It was worth while to controvert the positions of Ephorus, Apollodorus however disregards all this, and adds a seventeenth to the sixteen nations, namely, the Galatians; although it is well to mention this, yet it is not required in a discussion of what Ephorus relates or omits; Apollodorus has assigned as the reason of the omission, that all these nations settled in the peninsula subsequently to the time of Ephorus.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

The tempest began to blow the very evening of the day on which Erebus received this intelligence.
— from The Knight of Malta by Eugène Sue

The Dominican order were especially rich in miniature painters after Giovanni Dominici had given an impulse to this branch of art.
— from Lorenzo de' Medici, the Magnificent (vol. 2 of 2) by Alfred von Reumont

"All peoples that on earth do dwell" have here their representatives, gathered by a divine ordering within easy reach of the gospel.
— from Aliens or Americans? by Howard B. (Howard Benjamin) Grose

He did not descend by the track to the chimney, as the creeping down of the latter could be effected in absolute darkness only with extreme risk; but he bent his way over the down skirting the crescent indentation of the cove to the donkey-path, which was now, as he knew, unwatched.
— from In the Roar of the Sea by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

Life preservers were dragged out within easy reach, the sweepmen replaced their boots with rubber-soled canvas ties and cleared their platform of every nail and splinter.
— from The Man from the Bitter Roots by Caroline Lockhart

Only, as it typo happened, the tea-chests which were spilt in Boston Harbour were finished so far as the brewing of tea was concerned, while the kegs and firkins dropped overboard were easily recoverable by such as were in the secret.
— from The Dew of Their Youth by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

Mr. Richey, I have in hand here a document which purports to be a report of an interview of you by FBI Agents Haley and Madland on December 4, 1963, which I have marked for identification as follows: “Fort Worth, Texas, April 15, 1964, Exhibit 5316, deposition of Warren E. Richey,” and I have signed my name on it.
— from Warren Commission (13 of 26): Hearings Vol. XIII (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

The great complexity of this portion of the subject; the variety of forces operating to produce the tides, the sun, the moon, the earth's rotation, etc.; and the number of retarding and confusing elements, friction, interposed land masses, river [Pg 706] currents, air movements, depth of water, etc., render these theories practically valueless for use in tidal calculations.
— from Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, March 1899 Volume LIV, No. 5, March 1899 by Various