"And Roo Barry, or Rue Barrée, is to-day an object of adoration to every rapin in the Quarter—" "We are not rapins," corrected Elliott.
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

One is the increasingly reminiscent and borrowed character of culture; the other is the political and rhetorical bent of Roman life.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

Behaviour of Clocks and Measuring-Rods on a Rotating Body of Reference 24.
— from Relativity : the Special and General Theory by Albert Einstein

It is the first towards the West of all the Scythian rivers, and it has become the greatest of all rivers because other rivers flow into it.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

“You've had a rough bit o' road to get over since I saw you—a rough bit o' road.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

They say he has a regular band of robbers here on the high road.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

In this form it is transmitted from generation to generation, becomes an object of sentimental respect, gets itself embodied in definite formulas, is an object not only of respect and reverence but of reflection and speculation as well.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Tractum is a piece of pastry, a round bread or roll in this case, stale, best suited for this purpose.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

Of all unreasonable creatures, there is but one unreasonable soul; and of all that are reasonable, but one reasonable soul, divided betwixt them all.
— from Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

The train bearing down upon him was on a rounding bend of rails, the locomotive not in view, and there was no possible chance of signalling the engineer.
— from Ralph on the Overland Express; Or, The Trials and Triumphs of a Young Engineer by Allen Chapman

During the course of the conspiracy the SA undertook many duties and responsibilities, but one responsibility which remained constant throughout was that of being propagandist of the National Socialist ideology.
— from Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremburg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946, Volume 4 by Various

Every one will regret that illness has obliged Vice Admiral Carden to relinquish the chief command, but this is now in the very capable hands of Vice Admiral Robeck. BRITISH OFFICIAL REPORT.
— from New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 2, May, 1915 April-September, 1915 by Various

Every murder perpetrated by poison, lying in wait, or any other kind of willful, deliberate, malicious, and premeditated killing; or committed in the perpetration of, or attempt to perpetrate, any arson, rape, burglary, or robbery; or perpetrated from a premeditated design unlawfully and maliciously to effect the death of any human being other than him who is killed, is murder in the first degree.
— from The Men on Deck: Master, Mates and Crew, Their Duties and Responsibilities by Felix Riesenberg

Aye, they laid Their mark on all of us, till back we fled With bleeding crowns, and some with blinded eyes, Up a rough bank of rock.
— from The Iphigenia in Tauris of Euripides by Euripides

On the slopes of the Himalayas you see Geoffrey converted; he becomes a Cheela, and returns by overland route.
— from Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, January 30, 1892 by Various

At Speerenberg, about twenty miles to the south of Berlin, the earth-borer has pierced through an enormous deposit of rock-salt, more than two thousand feet thick, and at Segeberg, in the province of Sleswig-Holstein, a shaft is now being sunk into a rich bed of rock-salt, recently discovered.
— from The Subterranean World by G. (Georg) Hartwig

And in autumn, when the huckleberries are ripe, bands of robins and grosbeaks come to feast, forming altogether delightful little byworlds for the naturalist.
— from The Mountains of California by John Muir

His immediate accomplices also remain beyond our reach at present.
— from Oneness by James H. Schmitz