When its herds and flocks have consumed the forage of one part of the country, it removes to another, and from that to a third.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Büttner-Wobst. —Dio corrected in regard to an episode in the siege of Ambracia, 189 B.C. (Philol., Vol. 57, part 3.) Ph. Fabia.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

Still onward; and the clear canal Is rounded to as clear a lake.
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

All the masses or tones (for the terms are often used interchangeably) that go to the making of a visual impression can be considered in relation to an imagined scale from white, to represent the lightest, to black, to represent the darkest tones.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

Every mass has to be considered in relation to an imagined tone scale, taking black for your darkest and white for your highest light as we have seen.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

It is enough that when the brief of Judge Plunkett's case is ready there are clouds of willing witnesses to substantiate and corroborate doubtful points to an extent that is more creditable to their generosity than their veracity.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

Aristophanes is ready to laugh and make laugh before he opens his mouth, just as Socrates, true to his character, is ready to argue before he begins to speak.
— from Symposium by Plato

Clearly it ran to a house, and I began to think of doing the same.
— from The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan

This conclusion in regard to allegory, which is founded on our consideration of the nature of art and quite consistent with it, is directly opposed to the opinion of Winckelmann, who, far from explaining allegory, as we do, as something quite foreign to the end of art, and often interfering with it, always speaks in favour of it, and indeed (Works, vol.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

The great superiority, in a sanitary point of view, of all the pail or pan systems over the best forms over the old cesspits or even the middens is due to the fact that the interval of collection is reduced to a minimum, the changing or emptying of the receptacles being sometimes effected daily, and the period never exceeding a week.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884 by Various

[Pg 323] CHAPTER II Great explanations about the bear-steak—Jacotot—An ill-sounding epithet—A seditious felt hat—The carabiniers who were too clever—I quarrel with King Charles-Albert over the Dent du Chat—Princes and men of intellect I returned to Florence in 1842 for a very sad and distressing ceremony; I returned to attend the funeral of the Duc d'Orléans.
— from My Memoirs, Vol. VI, 1832 to 1833 by Alexandre Dumas

248 ev'n thine, O Rome there are so many splendid churches in Rome that an inhabitant of this city would be less inclined than a stranger to wonder at the perfect proportions of any of them.
— from The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Alexander Pope

It is my understanding that there is no more reason for the copper to be removed than the lead to be removed, and it is my observation of the mark itself, the lead deposits, that the effect of time on it was to add a layer of dirt and film over it which covered it—more an adding on of dirt and other matter which covered it rather than a wearing away.
— from Warren Commission (15 of 26): Hearings Vol. XV (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

"The order convening the Court (a copy of which was not received by me at my division headquarters until two days after the time appointed for the Court to assemble) contemplates an inquiry based on the application of Lieutenant Colonel G. K. Warren, Corps of Engineers, as to his conduct while major-general commanding the Fifth Army Corps, under my command, in reference to accusations or imputations assumed in the order to have been made against him, and I understand through the daily press that my official report of the battle of Five Forks has been submitted by him as a basis of inquiry.
— from Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army — Volume 2 by Philip Henry Sheridan

They brought it to reason with half a dozen round shot, and presently steamed cautiously in round the awkward corners, and dropped anchor opposite the house where Lord Raglan had taken up his quarters.
— from The Coil of Carne by John Oxenham

It is, however, the merest guess-work to attempt to confine its resemblances to any particular animal.
— from Animal Carvings from Mounds of the Mississippi Valley Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-81, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pages 117-166 by Henry W. (Henry Wetherbee) Henshaw

If the call number is to be gilded it will be easier to do it before the cover is removed than after it is replaced.
— from Library Bookbinding by Arthur Low Bailey

The above-mentioned discrepancy between various statements of the Russians leads me to think that what Count Munster told me some days since may have some truth in it—namely, that Pobedonostzeff, whom I knew well, when minister to Russia, as the strongest man of moral, religious, and social questions in that country, is really the author of the documents that were originally given to the world as emanating from the Russian Foreign Office, and that he has now added to them this definite scheme for arbitration.
— from Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 2 by Andrew Dickson White