On the side of the Athenians, the heavy infantry throughout the whole army formed eight deep, being in numbers equal to the enemy, with the cavalry upon the two wings.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
The individual frustules of some marine diatoms have a precisely similar form, being rectilinear and broader at one end than the other, but each frustule is attached by its narrow end to the extremity of branching cellulose stems fixed to sea-weeds or stones, and by a continuous subdivision of which the stem does not partake, they are spread out at their free ends like a fan.
— from On Molecular and Microscopic Science, Volume 1 (of 2) by Mary Somerville
To believe is nothing else than to eat this bread from heaven."
— from Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family by Elizabeth Rundle Charles
In spite of the name “Étang,” the “Petite Mer de Berre” is a veritable inland harbour or rade , closed against all outside attack by its narrow entrance through the elongated Étang de Caronte.
— from Rambles on the Riviera by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield
Dr. Samuel G. Howe belonged, if not exactly to the earliest group of friends, yet among friends both early and late.
— from Home Life of Great Authors by Hattie Tyng Griswold
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