Large numbers of wax candles had been collected and placed in cut-glass chandeliers, and the parquet floor of the long, double drawing-room reflected these constellations.
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. The Man Of Property by John Galsworthy

In Madras, at the annual festival of the goddess of the Black Town (now George Town 6 ), when a tāli (marriage badge) is tied round the neck of the idol in the name of the entire community, a Parēyan is chosen to represent the bridegroom.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

that they alone in the different regions they occupied produced epic poetry … But other causes and particular influences combined to nourish and develop the epic germ of the Sanskrit-Indians.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Whatever be the foreign commodity with which the foreign goods for home consumption are purchased, it can occasion no essential difference, either in the nature of the trade, or in the encouragement and support which it can give to the productive labour of the country from which it is carried on.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

In a third letter, he says, “Let me die, my dear Livia, if I am not astonished, that the declamation of your grandson, Tiberius, should please me; for how he who talks so ill, should be able to declaim so clearly and properly, I cannot imagine.”
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

In general, then, one may say competition becomes conscious and personal in conflict.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

“And that is why I have sworn not to put pen to paper until my ideas either clarify or depart entirely; I have quite enough sins on my soul without putting dangerous, shallow epigrams into people's heads; I might cause a poor, inoffensive capitalist to have a vulgar liaison with a bomb, or get some innocent little Bolshevik tangled up with a machine-gun bullet—” Tom was growing restless under this lampooning of his connection with The New Democracy.
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

Causes they must be, and better known , and prior in time, causes , because we then know when we are acquainted with the cause, and prior , if causes, and known beforehand , not merely comprehended in idea but known to exist (The terms prior, and better known, bear two senses for prior by nature and prior relatively to ourselves are not the same, nor better known by nature , and better known to us I mean, by prior and better known relatively to ourselves , such things as are nearer to sensation, but abstractedly so such as are further Those are furthest which are most universal those nearest which are particulars, and these are mutually opposed) And by first , I mean principles akin to the conclusion , for principle means the same as first And the principle or first step in demonstration is a proposition incapable of syllogistic proof,
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

I could not hear their conversation and presently it ceased and all dismounted, as the last body of troops had wheeled into position before their emperor.
— from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

This unity of its being in all its phenomena, this unchangeable constancy of the appearance of these, whenever, under the guidance of causality, the necessary conditions are present, is called a law of nature .
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

Methylic ether, like ammonia, evaporates rapidly, and absorbs heat from neighbouring bodies in so doing; the vapour passing through tubes in a cylinder cools down the air outside the tubes; the cooled air passes into chambers in the hold, where the meat is either hung up or put on shelves.
— from Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 695 April 21, 1877. by Various

co tanto inclinata al bene, et alla quiete, fà conoscere a pieno il contrario, come dimostra pur troppo chiaramente
— from The Wars of Religion in France 1559-1576 The Huguenots, Catherine de Medici and Philip II by James Westfall Thompson

If this result does not follow, and I may tell you at once it never does—unless it be in a case of toothache, and a tooth is drawn—the patient is peevish and fretful, the doctor is looked upon as unskilful, and, money being no object, the chances are that before the doctor or surgeon has had a chance, another practitioner is called in.
— from Adventures of Working Men. From the Notebook of a Working Surgeon by George Manville Fenn

The plastron is imperfectly ossified, and not united with the pelvis, and the whole surface of both carapace and plastron is covered with a tough leathery skin, without horny shields.
— from The Vertebrate Skeleton by Sidney H. (Sidney Hugh) Reynolds

The best modern books on various subjects in different countries should be translated into Chinese and published in cheap edition form for the general public in China.
— from The Political Doctrines of Sun Yat-sen: An Exposition of the San Min Chu I by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

This reversal of motion is obtained by means of a lever mounted at its center and placed in contact with the upper extremity of the push rod at its outer end.
— from The Gasoline Motor by Harold Whiting Slauson

The avoidable factor in their causation is, with some modification, not unlike that of the simpler feral movements and faulty attitudes, carriage, and postures in children;
— from Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by G. Stanley (Granville Stanley) Hall

And then, when we reflect upon the influence which would be exerted upon the future religious character of this nation by having the millions of children training up in the schools accustomed, through all the years of early life, to being brought daily into the presence of the Supreme, with thanksgiving, confession, and prayer, it can hardly seem possible that the teacher who wishes to be faithful in his duties should hesitate in regard to this.
— from The Teacher Moral Influences Employed in the Instruction and Government of the Young by Jacob Abbott