Salvaging Replaced Cells When it has been necessary to replace cells which have been in service, the elements can very often be saved and assembled again and used as replacement cells in batteries which are several years old.
— from The Automobile Storage Battery: Its Care And Repair by Otto A. Witte

On the other hand, that distinction has long been inalienably secured to every character of the first class, who appears in the Homeric poems.
— from Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, Vol. 3 of 3 I. Agorè: Polities of the Homeric Age. II. Ilios: Trojans and Greeks Compared. III. Thalassa: The Outer Geography. IV. Aoidos: Some Points of the Poetry of Homer. by W. E. (William Ewart) Gladstone

"The leaders of this people caused them to err," by inculcating submission to existing corrupt civil power.
— from Notes on the Apocalypse by David Steele

As for the army, a Bill for compulsory service was brought in, showing the enormous change in Republican ideals; but it failed to pass.
— from The Wars Between England and America by Theodore Clarke Smith

If the board is small the executive committee may be omitted, in which case the board itself performs the duties of the executive committee.
— from Cyclopedia of Commerce, Accountancy, Business Administration, v. 01 (of 10) by American School of Correspondence

As the brook is straight, the eye can see under these a long way up; and presently a kingfisher, bright with azure and ruddy hues, comes down the brook, flying but just above the surface on which his reflection travels too.
— from Round About a Great Estate by Richard Jefferies

On this point Sir William Jones observes: "The use of dice may, perhaps, be justified in a representation of war, in which fortune has unquestionably a great share, but it seems to exclude Chess from the rank which has been assigned to it among the sciences, and to give the game before us the appearance of Whist , except that pieces are used only instead of cards, which are held concealed."
— from Facts and Speculations on the Origin and History of Playing Cards by William Andrew Chatto

It would be still easier to retort them: but I should think either course unworthy of me and of this great occasion.
— from Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron