Nor did it retain any hold upon the minds of his disciples in a later generation; it was probably unintelligible to them.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

The main details of these ceremonies will be described in a later part of this book.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

“A disturbance in a little camp of tank-diggers confirmed a statement which I heard at Masulipatam as to the manner in which the tank-diggers divide their wages.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

When I read a sublime fact in Plutarch, or an unselfish deed in a line of poetry, or thrill beneath some heroic legend, it is no longer fairyland—I have seen it matched.—
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

Theodori, 279-331) describes, in a lively and fanciful manner, the various games of the circus, the theatre, and the amphitheatre, exhibited by the new consul.
— 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

But I thank God I did it at last, and brought them all fine and right; and I am, I thinke, by all appears to me (and I am sure I cannot be L10 wrong), worth above L4600, for which the Lord be praised! being the biggest sum I ever was worth yet.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Even its influence on Manicheism however is disputed in a learned article in the Home and Foreign Review III.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

What does it all lead to? Should not an end be put to this impious wisdom once for all?”
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

But though so perilous the plot, You now may easily defeat it: All lighting on the seeded spot, Just scratch up every seed and eat it.'
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

So again, if the three families formed of eight genera (a14 to m14), on the uppermost line, be supposed to differ from each other by half-a-dozen important characters, then the families which existed at a period marked VI would certainly have differed from each other by a less number of characters; for they would at this early stage of descent have diverged in a less degree from their common progenitor.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

And Was Wounded And Died In A Little Time Afterward; As Also How Neco Carried Jehoahaz, Who Had Been Made King Into Egypt And Delivered The Kingdom To Jehoiakim; And [Lastly] Concerning Jeremiah And Ezekiel.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

The situation was much more clearly described in a letter to General John Mason written approximately at the same time.
— from Thomas Jefferson, the Apostle of Americanism by Gilbert Chinard

And with all these mingled the Indian women and girls, their complexions a warm reddish brown, their black hair draped in cotton wraps of blue or brown, green or pink, thrown sari-fashion round the head and falling over the shoulders; their bare feet, innocent of shoe tortures, small and dainty, if a little broad.
— from The American Egypt: A Record of Travel in Yucatan by Frederick J. Tabor Frost

There Mr. Graeme showed Donal into a large, low-ceiled, old-fashioned drawing-room, smelling of ancient rose-leaves, their odour of sad hearts rather than of withered flowers—and leaving him went to find his sister.
— from Donal Grant by George MacDonald

She knew it would be honorable, but she could not do it, at least just then.
— from My Queen: A Weekly Journal for Young Women. Issue 2, October 6, 1900 Marion Marlowe's Courage; or, A Brave Girl's Struggle for Life and Honor by Lurana Sheldon

Madame Desvarennes could not resist the inclination of finding out whether Micheline knew what was going on, and one morning when the young wife came down to see her mother, dressed in a lovely pink gown, the mistress, while teasing her daughter, said, carelessly: "It seems your husband lost heavily last night."
— from Serge Panine — Volume 03 by Georges Ohnet

Chapter XIX "But man, proud man, Dress'd in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured, His glassy essence, like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high Heaven."
— from Newton Forster by Frederick Marryat

The language of the deed is a little singular for a man of his character.
— from Cora and The Doctor; or, Revelations of A Physician's Wife by Madeline Leslie

“Not so bad as that,” said Dominic in a low tone; and he helped the boy along till Green looked back, saw what was taking place, and shouted: “Now then, none of that, Convict.
— from First in the Field: A Story of New South Wales by George Manville Fenn

Smith did it at last, and when Bob Pretty put his 'and in the bag and pulled out a paper you might ha' heard a pin drop.
— from Sailors' Knots (Entire Collection) by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs