The legislator is to consider all these things and to bid the citizens, as far as possible, not to lose sight of numerical order; for no single instrument of youthful education has such mighty power, both as regards domestic economy and politics, and in the arts, as the study of arithmetic.
— from Laws by Plato

the fiery tide Has burst its bounds, and rolls down Etna's side.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

"She did slip up, as you say," remarked the widow, "and she's been a raging devil ever since."
— from Ann Boyd: A Novel by Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben

It is in one piece, blackened and richly decorated, embossed and inlaid with gold.
— from Spanish Arms and Armour Being a Historical and Descriptive Account of the Royal Armoury of Madrid by Albert Frederick Calvert

An initial w has often arisen in the dialects through a falling diphthong having become a rising diphthong, e.g. in such words as wome , wum , woats , wold , lit.
— from Rustic Speech and Folk-Lore by Elizabeth Mary Wright

6 The highlander of Central India is described as “the most truthful of beings, and rarely denies either a money obligation or a crime really chargeable against him.”
— from The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck

But the truth wuz, he had been a runnin' down every way,—had lost his property and his character, wus dissipated and mean (onbeknown, it wus s'posed, to Dorlesky's father).
— from Sweet Cicely — or Josiah Allen as a Politician by Marietta Holley

In the sixteenth century the slave-trade was not free in Spain; the privilege of trading, which was granted by the Court, was purchased in 1586, for all Spanish America, by Gaspar de Peralta; in 1595, by Gomez Reynel; and in 1615, by Antonio Rodriguez de Elvas.
— from Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 by Alexander von Humboldt

He pleases himself with the example of brave and righteous deeds, even though he fears that he cannot copy them; and so he is always looking up.
— from Town and Country Sermons by Charles Kingsley

A band of criminals who had broken their country's laws and were not likely to be troubled with scruples, must have been a rather dangerous element among a somewhat disaffected crew; and, as the ship sailed northward and again met with rough weather, the convicts on board the San Raphael , seeing their opportunity, began to plot treason against the captain.
— from Chatterbox, 1906 by Various

Far more commonly, however, does the sacred dance assume a representative character and become a rudimentary drama, either imitative or emblematic.
— from Music in the History of the Western Church With an Introduction on Religious Music Among Primitive and Ancient Peoples by Edward Dickinson