on the samovar, and plunged its pure rays in the tea-basin.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The Israelites grew so indolent, and unready of taking pains, that misfortunes came heavier upon them, which also proceeded in part from their contempt of the Divine worship; for when they had once fallen off from the regularity of their political government, they indulged themselves further in living according to their own pleasure, and according to their own will, till they were full of the evil doings that were common among the Canaanites.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

And it seemed strange to him, at moments, to think that he had written his own sentence of death with pen and paper: “I punish myself,” and the paper was lying there in his pocket, ready; the pistol was loaded; he had already resolved how, next morning, he would meet the first warm ray of “golden-haired Phœbus.”
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Hast thou not already a Bible 15 to write and publish in print that is eternal, namely, a Life to lead?
— 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.

The difference is only that the more emphatic parts of the melody survive clearly to the end, while the detail, which if perceived might now clash, is largely lost, and out of the preceding parts perhaps nothing but a certain swing and potency is present at the close.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

The guests, after dining at the chateau, set out in the cool of the day for Epourville, whither they gave him and Madame St. Aubert a pressing invitation, prompted rather by the vanity of displaying their splendour, than by a wish to make their friends happy.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

Now if, by that form of speech in which a part is put for the whole, we take Idumea as put for the nations, we may understand of Christ what he says among other things, "But upon Mount Sion shall be safety, and there shall be a Holy One."
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

His style, vigorous, terse, and thoughtful, united to a nice knowledge of the human mind, makes every character a profoundly interesting psychological study.-- Chicago Inter-Ocean.
— from The Crimson Sign A Narrative of the Adventures of Mr. Gervase Orme, Sometime Lieutenant in Mountjoy's Regiment of Foot by S. R. (Samuel Robert) Keightley

SCENE— A Portico in Portman Square.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, July 30, 1892 by Various

junior, establishes schools, i. xxix ; publishes Theodosian code, ib. Therapia, supposed to be visited by Medea, i. 10 ; bishop of Derkon hanged there, 65 Thyatira, fourth church of the Apocalypse, ii. 41 ; Lydia, a woman of, sells purple, ib.; meets St. Paul at Philippi, ib.; people led astray by Jesabel, ib.; now called Ak Hissar, 42 Tombstones, shape of, and inscriptions on, i. 13 Toondja, ii.
— from Constantinople and the Scenery of the Seven Churches of Asia Minor Series One and Series Two in one Volume by R. (Robert) Walsh

he demanded of Christopher, and pronounced it perfectly.
— from Lentala of the South Seas: The Romantic Tale of a Lost Colony by W. C. Morrow

De Musset left college at the age of sixteen, having taken a prize in philosophy for a Latin metaphysical essay.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, October, 1877. Vol XX - No. 118 by Various

Creator, or “Supreme Being,” in Mexico, 8 ; title “wheel of the winds,” 11 ; Polaris, 22 ; worshipped by ancient Americans, 32 , 36 ; earliest form of; feathered serpent, image of, 70 ; the four elements regarded as attributes of, 99 ; belief in, represented by mushroom-shaped stone figure, 115 ; Inca knowledge of, 135 , 149 ; Quechua title for; Mexican title for, 159 ; in Peru, identified with Mexican “Lord who guides,” or Polaris; and associated with star and cross, 161 ; image of at Cuzco, 162 ; worship of in Texcoco, 163 ; in Peru, 164 ; in Tiahuanaco, 168 ; native title, “Heart of Heaven” , 189 ; in Mexico represented by rebus of the feathered serpent, 209 ; Nahuatl title, expressed by an eye and pyramid in picture-writing, 269 ; Divine Twain, Father and Mother of all, in Mexico, Quetzalcoatl, 270 ; in China, 302 ; Akkadian name for symbol, an eight-pointed star, 302 , 304 ; among the Hindu, 312 ; Brahmanistic conception of, 314 ; in Persia, 325 ; in Babylonia, 329 , 330 ; among the Hebrews=Yahwe lord of Heaven, 304 , 351 , 352 ; in ancient Egypt, 397 , 403 , 412 , 444 ; in Plato's Timæus, 449 ; the Norse, Thor, 473 ; the source of the four elements, 510 ; comparison of names in Old and New World, 532 ; summary, 548 .
— from The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations A Comparative Research Based on a Study of the Ancient Mexican Religious, Sociological, and Calendrical Systems by Zelia Nuttall

The two discussions are parallel in part, the former being based upon the latter.
— from Social Value: A Study in Economic Theory, Critical and Constructive by Benjamin M. (Benjamin McAlester) Anderson

Imports - commodities: machinery and transportation equipment, petroleum products, motor vehicles, iron and steel, resins and plastics Imports - partners: India 14.1%, UAE 11.5%, China 10%, Saudi Arabia 8%, South Africa 5.7%, Japan 5.1% (2008)
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Attention should be called to the analogous proposition in plane geometry relating to the area of the parallelogram and rectangle, and to the fact that if we cut through the solid figure by a plane parallel to one of the lateral edges, the resulting figure will be that of the proposition mentioned.
— from The Teaching of Geometry by David Eugene Smith

Of course we haven't a proper investigating plant, but once in a while, when a family drops right into our arms, we do like to put the business through.
— from Dear Enemy by Jean Webster