This name, so Vollmer claims, has been added to the book by medieval scholars without any reason except conjecture for such action. — from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius
Our immense possessions in every kingdom of Europe, our high military fame, which brings within our circle the flower of chivalry from every Christian clime—these are dedicated to ends of which our pious founders little dreamed, and which are equally concealed from such weak spirits as embrace our Order on the ancient principles, and whose superstition makes them our passive tools. — from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott
Thor’s struggle against Hrungnir is a parallel to the fight between Hercules and Cacus or Antæus; while Groa is evidently Ceres, for she, too, mourns for her absent child Orvandil (Proserpine), and breaks out into a song of joy when she hears that it will return. — from Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber
easily carried for several
No iron work or nails are employed in their construction; and they are so light, that the common-sized ones are easily carried for several miles by a man of moderate strength. — from The Conquest of Canada, Vol. 2 by George Warburton
It is summed up in the concluding paragraph of the "Origin" ("Origin of Species" (6th edition), page 429.):—"It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent upon each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us. — from Darwin and Modern Science by A. C. (Albert Charles) Seward
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establishment copied from some
A special feature of the establishment, copied from some of the Magdalen institutions in France, was the reception—particularly in the summer season—of sick and delicate children, many of them babes in arms, from the neighbouring city. — from The Martyrdom of Madeline by Robert Williams Buchanan
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