The phlebotome appears to have been a convenient instrument for all sorts of operations besides phlebotomy, especially for the opening of abscesses and the puncture of cavities containing fluid, and for fine dissecting work.
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

For those who think they are wronged naturally hate those who they think wrong them, and dislike and are on their guard against those who are injurious or bad to others; 762 but people envy merely those they think prosperous.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

[Pg 141] IT was a bright morning in the early part of summer; the river had resumed its wonted banks and its accustomed pace, and a hot sun seemed to be pulling everything green and bushy and spiky up out of the earth towards him, as if by strings.
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

Later on he would see her bright, pellucid eyes, like shallow water, and know those.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Ya he matado más de un barbero por esa causa; ¡con que tenga cuidado!—añadió por vía de explicación.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

“You are about to swear upon your honor and I upon my word, and then it will be pretty evident that one of us will have lied.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

The full-faced open helmet is ugly in the extreme—anything would be preferable (except an open helmet in profile), and probably it would be better to wipe out the rule on this point as well.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Of the Kauthuma recension nothing has been preserved excepting the seventh prapāṭhaka , which, in the Naigeya subdivision of this school, forms an addition to the first ārchika , and was edited in 1868.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

In transcendental cognition, so long as we are dealing only with conceptions of the understanding, we are guided by possible experience.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

His very appearance excited awe and reverence; his figure was proud, lofty, and warlike, while his bright, piercing eye expressed profundity of thought, combined with gravity and mystery.
— from A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges by John Lord

This may be partly explained by the insufficient number of surveyors at the disposal of the governor, and by the tedious and difficult process of escheating lands already granted; but it is impossible not to convict the governor and his staff of want of foresight and expedition in making arrangements and carrying them into effect.
— from The United Empire Loyalists : A Chronicle of the Great Migration by W. Stewart (William Stewart) Wallace

The cursive of the Romans had always been an ugly and ill-decipherable script; and it was only in the seventh century that even the Italians, under barbarian pressure, evolved a fairly good readable minuscule.
— from Palæography Notes upon the History of Writing and the Medieval Art of Illumination by Bernard Quaritch

Buford's command was lying in wait—let the blue bellies get far enough from the town and they could cut in between, perhaps even overrun the remaining garrison and accomplish what Forrest himself had believed impossible, the taking of Murfreesboro.
— from Ride Proud, Rebel! by Andre Norton

You shan't hear the last of it for some time, I can assure you; and I'll tell dear Lady Fleetwood how mercenary you are, and that you think marriage is merely a matter of property--that people should be perfectly equal in that respect at least.
— from The Forgery; or, Best Intentions. by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

2. A child naturally fair-minded, may become dishonest by parental example.
— from Twelve Causes of Dishonesty by Henry Ward Beecher

But suddenly a better plan entered the prince’s head, and, letting the others pass him, he took his precious parcel from his breast and wished himself a lion.
— from The Brown Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

The French crossed the Senne at Halle and Tabize, and the allies resolved to attack them next morning; but the enemy passed the Dender in the night with great expedition; and the duke of Marlborough next day encamped at Asche, where he was joined by prince Eugene, who had marched with a considerable reinforcement of Germans from the Moselle.
— from The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. Continued from the Reign of William and Mary to the Death of George II. by T. (Tobias) Smollett

A great victory gained over the Turks by Prince Eugene at Zenta was followed by the Peace of Carlowitz , which gave Hungary and Transylvania to Austria, Morea to Venice, and Azof to Russia.
— from Outlines of Universal History, Designed as a Text-book and for Private Reading by George Park Fisher

"Dans toutes l'auteur ne chante que la beauté plastique et les plaisirs faciles; leur Cypris est la
— from Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Henry T. Finck