" Thus he counselled him, manifesting goodwill towards him; but Cambyses answered: "Dost thou venture to counsel me, who excellently well didst rule thine own country, and well didst counsel my father, bidding him pass over the river Araxes and go against the Massagetai, when they were willing to pass over into our land, and so didst utterly ruin thyself by ill government of thine own land, and didst utterly ruin Cyrus, who followed thy counsel.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

She brought his cigar and lighted it for him; she knew the effect of that manoeuvre, having practised it in former days upon Rawdon Crawley.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

The fact that race prejudice is due to, or is in some sense dependent upon, race competition is further manifest by a fact that Mr. Steiner has emphasized, namely, that prejudice against the Japanese is nowhere uniform throughout the United States.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

It grows naturally in many places of this land, as at Clare in Essex; also near unto Exeter in Devonshire; upon Rochester common in Kent; in Lancashire, and divers other places; but usually kept in gardens.
— 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

impute shame to, brand, post, stigmatize, vilify, defame, slur, cast a slur upon, hold up to shame, send to Coventry; tread under foot, trample under foot; show up, drag through the mire, heap dirt upon; reprehend &c. 932.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Hay una zona, que comprende Méjico, América Central y las Antillas, donde los Estados Unidos llevan a Europa la ventaja de la proximidad y de una relación comercial más estrecha.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

He noticed fine private carriages drawn up round corners, waiting for prosperous tradesmen; young men with tennis-bats in their hands, taking prodigiously long strides, eager to get a game of play before dusk; girls who went by twos and threes, chattering, laughing, making funny short quick steps of it, like as if on the dance to reach sweethearts and green lanes.
— from The Devil's Garden by W. B. (William Babington) Maxwell

Harry’s mouth drooped until Roy cut in with an indignant: “Don’t you mind him, Harry.
— from Harry's Island by Ralph Henry Barbour

Letters came and went, as they always do, until rumor came of a sore defeat to the colonials at Long Island; then the letters ceased.
— from Myths and Legends of Our Own Land — Complete by Charles M. (Charles Montgomery) Skinner

“The American Cambridge is a distinguished university,” returned Cecil.
— from The Three Brides by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

5).—The choice of inclined or vertical shaft is dependent upon relative cost of Page 64 construction, subsequent operation, and the useful life of the shaft, and these matters are largely governed by the degree of dip.
— from Principles of Mining: Valuation, Organization and Administration by Herbert Hoover

According to Mivart, the groundwork of science consists of truths which can not be obtained by reasoning, and can not depend for their certainty on any experiments or observations alone, since whatever truths depend upon reasoning can not be ultimate, but must be posterior to, and depend upon, the principles, observations, or experiments which show that it is indeed true, and upon which its acceptance thus depends.
— from Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, February 1899 Volume LIV, No. 4, February 1899 by Various

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— from McGuffey's Eclectic Spelling Book by Alexander H. (Alexander Hamilton) McGuffey