Patara was a city of Lycia, where Apollo gave oracular responses during six months of the year.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

Lastly Crevel, an imitator and grinder, utilized Grindot on rue des Saussaies, rue du Dauphin and rue Barbet-de-Jouy for his official and secret habitations.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

Generally, it was a brief Greek or Roman device, such as the Middle Ages knew so well how to formulate.—
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

p. 197) indulges his genius, or rather describes some more eloquent writer, in the description of Dijon; a castle, which already deserved the title of a city.
— 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

Rose delight of higher powers, Rose the joy of mortal men, Rose the pleasure of fine women, Rose the Graces' ornament, Rose Dione's sweet content.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

This action is so far under the command of the will, that it may be suspended, increased, or diminished in strength and frequency: but we can only suspend it for a very short time; and it goes on regularly during sleep, and in general, even when we are awake, without the intervention of the will; its continuation being always necessary, as we have already seen, to support life.
— from Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease by Thomas Garnett

3 Next come the two Kaira grants of the Gurjjara king Dadda Praśántarága dated Saṃ. 380 and Saṃ. 385 4 ; and the Saṅkheḍá grant of Raṇagraha dated Saṃ. 391 5 ; then the Kaira grant of the Chalukya king Vijayarája or Vijayavarman dated Saṃvatsara 394 6 ; then the Bagumrá grant of the Sendraka chief Nikumbhallaśakti 7 ; [ 56 ] Chapter VI.
— from History of Gujarát Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, Volume I, Part I. by James M. Campbell

This wheat growing on very moist soil was still green and growing vigorously, whilst this wheat growing on rather dry soil was yellow and ripe Now turn to what you have seen in your walks.
— from Lessons on Soil by Russell, Edward J. (Edward John), Sir

The record may show the other communications, I guess our record does show, but do you feel that you adequately were advised by the State Department as this case developed or by the CIA or other agencies that might have known about it?
— from Warren Commission (05 of 26): Hearings Vol. V (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

Raymond, grandson of Raymond de St. Gilles, was the reigning sovereign; and on Henrys reviving his wifes claim, this prince had recourse for protection to the King of France, who was so much concerned in policy to prevent the farther aggrandizement of the English monarch.
— from The History of England, Volume I From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688 by David Hume

A glow of resentful disappointment swept through the North of England at the news.
— from The King's Achievement by Robert Hugh Benson

It is not every one to whom is given the gift of rightly directing souls."
— from Agnes of Sorrento by Harriet Beecher Stowe

This was a girl of rather diminutive stature, dressed in the ordinary fashion of the common people, short-skirted petticoat, sleeveless camisa , arms, ankles, and feet bare; but the head, breast, and shoulders all under one covering—the reboso .
— from The Free Lances: A Romance of the Mexican Valley by Mayne Reid

The lower ashlar, mostly yellow grit, is cut and carefully cemented; the upper part is generally of rough dry stone, the plutonic formations of the islet heaped up with scanty care.
— from The Land of Midian (Revisited) — Volume 1 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir