And they say that Euripides gave him a small work of Heraclitus to read, and asked him afterwards what he thought of it, and he replied, “What I have understood is good; and so, I think, what I have not understood is; only the book requires a Delian diver to get at the meaning of it.”
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

In later times the above belief underwent a change, and the winds came to be regarded as distinct divinities, whose aspect accorded with the respective winds with which they were identified.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

I dream about statuesque beauties Who look from the shadows of opera boxes; Or elegant ladies in novels of eighteen thirty, At the hunt ball… Reflections in a polish floor, A portrait by Renoir, A Degas dancing girl, English country houses, An autumn afternoon in the Bois, Something I have read of…
— from Precipitations by Evelyn Scott

Beguines, the, 327 n. Bell, Rev. Andrew, D. D., 575 , 582 and note, 605 ; his Origin, Nature, and Object of the New System of Education , 581 and note, 582 .
— from Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Dey bangs right ahead; DEY don’t care what happens.
— from Tom Sawyer Abroad by Mark Twain

[3] The cove between represents a deep ditch-like hollow, which occurs in Skye, both in the interior and on the sea-shore, in the line of boundary betwixt the Red Sandstone and the Lias; and it "seems to have originated," says M'Culloch, "in the decomposition of the exposed parts of the formations at their junction."
— from The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland by Hugh Miller

The marks of violence found upon the body could be accounted for by the fact that the crate had fallen a distance of thirty feet into the hold, and the surgeon was convinced that the injuries to the body had all been received after death, death having taken place in his opinion fully twelve hours before.
— from The Green Eyes of Bâst by Sax Rohmer

“Nay, say not so,” replied he, calmly, while a sickly smile played sadly over his face; “you will give this letter to my daughter, you will tell her that we parted as friends should part; and if after that, when time shall have smoothed down her grief, and her sorrow be rather a dark dream of the past than a present suffering,—if then you love her, and if—” “Oh, tempt me not thus!” said I, as the warm tears gushed from my eyes.
— from Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2 by Charles James Lever

her Rocky Mountains, buildin' her big railroads and diggin' ditches to water the land and make it beautiful that they're shet out of.
— from Samantha at the St. Louis Exposition by Marietta Holley

Most of the operations required in its construction have already been carefully explained and need not be repeated as detailed directions.
— from The Library of Work and Play: Home Decoration by Charles Franklin Warner