Then, after laying the nucleus, as above described, construct the floor of large cubes cut about two digits each way, and let it have an inclination of two digits for every ten feet.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

The fact of the forms of life changing simultaneously, in the above large sense, at distant parts of the world, has greatly struck those admirable observers, MM. de Verneuil and d'Archiac.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

Slowly the fact of life came back to him.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

Wherein they are like unto the poor rogues of a village that are busy in stirring up and scraping in the ordure and filth of little children, in the season of cherries and guinds, and that only to find the kernels, that they may sell them to the druggists to make thereof pomander oil.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Low were the whispers, manifold the rumours: Some said he had been poison'd by Potemkin; Others talk'd learnedly of certain tumours, Exhaustion, or disorders of the same kin; Some said 't was a concoction of the humours, Which with the blood too readily will claim kin; Others again were ready to maintain, ''T was only the fatigue of last campaign.'
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

The change consisted in the appearance of strange faces of low caste, rather than in the disappearance of the high caste, chiselled, and otherwise beautified and beautifying features of Monseigneur.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

—Palpation of the body will often reveal distinct lesion of the bones, such as fractures, either ununited or healed with the formation of large calluses; subperiosteal hemorrhages, especially of the distal end of the femur or of the tibia, may be evident to the eye as well as to the touch.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

He being at Philadelphia, on his retreat, or rather flight, I apply'd to him for the discharge of the servants of three poor farmers of Lancaster county that he had enlisted, reminding him of the late general's orders on that head.
— from Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

The festival of Liber, called the Liberalia, was celebrated on the 17th of March.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

From our last conversation I understood you had no objection to the journey, except that of furnishing me with money; for it was your pleasure to remind me that a man so idle, as you suppose I am, may be or go any where, without the world suffering the least loss.
— from Anna St. Ives by Thomas Holcroft

We know that lightning does not come out of the east and shine even unto the west, because flashes of lightning come from all directions, and more often from the west than from the east.
— from The Harp of God: Proof Conclusive That Millions Now Living Will Never Die by J. F. (Joseph Franklin) Rutherford

The force of language consists in raising complete images [32] ; which cannot be done till the reader, forgetting himself, be transported as by magic into the very place and time of the important action, and be converted, as it were, into a real spectator, beholding every thing that passes.
— from Elements of Criticism, Volume III. by Kames, Henry Home, Lord

Richard Thomson, in Tales of an Antiquary , gives a very good word-picture of a stage coach: “Stage coaches were constructed principally of a dull black leather, thickly studded by way of ornament with broad black head nails tracing out the panels, in the upper tier of which were four oval windows with heavy red wooden frames or leathern curtains.
— from Jane Austen and Her Times by G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton

For the reduction of the French fortress on Lake Corlaer, or Champlain, the largest army ever gathered on the continent was encamped on the shores of Lake George.
— from Sir William Johnson and the Six Nations by William Elliot Griffis

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— from The American Missionary — Volume 32, No. 08, August, 1878 by Various

About a year after my going to Rotterdam, the charge of minister to the congregation of English merchants in that city fell vacant, by the cession of Master Richard Chalfont, some time Fellow of Lincoln College, by whose good word, many of the congregation also favouring, I had from the Committee the promise of the succession, if only I could obtain Holy Orders.
— from With the King at Oxford: A Tale of the Great Rebellion by Alfred John Church

Memorials to deceased Freemasons are perhaps the most frequent of late carvings, as in the sketch from Lydd in the Romney Marsh district.
— from In Search of Gravestones Old and Curious by W. T. (William Thomas) Vincent

This is surely an astonishing agreement when we consider the varied forms of living creatures.
— from The Doctrine of Evolution: Its Basis and Its Scope by Henry Edward Crampton

He coolly stroked the lovely hair of the ingénue, Miss Evelyn L'Ewysse, with one hand, leveled a revolver with the other, and made fearless jests the while, to the infinite excitement of the audience, especially of the hyah-hyah-hyahing negroes, whose faces, under the flicker of lowered calcium-carbide lights, made a segregated strip of yellow-black polka-dotted with white eye-balls.
— from The Trail of the Hawk: A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life by Sinclair Lewis