Later, all their faculties are exercised in determining the corrections to be made to the sights of their guns as regards range and deflection, so as to hit the enemy, and in giving the orders to fire.
— from The Battle of the Falkland Islands, Before and After by Henry Edmund Harvey Spencer-Cooper

Relatively tense, strained attention is generally characterized by more vigorous bodily accompaniments than is low-level, gentle, and relatively relaxed attention (drowsiness, for instance); but both agree, so long as their progress is free and unimpeded, in relative regularity of bodily functions.
— from Sex and Society: Studies in the Social Psychology of Sex by William Isaac Thomas

A knowledge of the ideas of the ancient Greeks and Romans, revealed and developed in their literature, and tested in the realities of their life.
— from College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College by Paul Klapper