The scrimers of their nation He swore had neither motion, guard, nor eye, If you oppos’d them.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

In Georgia, Fort Scudder, on Frogtown creek, north of Dahlonega, in Lumpkin county; Fort Gilmer, near Ellijay, in Gilmer county; Fort Coosawatee, in Murray county; Fort Talking-rock, near Jasper, in Pickens county; Fort Buffington, near Canton, in Cherokee county.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

And now here they were, in great numbers, evidently indifferent to what he might think, evidently determined on some purpose of their own regarding him, and apparently well able to enforce their purpose.
— from Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Ortygia, nurse of Latona, iii. 11 . ——, grove near Ephesus, iii. 11 . ——, same as Delos, ii. 210 , 211 . ——, isl.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

They are usually given names ending in -ine , as morphine , quinine , aconitine , nicotine , caffeine , &c. Most alkaloids occur in plants, but some are formed by decomposition.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

Rather, we recognize more and more clearly that the essential nature of perversion does not consist in overstepping the sexual aim, nor in a substitution for the genitals, not even in the variety of objects, but simply in the exclusiveness with which these deviations are carried out and by means of which the sexual act that serves reproduction is pushed aside.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

A bloody diarrhœa may take the place of the constipation which is generally noted earlier in the disease.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

If there was any fault in either case, it was your own, in not giving notice, especially in the case of Atlanta, of your purpose to shell the town, which is usual in war among civilized nations.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Noctes insomnes traducendae, literis renunciandum, saepe gemendum, nonnunquam et illacrymandum sorti et conditioni tuae.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Reasoning can give no end, it can only arrange, elicit, suggest; emotion can [Pg 112] give no means, for it cannot classify or observe relations.
— from A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by Cora May Williams

THE CRISIS The Southern moderates in 1859 form one of those political groups, numerous enough in history, who at a crisis arrest our imagination because of the irony of their situation.
— from Abraham Lincoln and the Union: A Chronicle of the Embattled North by Nathaniel W. (Nathaniel Wright) Stephenson

In those cases alone, however, where our persevering and indefatigable student had given numerous examples in illustration of one and the same rule, I considered myself at liberty to make an omission or abridgment, in order that the work might not be swelled out to an unnecessary bulk.
— from The Harmonicon. Part the First by Various

Diametrically opposite to this gap another opening, of an avenue-like form, led out into the adjacent plain, so that the grove was in reality bisected by an open line, which separated it into two groves, nearly equal in extent.
— from The White Chief: A Legend of Northern Mexico by Mayne Reid

Picture to yourself the neighbouring hamlet all overblown with snow, and the inevitable village idiot, Serozha, who goes naked even in the coldest weather; the priest who does not play "preference" on a fast day, but writes denunciations to the starosta, a stupid, artful man, diplomat and beggar, speaking in a dreadful Petersburg accent.
— from A Slav Soul, and Other Stories by A. I. (Aleksandr Ivanovich) Kuprin

But he indicates here, with a new application of the words of Ennius, the aspiration to compose a great national epic in celebration of the exploits of Caesar:— temptanda via est, qua me quoque possim Tollere humo victorque virum volitare per ora 344 .
— from The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by W. Y. (William Young) Sellar

" Before the white people came to America there were no cows, but now they are raised in great numbers, especially in the eastern country.
— from An Alphabet of Quadrupeds Comprising descriptions of their appearance and habits by Anonymous