| With one doubtful exception—an Indian fanatic attached to an embassy sent by king Porus to Augustus, who astonished the 156 Greeks and Romans by burning himself alive at Athens
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

—H. C.] Persian Kurdistan, in modern as in mediaeval times, extends south beyond Kermanshah to the immediate border of Polo's next kingdom, viz.: III.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

But having regard to the education of youth, to the innocence of children, to the sensibilities of women, to the decencies of society, Plato and the world in general are not wrong in insisting that some of the worst vices, if they must exist, should be kept out of sight; this, though only a second-best rule, is a support to the weakness of human nature.
— from Laws by Plato

This commissary was a man of very repulsive mien, with a pointed nose, with yellow and salient cheek bones, with eyes small but keen and penetrating, and an expression of countenance resembling at once the polecat and the fox.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

This question presents no difficulty, so long as the will of all the persons implicated remains unaltered; but since that will may change, it is often necessary, even in things in which they alone are concerned, that they should enter into engagements with one another; and when they do, it is fit, as a general rule, that those engagements should be kept.
— from On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

When he returned, Frode bad him relate what he had discovered, and he said that he had seen six kings each with his fleet; and that each of these fleets contained five thousand ships, each ship being known to hold three hundred rowers.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

In May, 1903, I was sent to the province of Surigao to try some cases arising out of what has ever since been known in that out-of-the-way region as “the affair of March 23d” (1903).
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

bisceopstōl m. episcopal see, bishopric , KC.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

The chariots and horse, therefore, became entangled amidst the inequalities of the ground, and the thick ranks of the Romans; and, no longer able to wheel and career as upon the open plain, gave not the least appearance of an equestrian skirmish: but, keeping their footing with difficulty on the declivity, were pushed off, and scattered in disorder over the field.
— from The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus by Cornelius Tacitus

At the bar, English or Irish: exemplars, Seymour Bushe, K. C., Rufus Isaacs, K. C.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

The only suggestion I ventured to offer was, that as the Government possessed in the department of the {152} Registrar-General a copy, made by English workmen, of the Swedish Difference Engine, that it should be exhibited by the side of mine: and that both the Engines should be kept constantly working with a very slow motion.
— from Passages from the Life of a Philosopher by Charles Babbage

What the men endure should be known at home."
— from New Zealanders at Gallipoli by Fred Waite

The Queen-Dowager was now quite as anxious to [Pg 233] get Matilda out of Denmark as she was to go, and to this end agreed to almost everything suggested by Keith, and in some respects even went beyond his suggestions.
— from A Queen of Tears, vol. 2 of 2 Caroline Matilda, Queen of Denmark and Norway and Princess of Great Britain and Ireland by W. H. (William Henry) Wilkins

But to the gods I hold it grateful that their handiwork And sacred edicts should be known to men.
— from Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars by Lucan

De Aar lies in the centre of a large plain, shut in on every side by kopjes.
— from With Methuen's Column on an Ambulance Train by Ernest Nathaniel Bennett

(The opposite edge should be kept perfectly straight during this and the following operations.)
— from Forge Work by William L. (William Lewis) Ilgen

The son, educated under his father's eye as legitimate, was called Prince de Vaudemont, and by that name has ever since been known.
— from Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete by Various

If I have dwelt upon these events hitherto with great particularity, it is that there might be a record of all that passed and that the devotion of this seaman Goddard, a yeoman of England, should be known to all men.
— from In Search of Mademoiselle by George Gibbs

TOOLS Folders Several binder's bone folders, costing fifteen cents each, should be kept in the binding department.
— from Library Bookbinding by Arthur Low Bailey