Education, they say, is the Latin for leading out or drawing out the dormant faculties of each person.
— from What's Wrong with the World by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

In vocabulary it is chiefly remarkable for the large number of popular words which it contains, and which from lack of opportunity do not appear elsewhere.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

That all this good of evil shall produce, And evil turn to good; more wonderful 470 Then that which by creation first brought forth Light out of darkness!
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

That all this good of evil shall produce, And evil turn to good; more wonderful Then that which by creation first brought forth Light out of darkness!
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

There are no words to describe her save the old ones that have served so often to picture the bygone heroine of romance and the fair lady of our dreams.
— from The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin

That all this good of evil shall produce, And evil turn to good; more wonderful Than that which by creation first brought forth Light out of darkness!
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

This feast, which is known by different names, is the most important of Dyak feasts, and lasts three days, whereas other feasts last only one day.
— from Seventeen Years Among the Sea Dyaks of Borneo A Record of Intimate Association with the Natives of the Bornean Jungles by Edwin Herbert Gomes

I thought I would be far away in foreign lands or on distant seas, and so I would not hear the whispering, nor see the pointing of the fingers.
— from Garthowen A Story of a Welsh Homestead by Allen Raine

Magician or witch, voluptuous, destroying Venus or cold and ungrasped Helen, what was the antique to the art born of the Middle Ages and developed during the Renaissance? Was the relation between them that of tuition, cool and abstract, or of fruitful lore, or of deluding and damning example?
— from The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 by Various

He mingles promises with harmless threats , and repeats , in exquisite verses , the names of the famous lovers of old days , Milanion and Endymion .
— from Theocritus, Bion and Moschus, Rendered into English Prose by of Phlossa near Smyrna Bion

As in practice it might be impossible to fully attain those objects, preparation was made to get rid of the salt from such water as might be required as feed-water to make good the loss from leakage or other defects in the working of marine steam-engines.
— from Life of Richard Trevithick, with an Account of His Inventions. Volume 2 (of 2) by Francis Trevithick

[104] From data obtained from Pablo Moreno, and a letter of the Jesuit Don Domingo, dated 1805, we can give the following list of objects destroyed by Landa: 5,000 idols of various form and dimensions; 13 huge stones, which were used as altars; 22 smaller, of various shapes; 27 manuscripts on deer skins; 197 of all shapes and sizes.
— from The Ancient Cities of the New World Being Travels and Explorations in Mexico and Central America From 1857-1882 by Désiré Charnay

As he advanced, Oliver began to take note of the places he had passed on the way down, and so much had he seen and thought during his sojourn underground, that, when he reached the level where he first came upon the noisy kibbles, and made acquaintance with the labouring pump-rod, he almost hailed the spot as an old familiar landmark of other days!
— from Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

This important causal nexus finds its simplest expression in “the fundamental law of organic development,” the content and purport of which we have fully considered in the first chapter.
— from The Evolution of Man by Ernst Haeckel

[Footnote: Later observations of Darwin and other naturalists have greatly raised former estimates of the importance of insect life in the fecundation of plants, and among other remarkable discoveries it has been found that, in many cases at least, insects are necessary even to monoecious vegetables, because the male flower does not impregnate the female growing on the same stem, and the latter can be fecundated only by pollen supplied to it by insects from another plant of the same species.
— from The Earth as Modified by Human Action by George P. (George Perkins) Marsh