He says that the leaves are together three inches thick in each volume, and that every cover is exactly one-eighth of an inch thick, and he asks how long a tunnel had the industrious worm to bore in preparing his new tube railway.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

616 From every Vánar at the close Of that imperial rite arose Shouts of glad triumph, loud and long Repeated by the high-souled throng.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Minutes—those minutes when she sent for him and he held her moist hand, that would squeeze his hand with extraordinary violence and then push it away—seemed to him hours, and hours seemed to him minutes.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Never, in your imagination, confound that principle with the surrounding earthen vessel and the little organs that are kneaded on to it.
— from The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus A new rendering based on the Foulis translation of 1742 by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

But, then, the radicalness of these differences, which was excessive; the dirt; the soiled and torn condition of the paper, so inconsistent with the true methodical habits of D—, and so suggestive of a design to delude the beholder into an idea of the worthlessness of the document; these things, together with the hyper-obtrusive situation of this document, full in the view of every visiter, and thus exactly in accordance with the conclusions to which I had previously arrived; these things, I say, were strongly corroborative of suspicion, in one who came with the intention to suspect.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

off, this Plain appears extensive, great appearance of a Storm from the North W. this evening verry agreeable the wind Still from the South- from the Osagies Nation with twenty odd of the Natives or chiefs of the Nation with him sailed dowen the Mississippi bound to St Louis & 3 guns fired showers of rain Showers of Rain all that night H2 anchor [Clark, July 13, 1804] July 13th Friday 1804 Set out at Sun rise, and prosd.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

We must ask ourselves, Why did the author of these legends pitch upon Orestes and Hippolytus in order to explain Virbius and the King of the Wood?
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

" I explained to her that we must walk a little further to get to a cab-stand, unless we were fortunate enough to meet with an empty vehicle; and then tried to resume the subject of Cumberland.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

We have the same semi-circular arches as in the Raphael, but not symmetrically placed, and their lines everywhere varied, and their calm effect destroyed by the flickering lights playing about them.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

" Earl Valthiof, and the people who escaped, fled up to the castle of York; and there the greatest loss of men had been.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

The effective feature of a place the entire contents of which might have been extravagantly valued at twenty-five dollars was the exquisite harmony of colors.
— from Mlle. Fouchette: A Novel of French Life by Charles Theodore Murray

In many fishes, such as the scaled carp, for example, Marsching's gold paint or Japanese gold can be used directly on the scales ( after the entire fish has had a thin coat of Hendley's enamel varnish), and the silver paint can be used to good effect in edging the scales.
— from Taxidermy and Zoological Collecting A Complete Handbook for the Amateur Taxidermist, Collector, Osteologist, Museum-Builder, Sportsman, and Traveller by W. J. (William Jacob) Holland

PER VOL., $1.50 THE EARLIER VOLUMES ARE THE STORY OF GREECE.
— from The Story of Switzerland by Lina Hug

Neither the officers, seamen, nor other persons employed on any such steamship or other vessel shall visit or frequent any part of the vessel provided or assigned to the use of such passengers, except by the direction or permission of the master of such vessel first made or given for such purpose; and every officer, seaman, or other person employed on board of such vessel who shall violate the provisions {123} of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and may be fined not exceeding one hundred dollars, and be imprisoned not exceeding twenty days, for each violation; and the master of such vessel who directs or permits any officer, seaman, or other person employed on board the vessel to visit or frequent any part of the vessel provided for or assigned to the use of such passengers, or the compartments or spaces occupied by such passengers, except for the purpose of doing or performing some necessary act or duty as an officer, seaman, or other person employed on board of the vessel, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and may be fined not more than one hundred dollars for each time he directs or permits the provisions of this section to be violated.
— from The Men on Deck: Master, Mates and Crew, Their Duties and Responsibilities by Felix Riesenberg

Even Vinx admits the event has justified me.
— from Far to Seek A Romance of England and India by Maud Diver

In the same spirit of dissatisfaction with all imperfect accomplishment, he left directions in his will that his executors, Varius and Tucca, should publish nothing but what had been already edited by him.
— from The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by W. Y. (William Young) Sellar

The high-pressure steam from Trevithick's new boilers was turned under the [Pg 104] pole for the up-stroke, after which it was expanded in the old and much larger cylinder on the top of the piston causing the down-stroke; it then, by its passage through the equilibrium valve, allowed the piston in the large cylinder to make its up-stroke, by equalizing the pressure of steam on its top and bottom, while a fresh supply of strong steam from the boiler admitted under the pole gave power to the up-stroke; and finally, the comparatively low-pressure steam under the large piston passed to the condenser and air-pump to form a vacuum for the down-stroke, as in the Watt engine.
— from Life of Richard Trevithick, with an Account of His Inventions. Volume 2 (of 2) by Francis Trevithick

As the pirate and the robber pass by and spare the empty vessels, and the poor, but watch for those that return laden with treasure; so this malignant foe resisted Joshua at the throne of grace, sifted Peter as he descended from the mount, and sent his messenger to buffet Paul when he had been caught up into the third heavens.
— from The Baptist Magazine, Vol. 27, 1835 by Various

Properly exercised and cared for, it may be developed to a remarkable degree; but there are cases, of course, where there is not enough voice at the start to warrant the aspirant making the sacrifices that I have made to reach my goal.
— from Great Singers on the Art of Singing Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists by James Francis Cooke

Still climbing upward the rickshaw passed the last of the outlying European villas and turned down a side road where there were no houses.
— from The Shadow of the East by E. M. (Edith Maude) Hull