The commentators, referring to this passage, overlook the words ’præter jam dicta,’ and represent Pliny as calling Colossæ ‘oppidum celeberrimum.’ Not unnaturally they find it difficult to reconcile this expression with Strabo’s statement.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

From thence, wheeling round the Thracian cities of the Propontis, Moslemah invested Constantinople on the land side, surrounded his camp with a ditch and rampart, prepared and planted his engines of assault, and declared, by words and actions, a patient resolution of expecting the return of seed-time and harvest, should the obstinacy of the besieged prove equal to his own.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

The hermit did as Ráma prayed, And in a spot his lodging made, [pg 062] Far from the crowd, sequestered, clear, With copious water flowing near.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

When at thy coming my father has given thee the deadly teeth from the dragon's jaws for sowing, then watch for the time when the night is parted in twain, then bathe in the stream of the tireless river, and alone, apart from others, clad in dusky raiment, dig a rounded pit; and therein slay a ewe, and sacrifice it whole, heaping high the pyre on the very edge of the pit.
— from The Argonautica by Rhodius Apollonius

“Hence, Suffolk dairy wives run mad for cream, And leave their milk with nothing but the name; Its name derision and reproach pursue, And strangers tell of three-times-skimm’d— SKY-BLUE .”
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

Its depth, and rapt passion and sincerity, makes it musical;—go deep enough, there is music everywhere.
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

If, then, the Catholic citizens of the United States are not forcibly led by the nature of their tenets to adopt democratic and republican principles, at least they are not necessarily opposed to them; and their social position, as well as their limited number, obliges them to adopt these opinions.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

The systemic normal aortic arch may be obliterated as far up as the innominate branch , and while the ductus arteriosus remains pervious, and leading from the pulmonary artery to the descending part of the aortic arch, this vessel would then present the appearance of a branch ascending from the left side and giving off the brachio-cephalic arteries.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

The same Plato also tells us that nature put eyesight into us, in order that 336 the soul by beholding and admiring the heavenly bodies might accustom itself to welcome and love harmony and order, and might hate disorderly and roving propensities, and avoid aimless reliance on chance, as the parent of all vice and error.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

Friedrich Heinrich Himmel, five years older than Beethoven, whom the King had withdrawn from the study of theology and caused to be thoroughly educated as a musician, first under Naumann in Dresden and afterwards in Italy, had returned the year before and had assumed his duties as Royal Pianist and Composer.
— from The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven, Volume I by Alexander Wheelock Thayer

At any rate Eck displayed a rare power and endurance in those Leipzig days, and understood above all how to pursue with cleverness the real object he had in view in his contest with Luther.
— from Life of Luther by Julius Köstlin

One of Collyer's chums showed us the door of the smithy which he had rescued from demolition and religiously preserved, and presented us with a photograph which we were assured represents the building just as Collyer knew it,—a long, low fabric of stone, with a shed joined at one end, two forge chimneys rising out of the roof, and the rough doors and window-shutters placarded with public
— from A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors by Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen) Wolfe

6. As to the Government depôts of food, their lordships "desire that it may be fully understood that even at those places at which Government depôts will be established for the sale of food, the depots will not be opened while food can be obtained by the people from private dealers, at reasonable prices ; and that even when the depôts are opened, the meal will, if possible, be sold at such prices as will allow of the private trader selling at the same price, with a reasonable profit ."
— from The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines by O'Rourke, John, Canon

"CERT, the Computer Emergency Response Team was created by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency as an outgrowth of the 1988 INTERNET Worm incident.
— from Terminal Compromise by Winn Schwartau

There we shall settle down as respectable people, and it would be no advantage to me to rake up the past, once I was settled down and prosperous.
— from The Weird Sisters: A Romance. Volume 1 (of 3) by Richard Dowling

The flats of the Upper Thames, where the floods get out up the ditches and tributaries, and the wild duck gather on the shallow "splashes" and are stalked with the stalking-horse as of old, were as dry as Richmond Park, and sounded hollow to the foot, instead of wheezing like a sponge.
— from The Naturalist on the Thames by C. J. (Charles John) Cornish

And therfor, quhen Cesar was slayn [Pg viii] by the Sanatouris, Octavyan had revengeit his deth, and rang passabilly at the byrth of our salviour, quhen the starn of Bethliam apperit.
— from The Æneid of Virgil Translated Into Scottish Verse. Volumes 1 & 2 by Virgil