The ancient Romans called it Lapis Atracius , from Atrax, a town in Thessaly, in the vicinity of which it was found.
— from Roman Mosaics; Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood by Hugh Macmillan
The characteristics of a race colour its literature, and the more homely the literature the clearer the colouring.
— from The Strand Magazine, Vol. 27, February 1904, No. 159. by Various
Kindliness in a king is a dangerous virtue, and a royal conscience is like a boil on the elbow, always in the way.
— from The Touchstone of Fortune Being the Memoir of Baron Clyde, Who Lived, Thrived, and Fell in the Doleful Reign of the So-called Merry Monarch, Charles II by Charles Major
However, Robinson, who was determined not to make George lose any more time, took the lead and giving himself the benefit of a run, cleared it like a buck.
— from It Is Never Too Late to Mend by Charles Reade
A race course is like a household, everything is known, absolutely everything.
— from Thoroughbreds by William Alexander Fraser
Here small ruts in the surface of the ground are rapidly converted into large arroyos.
— from A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228 by Victor Mindeleff
When the Hessian troops were quartered in Atholl, the commanding officers, who were accomplished gentlemen, found a ready communication in Latin at every inn.
— from Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume III. by Thomson, A. T., Mrs.
The expansible fluid, on the other hand, fills the wide parts of the cavities, and in deep and round cavities it lies above the dense fluid.
— from Letters on Natural Magic; Addressed to Sir Walter Scott, Bart. by David Brewster
In being heated a rod contracts in length, and is then liable to fracture by the shrinkage, but if of sufficient size these results are not likely to occur.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, August, 1880 by Various
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