[349] to die upon, nor the Syrian sunshine.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

It usually fell to the lot of some one or other of them to wake the rest, the first being aroused by an alarm-clock; and, as Tess was the latest arrival, and they soon discovered that she could be depended upon not to sleep though the alarm as others did, this task was thrust most frequently upon her.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

In the second place, some eminent naturalists believe that a long course of domestication tends to eliminate sterility in the successive generations of hybrids, which were at first only slightly sterile; and if this be so, we surely ought not to expect to find sterility both appearing and disappearing under nearly the same conditions of life.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

But not even so could he move the Romans from their purpose: they employed their light-armed troops to repulse those who were actually attacking the palisade, but protecting themselves with their heavy shields against the javelins of the enemy, they remained drawn up near their standards without moving.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

If it be right and honest to be spoken or done, undervalue not thyself so much, as to be discouraged from it.
— from Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

In the second place, some eminent naturalists believe that a long course of domestication tends to eliminate sterility in the successive generations of hybrids which were at first only slightly sterile; and if this be so, we surely ought not to expect to find sterility both appearing and disappearing under nearly the same conditions of life.
— from On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. (2nd edition) by Charles Darwin

The cavalry inclined, after passing us, to their left, while we kept down towards the sea; and soon after, on ascending a small eminence, we got a view of the village of Old Patten, where we discovered about 10,000 or 12,000 of our army drawn up near the sea-beach.
— from Twenty-Five Years in the Rifle Brigade by William Surtees

Flaying of Saint Bartholomew, Rape of Europa, Rape of the Sabines, Piping and Amours of goat-footed Pan, Romulus suckled by the Wolf: all this, and much else of fabulous, distant, unimportant, not to say impossible, ugly and unworthy, shall pass without undue severity of criticism, in a Household of such opulence as ours, where much goes to waste, and where things are not on an earnest footing for this long while past!
— from History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 04 by Thomas Carlyle

The concept of a nova and then of its dying down, until now the sun was just as it had been when they left, was too much.
— from An Empty Bottle by Mari Wolf

In the same message, however, in which Lord Roberts expresses his high appreciation of the successes we have achieved, he directs us not to slacken our efforts for several days to come.
— from Two Years on Trek: Being Some Account of the Royal Sussex Regiment in South Africa by Louis Eugène Du Moulin

Drawn up near the station were a lot of guns and ammunition carts which had been taken from the Turks.
— from The Puppet Show of Memory by Maurice Baring

We pass from these examples in order to glance at a church whose age may now be deemed undisputed, namely, the small apsidal church or basilica which was uncovered in 1892 at Silchester ( Calleva Atrebatum ).
— from Byways in British Archaeology by Walter Johnson