The student may read Homer or Æschylus in the Greek without danger of dissipation or luxuriousness, for it implies that he in some measure emulate their heroes, and consecrate morning hours to their pages.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

“We had the Siberian plague here, you know—the cattle die off like flies, I can tell you—and the veterinary surgeons came here, and strict orders were given that the dead cattle were to be buried at a distance deep in the earth, that lime was to be thrown over them, and so on, you know, on scientific principles.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The Lions’ Den O ne division of La Force, in which the most dangerous and desperate prisoners are confined, is called the court of Saint-Bernard.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

The leaves, seed, or roots, are all very good in decoction, drinks, or lotions, for inward or outward wounds, or other sores.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

[Pg 125] that the fish catch was actually small; when the Nazis accused the Jews of sedition, it meant that rations were short and that the Nazi government was going to appease the populace by denying the Jews their scanty rations by way of contrast) e. Mission (1) Nation, group, or person attacked (2) Relation to previous items with the same or related missions (3) Particular psychological approach used in this instance (such as wedge-driving between groups, or between people and leaders, or between armed services; or demoralization of audience in general; or decrease of listeners' faith in the news) (4) Known or probable connection with originator's propaganda plan or strategy Figure 26: Religious Black.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

It is for the purpose of aiding her in ministering to the wants of her aged parents, and in the hope of securing to them the little home which they are in danger of losing from inability to pay the whole amount due—which amount was partly paid when our heroine left them to throw herself into the work of aiding our suffering soldiers—that this little account, drawn from her by persevering endeavor, is given to the friends of humanity.
— from Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman by Sarah H. (Sarah Hopkins) Bradford

The entire process of the development of living forms is guided by this principle.
— from On Germinal Selection as a Source of Definite Variation by August Weismann

It remains yet in the order of logic, though not of history, to show that among these solid destructible particles, there really do exist germs capable of giving rise to the development of living forms in suitable menstrua.
— from Discourses: Biological & Geological Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley

On a northern slope the buds usually remain dormant until the danger of late frosts is over.
— from Nature's Serial Story by Edward Payson Roe

"Fool" and "lawless one" come to their foolish and wicked conclusions there (Ps. xiv. 1); and what else than "folly" could be expected in hearkening to that which is "deceitful above all things"—what else than lawlessness in taking counsel with that which is "desperately wicked"? Take not, then, for thy counselor "thine own heart," when divine love has placed infinite wisdom and knowledge at the disposal of lowly faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, "who of God is made unto us wisdom," and "in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
— from Old Groans and New Songs Being Meditations on the Book of Ecclesiastes by Frederick Charles Jennings

d. Before the book is out he must have grown to ten times the weight that we dream of looking for in either of them.
— from The Craft of Fiction by Percy Lubbock