On its site stands Santiago de Cacem, nearly midway between Lisbon and Cape St. Vincent.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

“Had you not better light a candle?” said Muishkin.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

But like a cloistress she will veiled walk, And water once a day her chamber round With eye-offending brine; all this to season
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Now foes on foes came pouring on the fields, With bristling lances, and compacted shields; Till in the steely circle straiten'd round, Forced he gives way, and sternly quits the ground.
— from The Iliad by Homer

Thirty or forty years ago, before losses and chancery suits came upon it, it was a thriving place; but now it is a desolate island indeed.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

But like a cloistress she will veiled walk, And water once a-day her chamber round With eye-offending brine: all this to season
— from Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will by William Shakespeare

The human body, in which the whole of the most distant and most recent past of all organic life once more becomes living and corporal, seems to flow through, this past and right over it like a huge and inaudible torrent; the body is a more wonderful thought than the old "soul."
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

But for all that, it is no reason that a man should be left a common soldier, who deserves to become a captain; nor to assign mean functions to those who are perfectly equal to the highest.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

erudite, instructed, leaned, lettered, educated; well conned, well informed, well read, well grounded, well educated; enlightened, shrewd, savant, blue, bookish, scholastic, solid, profound, deep-read, book- learned; accomplished &c (skillful) 698; omniscient; self-taught. known &c. v.; ascertained, well-known, recognized, received, notorious, noted; proverbial; familiar, familiar as household words, familiar to every schoolboy; hackneyed, trite, trivial, commonplace.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Simmer ten minutes; then, if you have no regular “muller,” put your syllabub-churn into the boiling liquid and churn steadily, without taking from the fire, until it is a yeasty froth.
— from Breakfast, Luncheon and Tea by Marion Harland

At three o’clock the sound became louder and continued six minutes, and after having ceased for ten minutes, it was again heard.
— from Letters on Natural Magic; Addressed to Sir Walter Scott, Bart. by David Brewster

One of his latest publications was "A Tour through the Island of Great Britain," a performance of very inferior merit; but De Foe was now the garrulous old man, and his spirit (to use the words of an ingenious biographer) "like a candle struggling in the socket, blazed and sunk, blazed and sunk, till it disappeared at length in total darkness."
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1808) by Daniel Defoe

Whether from indolence or infirmity it was hard to say, his gait was shambling and awkward, and the strength that lurked in his big limbs and chest seemed to unsteady him as he floundered top-heavily across the play-ground.
— from A Dog with a Bad Name by Talbot Baines Reed

It was succeeded by long and continued shouts from [Pg 273] all present, during which the King resumed his seat on his throne.
— from Coronation Anecdotes by Giles Gossip

The transition from the one region to the other, from the land of plenty to the land of want and famine, from the land of bright lakes, and copious streams, and green pastures, to the land of rocky heights and barren sandy wastes, is as startling as the change which sometimes occurs in human life—the change of a moment, from bustling and exuberant happiness to profound sorrow.
— from The Desert World by Arthur Mangin

Be loyal and compassionate, So shall ye pass the heavenly gate.'
— from British Quarterly Review, American Edition, Vol. LIV July and October, 1871 by Various