Cut a Greek cross into six pieces that will form an equilateral triangle.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

Prone on his face he sinks beside the wheel: Atrides o'er him shakes his vengeful steel; The fallen chief in suppliant posture press'd The victor's knees, and thus his prayer address'd: "O spare my youth, and for the life I owe Large gifts of price my father shall bestow.
— from The Iliad by Homer

They probably would not fulfill this duty any better than it is fulfilled by the inhabitants voting directly; while, on the other hand, if fitness for electing members of Parliament had to be taken into consideration in selecting persons for the office of vestrymen or town councillors, many of those who are fittest for that more limited duty would inevitably be excluded from it, if only by the necessity there would be of choosing persons whose sentiments in general politics agreed with those of the voters who elected them.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

It is, therefore, with a view to the delicate modesty of your mind that I cultivate it so purely in my own; and it is that which will sufficiently suggest to you the uneasiness I bear from those liberties, which men to whom the world allow politeness will sometimes give themselves on these occasions.
— from Joseph Andrews, Vol. 1 by Henry Fielding

Put thy sword up, traitor; Who mak'st a show but dar'st not strike, thy conscience Is so possess'd with guilt.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Now himselfe confesseth in some place, that when he began this worke, at the first it was but to profit others; but that afterwards it was to profit himselfe, looking upon those histories, as if he had looked in a glasse, and seeking to reform his life in some sort, and to forme it in the mould of the vertues of these great men; taking this fashion of searching their manners, and writing the Lives of these noble men, to be a familiar haunting and frequenting of them.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

[76] 1 The nature of this booklet, in Tagalog, is made clear in several passages.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

Esay Garcino, refusing to renounce his religion, was cut into small pieces; the soldiers, in ridicule, saying, they had minced him.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

" 20 Then God said to Cain, "Whoever finds you will not kill you;" because before this, God had been saying to Cain, "I shall put seven punishments on anyone that kills Cain."
— from The First Book of Adam and Eve by Rutherford Hayes Platt

Groping for the truth, he began carefully to run over the things which had seemed strange to him and which now struck him as being connected in some plan darkly hidden.
— from Six Feet Four by Jackson Gregory

It offered ten per cent, on the published price of all copies sold after the first five hundred copies; it stipulated [Pg 183] that she should give him the next four novels on the same terms as an inducement to advertise the book properly—and it had drawn from Julia the prompt reply, "Send the typescript of my novel back at once ."
— from The Man Who Found Himself (Uncle Simon) by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole

4. With this instrument, the iron is beaten, until the mass has been considerably extended, when it is cut into several pieces, which, by repeated beating and forging, are extended into bars, as we see them
— from Popular Technology; or, Professions and Trades. Vol. 2 (of 2) by Edward Hazen

As physical life propagates and thus continues itself, so personality is transmitted in unconscious innumerable ways.
— from The Gate of Appreciation: Studies in the Relation of Art to Life by Carleton Eldredge Noyes

They were to be free to carry into such ports any goods or merchandise whatsoever, except arms and ammunition, and the right of search was to be tolerated as regarded such contraband articles, and for no other purpose.
— from The American Revolution by John Fiske

[98] The fact that a great poet can ignore such precepts with impunity is proved by the exquisite anticlimax of the third act of D'Annunzio's La Gioconda .
— from Play-Making: A Manual of Craftsmanship by William Archer

The prince, however, saluted gravely, and then Christina, in silence, put out her hand.
— from Roderick Hudson by Henry James

When the Normans—a vigorous people of Scandinavian origin, speaking a Romance tongue, and therefore well fitted to accomplish a harmonizing task of this kind—occupied both sides of the English Channel, it seemed probable that they would dominate the speech of England as well as of France.
— from The Task of Social Hygiene by Havelock Ellis

Essence of Vanilla. — Take 1 ounce vanilla beans; split each bean in two (lengthwise); then cut into small pieces; put these into a large bottle with 1 pint alcohol and 1 pint water; cork the bottle, not too tightly; set in a warm place for 3 weeks and shake it once every day; it will them be ready for use.
— from Desserts and Salads by Gesine Lemcke

In this form, gold is still current in some parts of Africa; and even in the Southern states of our own country, in the vicinity of the gold mines, the same practice, in a measure, prevails.
— from Popular Technology; or, Professions and Trades. Vol. 2 (of 2) by Edward Hazen