Come, cast your grief and sloth aside: Again be every effort tried; So haply may our toil attain The sweet success that follows pain.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Several stems rise 2–3° directly from the peculiar, branched rhizome; long-lanceolate, acuminate, entire, glabrous, alternate leaves diverge stiffly from the sides of the stem; petiole proper very short, its broader extension ensheathing the stem; general appearance of a single stem is much like that of the Solomon’s seal so familiar in the U. S. Curcuma longa , L. Nom.
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera

Other localities and other circumstances might be mentioned where this measure would be equally essential to safety.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

If two "levellers" of equal height are used with a third of less height placed at the centre of the course, with perhaps others of intermediate height used at intermediate points, it would obviously be equally easy to set out a curved course, as, for instance, the curved stylobate of the Parthenon which rises about three inches in its length of one hundred feet.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

Both evidently encouraged the spirit of independence and self-control among their people, while of other virtues, Lykurgus loved bravery, and Numa loved justice best; unless indeed we should say that, from the very different temper and habits of the two states, they required to be treated in a different manner.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

All content which they receive, every phenomenon which fills these forms, contains something which is no longer completely knowable in its whole nature, something which can no longer be entirely explained through something else, something then which is groundless, through which consequently the knowledge loses its evidence and ceases to be completely lucid.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

This involved the erection or rather re-erection of bridges over the lesser and greater Don, to enable the inhabitants of York to reach the long lines of lake beach, extending eastward to Scarborough Heights and westward to Gibraltar Point.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

Although the speed could not be exactly estimated, the sledge could not be going at less than forty miles an hour.
— from Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

I believe that this notion of our having a simple pain in the reality, yet a delight in the representation, arises from hence, that we do not sufficiently distinguish what we would by no means Page 145 choose to do, from what we should be eager enough to see if it was once done.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

Of course, it would be easy enough to slip through at night, as I had done with the English at Torres Vedras, but I was still far from the mountain and I could not in that case reach it in time to light the midnight beacon.
— from The Adventures of Gerard by Arthur Conan Doyle

The trees or mountains which are several hundred feet distant from the eye give to both eyes exactly the same impression, inasmuch as the small difference of position between the two eyeballs has no influence compared with the distance of the objects from our face.
— from The Photoplay: A Psychological Study by Hugo Münsterberg

These principles were subjected to various tests, and it was found that in Germany the existing carriages which could best be adapted to the desired purpose were those belonging to the fourth-class, inasmuch as they had no internal divisions or fittings, travellers by them being expected either to stand during the journey or to sit on their luggage.
— from The Rise of Rail-Power in War and Conquest, 1833-1914 by Edwin A. Pratt

2. All electoral committees, all local organizations, the Councils of Workmen's, Soldiers' and Peasants' Delegates and the soldiers' organizations at the front are to bend every effort toward safeguarding the freedom of the voters and fair play at the elections to the Constituent Assembly, which will be held on the appointed date.
— from Bolshevism: The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy by John Spargo

His hope is to buy out of England’s superfluity of castles, abbeys, monuments, historical buildings, etc., enough to serve as a much needed background for the new American race.
— from The Book Review Digest, Volume 13, 1917 Thirteenth Annual Cumulation Reviews of 1917 Books by Various

He drew forth a yellow old parchment from his bosom, and looked smilingly now at the lines thereon, now at the Pope, and now at Belisarius, evidently enjoying their suspense.
— from A Struggle for Rome, v. 2 by Felix Dahn

Moreover, although it had been easy enough to say he would think no more about his vision and its accompanying incidents, it was not so easy to put the determination into practice, and he found himself spending the night in the vain attempt to untangle the web, and in endeavoring to analyze the subtle, uncomfortable sense of mystery which those events had left behind them.
— from What Dreams May Come by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

There is a much smaller three-cornered fontanel at the back of the suture, and one behind either ear; these soon close up with bone.
— from The Four Epochs of Woman's Life; A Study in Hygiene by Anna M. (Anna Mary) Galbraith

It would be easy enough to starve the gang out of Back Cup, by preventing the tug from supplying them with provisions.
— from Facing the Flag by Jules Verne