And therefore it was that that fine philosopher put out his own eyes, to free the soul from being diverted by them, and that he might philosophize at greater liberty; but, by the same rule, he should have dammed up his ears, that Theophrastus says are the most dangerous instruments about us for receiving violent impressions to alter and disturb us; and, finally, should have deprived himself of all his other senses, that is to say, of his life and being; for they have all the power to command our soul and reason: Fit etiam sope specie qudam, sope vocum gravitate et cantibus, ut pettantur animi vehementius; sope etiam cura et timor, “For it often falls out that the minds are more vehemently struck by some sight, by the quality and sound of the voice, or by singing; and ofttimes also by grief and fear.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

It has been proved by experiment that a very sensitive ear can distinguish between sounds varying in pitch by only 1 ⁄ 64 th of a semitone, or but half the range of any one Corti fibre.
— from How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Archibald Williams

As to the detail which remains to be worked out upon this plateau, it is so enormous that only a large expedition, with a very special equipment, could hope to cope with it.
— from The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

You and I both came back to this house from the Continent with our affairs very seriously embarrassed—" "Cut it short!
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

The provision is, that the parties at variance shall each choose four judges out of the neutral cantons, who, in case of disagreement, choose an umpire.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

Oculi ut milites in insidiis semper recubant, et subito ad visum sagittas emittunt, &c. 4965 .
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Well, a few blows here and there are the sauce of life, or at least a very slight evil compared with priestly government—prosecution of heretics, plundering of the laity, courts of inquisition, crusades, religious wars, massacres of St. Bartholomew, and the like.
— from Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer

It depended upon the energies of a very small English community, of course, but they kept up a comfortable room, where dancing and singing were entered upon in the evenings; the standards of pastime required by Bicker and Mead, however, were not reached.
— from The Bonadventure: A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday by Edmund Blunden

Strong iron bars firmly secured the only door, and a very slight examination convinced me that my case was utterly hopeless.
— from Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal An Authentic Narrative of the Horrors, Mysteries, and Cruelties of Convent Life by Sarah J. Richardson

I hear a voice shout “ E capace di vincere!
— from An Autobiography by Elizabeth (Elizabeth Southerden Thompson) Butler

Orders were soon flying in every direction, and very soon everything caught the 64 infection of his energy.
— from The Taking of Louisburg, 1745 by Samuel Adams Drake

As a pack of hounds throws itself on an empty skeleton, the swarm of bees, now completely diverted from the Dahlias, cast themselves on the completely empty artefacts and vainly searched every corner of them for honey.
— from Ants and Some Other Insects: An Inquiry Into the Psychic Powers of These Animals by Auguste Forel

He undergoes a very severe examination, called the CHALLENGE , the form of which must have been preserved from Queen Elizabeth’s days, and is the last surviving relic of the old scholastic disputations.
— from The Public School Word-book A conribution to to a historical glossary of words phrases and turns of expression obsolete and in current use peculiar to our great public schools together with some that have been or are modish at the universities by John Stephen Farmer

This implies a very strong expression, consisting, as it does, of a double superlative.
— from Captain Cuellar's Adventures in Connaught & Ulster A.D. 1588. To Which Is Added an Introduction and Complete Translation of Captain Cuellar's Narrative of the Spanish Armada and His Adventures in Ireland by Cuellar, Francisco de, active 16th century

Upon the spindle connecting these two parts of the mechanism was a small wing-piece L, one of the extremities of which rested upon a vertical spindle E connected with an electro-magnet F.
— from Practical Cinematography and Its Applications by Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot