The bride, she taketh the poison of their giving: She taketh the bounden gold and openeth; And the crown, the crown, she lifteth about her brow, Where the light brown curls are clustering.
— from Medea of Euripides by Euripides

Among the latter I observed a species of dogfish called the cow shark that's equipped with six respiratory slits, the telescope fish with its enormous eyes, the armored gurnard with gray thoracic fins plus black pectoral fins and a breastplate protected by pale red slabs of bone, then finally the grenadier, living at a depth of 1,200 meters, by that point tolerating a pressure of 120 atmospheres.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

6 On the same year the middle of the forum is said to have fallen in to an immense depth, forming a sort of vast cave, either by reason of an earthquake, or some other violent cause; nor could that gulf be filled up by throwing earth into it, every one exerting himself to the utmost, until by the admonition of the gods an inquiry began to be instituted, as to what constituted the chief strength of the Roman people?
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

If Z fall upon the Circumference, the Colour shall be intense and florid in the highest Degree; if it fall in the mid-way between the Circumference and Center, it shall be but half so intense, that is, it shall be such a Colour as would be made by diluting the intensest yellow with an equal quantity of whiteness; and if it fall upon the center O, the Colour shall have lost all its intenseness, and become a white.
— from Opticks Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton

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— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

But, as the European mediæval schoolmen have done with the Bible, so, after the death of Confucius the Chinese scholastics by metaphysical reasoning and commentary, created systems of interpretation which greatly altered the apparent form and contents of his own and of the ancient texts.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

But one morning he noticed, on moving to the window after breakfast, that not a word was proceeding either from the butler or the housekeeper, but that, on the contrary, the courtyard seemed to smack of a certain bustle and excitement.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

For if, as we have done above, one compares the ceaseless, serious, and laborious striving of men with what they gain by it, nay, even with what they ever can gain, the disproportion we have pointed out becomes apparent, [Pg 999] for one recognizes that that which is to be gained, taken as the motive power, is entirely insufficient for the explanation of that movement and that ceaseless striving.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Nevertheless, from the facts above alluded to, and from some connection apparently existing between complexion and a tendency to consumption, the conjecture seemed to me not improbable.
— from The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex by Charles Darwin

Each successive Congress would still have gone to the Constitution for its power, brushing away in its course the cobwebs stretched across its path by the officiousness of an impertinent predecessor.
— from The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4 by American Anti-Slavery Society

That he should accuse her of committing the crime seemed unreasonable.
— from Red Money by Fergus Hume

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— from Agatized Rainbows: A Story of the Petrified Forest by Harold J. Brodrick

[Pg 17] The glasses were charged; the company stood on their legs, some of them not at all steady legs just then, bending their ears to listen.
— from The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 1, January, 1891 by Various

A bath [42] and fresh clothing; then, clean shaven and ready, all but his coat, he flung himself upon his bed for ten minutes of absolute relaxation, after which he felt himself quite fit for the expedition.
— from The Man of the Desert by Grace Livingston Hill

At a certain cot the chief surgeon stopped and said, “We did not expect this boy to live through the night.”
— from Literature and Life (Complete) by William Dean Howells