On this ancient city, Sagala, I have already said much; conjecturing it to be the Salbhanpura of the Yadus when driven from Zabulistan, and that of the Yuch-chi or Yuti, who were fixed there from Central Asia in the fifth century, and if so early as the second century, when Ptolemy wrote, may have originated the change of Yuti-media, the ‘Central Yuti.’
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

All important works may be found in the convenient and inexpensive school editions given below.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

In the first group: organ–pipe coral, gorgonian coral arranged into fan shapes, soft sponges from Syria, isis coral from the Molucca Islands, sea–pen coral, wonderful coral of the genus Virgularia from the waters of Norway, various coral of the genus Umbellularia, alcyonarian coral, then a whole series of those madrepores that my mentor Professor Milne–Edwards has so shrewdly classified into divisions and among which I noted the wonderful genus Flabellina as well as the genus Oculina from Réunion Island, plus a Neptune's chariot from the Caribbean Sea—every superb variety of coral, and in short, every species of these unusual polyparies that congregate to form entire islands that will one day turn into continents.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

end of class="bookfn" end of class="chapter" CHAPTER: 19 end of class="chapnumber" My Master, In Calcutta, Appears In Serampore end of class="chaptitle" "I am often beset by atheistic doubts.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

And the creative power of Zeus also coincides with him, by reason of which in Cyprus, as I said earlier, shrines are founded and assigned to them in common.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 1 by Emperor of Rome Julian

Being Tom Sawyer was easy and comfortable, and it stayed easy and comfortable till by and by I hear a steamboat coughing along down the river.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Olympiad must be reckoned to contain; and I shall endeavour to include the history of them in two books.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

Most of their number, meanwhile, were engaged in dispatching themselves by thrusting into their throats the arrows shot by the enemy, and hanging themselves with the cords taken from some beds that happened to be there, and with strips made from their clothing; adopting, in short, every possible means of self-destruction, and also falling victims to the missiles of their enemies on the roof.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

As the human body is said to change all its substance every seven years, and yet is the same body, so the Hebraic conscience might change all its tenets in seven generations and be the same conscience still.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

But though many people have made a little money by insurance, very few have made a great fortune; and, from this consideration alone, it seems evident enough that the ordinary balance of profit and loss is not more advantageous in this than in other common trades, by which so many people make fortunes.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Her name survives in Ebchester on the Derwent, where she founded a nunnery; in St. Abb's Head, near which she afterwards founded the double monastery of Coldingham; and in St. Ebbe's, Oxford.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

Further, at the bases of ice-cascades the structural laminæ are usually vertical : below the cascade of the Talèfre, of the Noire, of the Strahleck branch of the Lower Grindelwald Glacier, of the Rhone, and other ice-falls, this is the case; and it seems extremely difficult to conceive that a mass horizontally stratified at the summit of the fall, should, in its descent, contrive to turn its strata perfectly on end.
— from The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, an account of the origin and phenomena of glaciers and an exposition of the physical principles to which they are related by John Tyndall

The close-times of the present statutes are not altogether correct; and in so extensive a locality as the United States, where diverse interests are to be considered, it is nearly impracticable to make the laws perfect.
— from Florida and the Game Water-Birds of the Atlantic Coast and the Lakes of the United States With a full account of the sporting along our sea-shores and inland waters, and remarks on breech-loaders and hammerless guns by Robert Barnwell Roosevelt

"You are fighting on one side, and I am fighting on the other, Christy; and I suppose either of us is justified in lying and breaking his promises in the service of his country."
— from Fighting for the Right by Oliver Optic

The modern mediums are thus simply repeating with new costumes and improved scenic effects the mystic drama of primitive man.
— from Fact and Fable in Psychology by Joseph Jastrow

"No, my child; and I shall endeavor to repay, to some slight extent, our indebtedness to him.
— from Now or Never; Or, The Adventures of Bobby Bright: A Story for Young Folks by Oliver Optic

It now became necessary to repress myself and to cringe, and I soon entirely lost the art of rooting the sins of others out by fire.
— from Klytia: A Story of Heidelberg Castle by Adolf Hausrath

She again boxed their ears soundly, but the next time she paid no heed to them, and at each fresh arrival of visitors the two urchins always followed in the wake, crowded themselves up in a corner, and imitating slavishly everything they saw their mother do.
— from The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 4 by Guy de Maupassant