Open your abodes, and, each obstacle removed, give full rein to your streams.”
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

CHARLES SHANNON A splendid example of Rubens' love of rich, full forms.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

He gives no encouragement to individual enthusiasm; 'the establishment of religion could only be the work of a mighty intellect.'
— from Laws by Plato

Esta circunstancia asegura la validez del diploma en todo el territorio de la república, y, en ciertos casos, como ocurre en Guatemala, los títulos son aceptados en otras repúblicas.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

In 1904 Peiper and Eichloff attempted to produce scurvy in dogs by means of a diet composed exclusively of raw or of sterilized milk.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

We have seen that in the Malay Peninsula and Java the first ears of rice are taken to represent either the Soul of the Rice or the Rice-bride and the Rice-bridegroom.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

H2 anchor CHAPTER 1 I ntroduces all the Rest There once lived, in a sequestered part of the county of Devonshire, one Mr. Godfrey Nickleby: a worthy gentleman, who, taking it into his head rather late in life that he must get married, and not being young enough or rich enough to aspire to the hand of a lady of fortune, had wedded an old flame out of mere attachment, who in her turn had taken him for the same reason.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Or if a stranger kill a citizen or a citizen a stranger in self-defence, let him be free from guilt in like manner; and so in the case of a slave who has killed a slave; but if a slave have killed a freeman in self-defence, let him be subject to the same law as he who has killed a father; and let the law about the remission of penalties in the case of parricide apply equally to every other remission.
— from Laws by Plato

9. P - B 5 ch K - Q 2 10. P - Q 4 P - B 4 Page 116 {116} Apparently very strong, since it forces the exchange of Rooks because of the threat R - R 3; but in reality it leads to nothing.
— from Chess Fundamentals by José Raúl Capablanca

then I shall be so happy!—" was her exclamation of rejoicing.
— from Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia by William Gilmore Simms

One of the deplorable adjuncts of this procedure is that the editor often realizes the emptiness of this technically correct story, and his own best literary judgment spurns it.
— from Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories by H. G. (Harrison Griswold) Dwight

By this act, the crown, without the concurrence either of the parliament, or even of the convocation, was vested with the whole spiritual power; might repress all heresies, might establish or repeal all canons, might alter every point of discipline, and might ordain or abolish any religious rite or ceremony,[**] * Camden, p. 372.
— from The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I. by David Hume

[xv] LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Monsignor the Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod Frontispiece TO FACE PAGE Le Palais Anglais 4 H.I.M. The Empress of Russia 6 H.I.M. Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia 12 Marsanka 28 Samara 30 On the Volga 32 Siberian Home 34 A Siberian Town 36 Railway Church Service 38 M. de Plehve 40 Irkutsk 48 Lake Baikal 52 The Station of Manchury 60 Tsi-Tsi-Kar 68 Kharbin 70 A Street in Kharbin 76 From Mukden Flats on to the Town 80 The Entrance to the Imperial Tombs 104 General Kuropatkin 124 The Legation Quarter 152 Entrance to the Forbidden City 158 Triumphal Arch 162 The Temple of Heaven 172 The Empress Dowager of China 184 The Summer Palace 188 Seoul 240 The Emperor's Throne in the Old Palace 248 The Imperial Library in Seoul 252 The Throne Room 268 The Emperor of Korea 270 The State Examination Hall at Pekin 292 Shrines at Nikko 296 Delightful Scenery 298 Street in Japan 300 The Tokaïdo 304 A Typical Nippon Building 312 Marshal Oyama 322 On the Yang-Tze-Kiang 340 In the Flowery Land 344 Count Witte 384 INTRODUCTION
— from Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod by Péter Vay

She would confess this to you at luncheon, and then start for the same church in the afternoon, with an edifying but rather comic expression of resignation.
— from Sword and Gown: A Novel by George A. (George Alfred) Lawrence

For afterwards the Emperors of Rome received the same honor; as we read of Caligula, that at his reception to the Empire, he was carried from Misenum to Rome, in the midst of a throng of People, the wayes beset with Altars, and
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

[Footnote 411: He might have overthrown his affairs by this preposterous proceeding, which was the effect of religious malice, not zeal.--Astl.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 by Robert Kerr

THE EARL OF RIPON, VISCOUNT GODERICH, Lord Privy Seal &c. &c. &c. MY LORD, The completion of this Work affords me the opportunity I have long desired of thanking your Lordship thus publicly, for the kindness with which you acceded to my request to be permitted to dedicate it to you.
— from Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia — Volume I by Charles Sturt