On the Capitol blood is reported to have issued for three days from the altar of Jupiter, together with honey on one day, and milk on a second—if anybody can believe it: and in [Pg 129] the Forum a bronze statue of Victory set upon a stone pedestal was found standing upon the ground below, without any one's having moved it; and, as it happened, it was facing in that direction from which the Gauls were already approaching.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

Why should there not be some new force, still unknown to us, which....” “When electricity was discovered,” Levin interrupted hurriedly, “it was only the phenomenon that was discovered, and it was unknown from what it proceeded and what were its effects, and ages passed before its applications were conceived.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

SYN: Foreign, strange, undomesticated, inappropriate, irrelevant, impertinent.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

William G. Sumner, in his book Folkways , worked through the ethnological data and made it available for sociological use.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

"But we are told that here the seasons are good; and wilt thou, farmer, sell us corn?
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

Why do I feel so uncomfortable when I see a lawyer or a Latin master or a member of the Zemstvo?
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The Guillotine is shifted, then again shifted; finally set up at the remote extremity of the South-East: ( Montgaillard, iv. 237. )
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

] Note 64 ( return ) [ Licet illa Imperatrix Graeca sibi et aliis fuisset satis utilis, et optima, &c., is the preamble of an inimical writer, apud Pagi, tom. iv.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Callicrates at the same time secured a party in his favour, during his year of office B.C. 179, by restoring the Spartan and Messenian exiles; in return for which the former set up his statue at Olympia, the base of which is preserved.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

Some hidden factory sent up a yellow glare, that lit for a moment the waters lapping oilily against timbers.
— from Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane

This riding dress consisted of a huge felt hat, both tall and broad, and generally ornamented with a plume of three great feathers sticking up in front.
— from The Aldine, Vol. 5, No. 1., January, 1872 A Typographic Art Journal by Various

She had been five days out, with fair skies and smooth seas, and every prospect of a prosperous and speedy voyage, when that disastrous fire stole upon her like a thief in the night, and wrapped her noble and majestic form in a winding sheet of flame.
— from Guy Kenmore's Wife, and The Rose and the Lily by Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.

“Gentleman Craig has strange views about most things; he believes in Darwin, and a deal that isn’t Darwin; but he says kangaroos first got or acquired their monster hindlegs, and their sturdy tails, from sitting up looking over the high grass, and cropping the leaves of bushes.
— from From Squire to Squatter: A Tale of the Old Land and the New by Gordon Stables

Here the Stauntons and Florella struck up the swords of the combatants by a rush of questions as to their Yorkshire acquaintances, while Constancy could have bitten out her tongue as she recalled the commonplace feminine spite of her retort on Godfrey.
— from Waynflete by Christabel R. (Christabel Rose) Coleridge

—Evidence for intergradation of Hyla microcephala with H. underwoodi is provided by four specimens [USC 818 (2), 6081-2] from 6.1 kilometers northeast of the mouth of the Río Tarcoles, and nine specimens [USC 8254 (2), 8255, 8256 (4), 8258 (2)] from Parrita, both in Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica.
— from Middle American Frogs of the Hyla microcephala Group by William Edward Duellman

The printing press was finally set up, but not without heavy, unexpected expenses, for Folgueras, who pretended he was furnished with all that was necessary, had nothing at all, and they had to send to Madrid for sets of type, have type galleys made, buy tables, etc., etc.
— from The Fourth Estate, vol. 1 by Armando Palacio Valdés

Civil power is, in its own nature, a limited power; as it arose at first from social union, so it is limited by the ends and purposes of such union, whether it is exercised, as it is in democracies, by the body of the people, or, as it is in monarchies, by one single person.
— from Trial of the Officers and Crew of the Privateer Savannah, on the Charge of Piracy, in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York by A. F. (Adolphus Frederick) Warburton

So in silence they glided on with the green fire-stones blinking overhead and the flaming floors smoldering under their feet, and it seemed to Valeria as if they fled through hell, guided by a dark-faced, lank-haired goblin.
— from Red Nails by Robert E. (Robert Ervin) Howard

With great care he rubbed the edge of the shell back and forth upon the flat stone until the soft edge was quite fine and sharp.
— from Jungle Tales of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs