The plan of Thucydides seems to have continued to be the model of historical narrative to the writers of Rome; but the circumstances of the times, aided perhaps by the splendid exertion of genius in other departments of literature, suggested a new resource, which promised not only to animate, but embellish the future productions of the historic Muse.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

It also happens that clans take their names from certain geographical irregularities or depressions of the land, from a certain ant-hill, etc.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

The expansion is usually greater in one direction of the paper than in the direction at right angles to it, and this is due to the fact that fibres have a greater ratio of expansion in the diameter than in the length.
— from The Manufacture of Paper With Illustrations, and a Bibliography of Works Relating to Cellulose and Paper-Making by R. W. (Robert Walter) Sindall

The new generation is often distrustful of the old."
— from The Side Of The Angels: A Novel by Basil King

In passing through a narrow gorge, I once drove one ahead of me from rapid to rapid, disturbing him four times in quick succession where he could not very well fly past me on account of the narrowness of the channel.
— from The Mountains of California by John Muir

If he was a great inventor or discoverer, or if he uttered great truths, these became the property of the world; but he should not endeavor, after he is dead, to rule the living by conditions attached to his gifts.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll

Sir Isaac Newton's observations on the prophecies of Daniel only show how little transcendent genius in one domain of inquiry can save a great thinker from absolute mistakes in another.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Daniel by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar

The "fair young god," Iacchos, or Dionysos, or Bacchus, was the son of Jupiter and Ceres, and accompanied the goddess in her search for Persephone.
— from The Eleusinian Mysteries and Rites by Dudley Wright

And there, among the lighter shipping, was the brig bound to the order of the gastaldo grande, with the yellow sails and device of the rising sun—with the gobbo in orange doublet on the masthead for good luck, and the gobbo on the deck to make it sure.
— from A Golden Book of Venice by Turnbull, Lawrence, Mrs.

'There is a general feeling in Ayrshire,' says Chambers, 'that The Holy Fair was attended with a good effect; for since its appearance the custom of resorting to the occasion in neighbouring parishes for the sake of holiday-making has been much abated and a great increase of decorous observance has taken place.'
— from Robert Burns by Gabriel Setoun

I think of you continuously--it is what devotees call habitual thought, such as one should have of God, if one did one's duty.
— from Women of Modern France (Illustrated) Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 7 (of 10) by Hugo P. (Hugo Paul) Thieme

Her whole time, with little intermission (except for prayer and reading of the Word of God) is occupied directly or indirectly about the Orphans.
— from A Narrative of Some of the Lord's Dealings with George Müller. Part 4 by George Müller