The balance was re-adjusted later on by the labours of the anatomical school of Alexandria, which, under the aegis of the enlightened Ptolemies, arose in the 3rd century B.C. Two prominent exponents of anatomy belonging to this school were Herophilus and Erasistratus, the latter of whom we shall frequently meet with in the following pages ( v. p. 95 et seq. ).
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

Par contre, peut-être si, à la manière d'Europe 1 grande époque, on lui offrait un décodage de l'info façon "Pas vu à la télé", soit quelques commentaires acides des communiqués de presse qu'il entend en direct live, peut-être prendrait-il le temps, le soir, de se brancher pour charger ça.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Rules for Planting Various Plants
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

So your grave, middle-aged family practitioner vanishes into thin air, my dear Watson, and there emerges a young fellow under thirty, amiable, unambitious, absent-minded, and the possessor of a favourite dog, which I should describe roughly as being larger than a terrier and smaller than a mastiff.”
— from The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

but this may be a very good way of accounting for what we frequently see, to wit, that dull Fellows prove very good Men of Business.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

They were quoting from a memorandum submitted by him to General Merritt at Merritt’s request, made at Manila and dated August 29th, the day General Merritt sailed away from Manila bound for Paris via the Suez Canal.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

Gambling houses had disappeared from public view.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

Reciprocally, the happiness of the wicked also offends us much more than the misfortune of the good man, because we find in it a double contradiction: in the first place vice itself, and, in the second place, the recompense of vice.
— from Aesthetical Essays of Friedrich Schiller by Friedrich Schiller

The family plate, valued at fifteen thousand dollars, was stored in a chest in a room on the ground-floor of the house, which had for its occupants, during four months of the year, two or three negro servants.
— from Voyage of the Paper Canoe A Geographical Journey of 2500 Miles, from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico, During the Years 1874-5 by Nathaniel H. (Nathaniel Holmes) Bishop

Yet, while both were in favor at the South, neither Pierce nor Douglas was likely to secure the full party vote at the North.
— from Stephen A. Douglas: A Study in American Politics by Allen Johnson

What wrongs the Oppressor suffered, these we know; These have found piteous voice in song and prose; But for the Oppressed, their darkness and their woe, Their grinding centuries,—what Muse had those?
— from Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole by James Russell Lowell

The finished product varies in thickness from three-quarters of an inch to three inches and is as soft and pliable as cloth, but too heavy for exportation, consequently few come to Western markets.
— from The Practical Book of Oriental Rugs by G. Griffin (George Griffin) Lewis

But the good luck of the party did not end here; for on the very night of their arrival a small Spanish coasting craft of about seventy tons was sighted by the light of the full moon, becalmed in the offing; and manning four fishing canoes with the forty Peruvian volunteers, Dick and Phil paddled off and took her without the slightest difficulty, towing her safely into the bay before sunrise, where they brought her to an anchor.
— from Two Gallant Sons of Devon: A Tale of the Days of Queen Bess by Harry Collingwood

The Fairies proved very kind to him, and when they heard his story, they undertook [ 103 ] to help him to learn his lessons, so that in course of time he acquired a considerable knowledge of the classics.
— from Folk-Lore of West and Mid-Wales by Jonathan Ceredig Davies

And being no stranger to the art of war, I gave him a description of cannons, culverins, muskets, carabines, pistols, bullets, powder, swords, bayonets, battles, sieges, retreats, attacks, undermines, countermines, bombardments, sea fights, ships sunk with a thousand men, twenty thousand killed on each side, dying groans, limbs flying in the air, smoke, noise, confusion, trampling to death under horses’ feet, flight, pursuit, victory; fields strewed with carcases, left for food to dogs and wolves and birds of prey; plundering, stripping, ravishing, burning, and destroying.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

She noted the change, and in a fierce, passionate voice, almost of terror, cried: "Jack, you are mine, you have always been mine!
— from When Dreams Come True by Ritter Brown

Various interpretations and helpful comments of other kinds may be found on the following pages: Volume I, page 95.
— from Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10: The Guide by Charles Herbert Sylvester