c. These divinities were supposed to be beautiful maidens of fairy-like form, and robed in more or less shadowy garments.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

Makar Semyonich laughed, and replied: “It must have been him in whose bag the knife was found!
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

If the proletariat during its contest with the bourgeoisie is compelled, by the force of circumstances, to organise itself as a class, if, by means of a revolution, it makes itself the ruling class, and, as such, sweeps away by force the old conditions of production, then it will, along with these conditions, have swept away the conditions for the existence of class antagonisms and of classes generally, and will thereby have abolished its own supremacy as a class.
— from The Communist Manifesto by Friedrich Engels

Moreover by now Semyon Ivanovitch was quite quiet and replied in measured terms.
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Crusades, which had facilitated the relations with Eastern countries, developed a taste in the West for their indigenous productions, gave a fresh vigour to this foreign commerce, and rendered it more productive by removing the stumbling blocks which had arrested its progress ( Fig. 191 ).
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

For I've a hundred, old and new, All ready in my haversack.'
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

Ang yútà sa Sibu tugub sa mga miniral, The lands in Cebu are rich in minerals.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

But I could not help feeling rather uneasy as I wondered what sort of a reception I might meet with if I were to come suddenly upon inhabitants.
— from Erewhon; Or, Over the Range by Samuel Butler

The rites performed in India on the completion of a house are represented in modern Europe by the familiar “house-warming.”
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

A similar decomposition of acid solutions of titanic acid is accomplished whenever they are heated, and especially in the presence of sulphuric acid, just as with metastannic acid, which titanic acid resembles in many respects.
— from The Principles of Chemistry, Volume II by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev

To this I would merely add that, even where perceptual continuity in animals reaches its maximum, it is not reflectively grasped as a whole, and the ideal construction of the personal ego is not conceived as antithetical to the impersonal world of objects.
— from Animal Behaviour by C. Lloyd (Conwy Lloyd) Morgan

New circumstances now created a change almost amounting to a revolution in Miss Evans's life.
— from George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals. Vol. 1 (of 3) by George Eliot

his armie to the number of three hundreth sayles purposing for to send them against Rhodes, if mortalitie had not happened in his host, and he afterwarde by the will of our lorde was surprised and taken with death: wherefore he being in the latter ende of his dayes, (as some Turkes and false christian men that were at this siege shewed me) did charge by his testament, or caused to charge his sonne now being great Turke, that after this death hee should make his two first enterprises, the one against Bellegrado in Hungarie, and th
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 05 Central and Southern Europe by Richard Hakluyt

Willcox & Gibbs' single thread machines are run in many instances at 3,500 stitches per minute.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 598, June 18, 1887 by Various

This day is also reckoned in Man according to the Old Style, so that it is our twelfth of November.
— from Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx (Volume 1 of 2) by Rhys, John, Sir

This system of making up a magazine has been very successful; and the circulation, paced by the advertising rates, is making a wonderful record of speed.
— from Whirligigs by O. Henry

“Do you know,” he went on in confidential tones, “that I don’t care a rap if Mr. Shei carries out his scheme as far as the other six are concerned.
— from The Gray Phantom by Herman Landon

I read a regret in Macumer's eyes, and, unknown to him, I cried over it two whole nights.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac