Also in some cases he appeared to praise or censure the movement of the foot quite as much as the rhythm; or perhaps a combination of the two; for I am not certain what he meant.
— from The Republic by Plato

37 Also in some cases he appeared to praise or censure the movement of the foot quite as much as the rhythm; or perhaps a combination of the two; for I am not certain what he meant.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

For I am not conscious to myself that I am wise, either much or little.
— from Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates by Plato

His Mediterranean command embraced many duties and cares; but amid and dominating them all, he saw clearly the Toulon fleet as the controlling factor there, and an important factor in any naval combination of the Emperor.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

They were all about him and the fire, in a narrow circle, and he could see them plainly in the firelight lying down, sitting up, crawling forward on their bellies, or slinking back and forth.
— from White Fang by Jack London

In an instant they found themselves in a little harbor, formed in a natural creek; the boat grounded on the fine sand.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

I thank St. Francis for having given me the company of a good Christian, who is here for reasons of which I desire to know nothing, for I am not curious.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

again, so crumpled and underscored were its pages and paragraphs; but, feeling as a tender parent might on being asked to cut off her baby's legs in order that it might fit into a new cradle, she looked at the marked passages, and was surprised to find that all the moral reflections—which she had carefully put in as ballast for much romance—had been stricken out.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

And this instinct is sure to be very much alive, more than ever alive, when boys and girls find themselves removed from the family influence, amid new conditions and new companions of the school.
— from Heart and Soul by Maveric Post by Victor Mapes

To-day, as then, the fountain of His pity and healing power is full, after thousands have drawn from it, and no crowd of suppliants bars our way to His heart or His hands.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. Luke by Alexander Maclaren

"You are surprised to hear me quote Scripture, and well you may be: but that same book of Ecclesiastes is a very old favourite with me; for I am no Christian, but a worlding, if ever there was one.
— from Two Years Ago, Volume I by Charles Kingsley

What, then, is the occasion and what the warrant for transforming perceived succession in time into causal succession, for substituting must for is , for interpreting the observed connection of fact into a necessary connection which always eludes observation?
— from History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg

I am not afraid to fight; I am no coward!
— from The Bath Keepers; Or, Paris in Those Days, v.1 (Novels of Paul de Kock Volume VII) by Paul de Kock

Each made a feint of holding his glass against the opaque window while filling it, although nothing could be seen.
— from A First Family of Tasajara by Bret Harte

The majority of the region in the isthmus is drained by the Río Coatzacoalcos, which flows in a northerly course to the Gulf of Mexico.
— from A Distributional Study of the Amphibians of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, México by William Edward Duellman

I am here to help you in your need, for I am not content to see so good a knight come to harm and disgrace."
— from Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 14 (of 15), King Arthur (2) by Malory, Thomas, Sir