The warlike states of antiquity, Greece, Macedonia, and Rome, educated a race of soldiers; exercised their bodies, disciplined their courage, multiplied their forces by regular evolutions, and converted the iron, which they possessed, into strong and serviceable weapons.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

From Laodicea to the Thracian Bosphorus, or arm of St. George, the conquests and reign of Soliman extended thirty days' journey in length, and in breadth about ten or fifteen, between the rocks of Lycia and the Black Sea.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Deus ex machina —A mechanical instead of a rational or spiritual explanation ( lit.
— 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.

And still there arises another question: Are friends to be interpreted as real or seeming; enemies as real or seeming?
— from The Republic by Plato

But the enemy still holds the river from Vicksburg to Baton Rouge, navigating it with his boats, and the possession of it enables him to connect his communications and routes of supply, east and west.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

A. Accused, to what he is entitled Act passed in the reign of Henry VI., anno 1425 " " " it was never enforced Actual Past Master, term defined Adjournment, a term not recognized in Masonry " motion for, cannot be entertained Affiliated Masons only, can visit lodges Affiliation, what it is " mode of " requires unanimity " Master Masons only entitled to it " rejected application for, may be renewed in other lodges " may be made with more than one lodge Age, qualifications of candidates as to Appeal from Grand Master not permitted " not to be entertained in a lodge " cannot be taken from the chair " doctrine of, discussed " from the Master, must be to the Grand Lodge " every Mason has a right to one, to the Grand Lodge " pending one, the sentence is in abeyance Apprentices, rights of (see Entered Apprentice ) Arrears, non-payment of " to lodges, history of their origin " do not accrue during suspension Assembly, general-one held in 287 by St. Alban " " " in 926 at York " " governed the craft for nearly 800 years
— from The Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Landmarks of Freemasonry by Albert Gallatin Mackey

Hannah most politely begged us to take seats by the fire, and warm and rest ourselves; she even knelt down and assisted in rubbing our half-frozen hands; but she never once made mention of the hot soup, or of the tea, which was drawing in a tin teapot upon the hearth-stone, or of a glass of whiskey, which would have been thankfully accepted by our male pilgrims.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

To us then, the woman question is only one phase of the general social question that at present occupies all intelligent minds; its final solution can only be attained by removing social extremes and the evils which are a result of such extremes.
— from Woman and Socialism by August Bebel

I do not wonder that such a revelation should need miracles; that any should be sufficient, is the greatest wonder of all; if indeed we except two;—the first, that Supreme Wisdom should have constructed such a curious revelation, in which he has revealed alternately, to different people, truth and falsehood, and has established each on the very same evidence; and the second (almost as great), that any rational creature should be got to receive such a revelation on such evidence as equally applies to which he says it does not prove, and to points which he says it does; these points, however, being, it appears, totally different in different men!
— from The Eclipse of Faith; Or, A Visit to a Religious Sceptic by Henry Rogers

A disease is, in a certain sense, an organic dissociation; it is a rebellion of some element or organ of the living body which breaks the vital synergy and seeks an end distinct from that which the other elements co-ordinated with it seek.
— from Tragic Sense Of Life by Miguel de Unamuno

A ripple of subdued exclamations ran through our people, and in turn the little natives moved their lips, turned their heads to one another and seemed to be commenting among themselves.
— from The Test Colony by Winston K. Marks

Make 4 rows of doubles around the lower edge, then a row of stars entirely around the hood, widening by putting an extra star at each corner of front to prevent drawing.
— from Handbook of Wool Knitting and Crochet by Anonymous

I will beat out a bit of the metal into a ring, one small enough and light enough for you to wear.'
— from Mehalah: A Story of the Salt Marshes by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

During several years he led the perilous and agitated life of a conspirator, passed and repassed on secret errands between England and France, changed his lodgings in London often, and was known at different coffeehouses by different names.
— from The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

Nature then being always Nature, always invariable in her operations and productions; there is no false conclusion, nor straining inferences, in avering, that the art of dancing could not but be a great gainer by a revival of the taste of the antients for the pantomime branch; which, upon the theatre, converted a transient flashy amusement of the eye, into a rational or sensible entertainment, and made of dancers, who are otherwise, a mere mechanical 268 png 260 composition of feet, legs, and arms, without spirit or meaning, artists formed to paint with the most pathetic expression, the most striking situations of human nature: I am not afraid of using here the term of the most pathetic expression, injuriously to the great power of theatrical declamation; because the great effect and charm of the moment is, evidently, the more likely to be produced by attitudes or gestures alone, unseconded by the voice; for that the pleasure of the spectator will have been the greater for the quickness of his apprehension not having needed that help to understand the meaning of them.
— from A Treatise on the Art of Dancing by Giovanni-Andrea Gallini

Our Engraving represents the Upper, or principal walk, where are one of the assembly rooms, the post-office, Tunbridge-ware, milliners, and other shops, with a row of spreading elms on the opposite side.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 383, August 1, 1829 by Various