According to this teaching, substance is one and is subject to alteration ; there is a consensus in the movements Pg 49 Greek text of air and fluid throughout the whole body; 78 Nature acts throughout in an artistic and equitable manner, having certain faculties, by virtue of which each part of the body draws to itself the juice which is proper to it, and, having done so, attaches it to every portion of itself, and completely assimilates it; while such part of the juice as has not been mastered, 79 and is not capable of undergoing complete alteration and being assimilated to the part which is being nourished, is got rid of by yet another (an expulsive) faculty.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

Consider the great variety of truthful and delicate thought in the few lines we have quoted the wonder of the little maiden at the fleetness of her favorite-the “little silver feet”—the fawn challenging his mistress to a race with “a pretty skipping grace,” running on before, and then, with head turned back, awaiting her approach only to fly from it again-can we not distinctly perceive all these things?
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

Such teaching fills the mind with artificial associations that must be got rid of, before the child can develop independent ideas out of actual experiences.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

‘In the Greek rite (of baptism), the priest breathes thrice on the catechumen’s mouth, forehead, and breast, praying that every unclean spirit may be expelled.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

The rear-guard would run great risk of being itself cut off, if farther distant.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

An aristocratic nation, which in a contest with a democratic people does not succeed in ruining the latter at the outset of the war, always runs a great risk of being conquered by it.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

He had been several years at sea, and had, in the course of those removals to which all midshipmen are liable, and especially such midshipmen as every captain wishes to get rid of, been six months on board Captain Frederick Wentworth's frigate, the Laconia; and from the Laconia he had, under the influence of his captain, written the only two letters which his father and mother had ever received from him during the whole of his absence; that is to say, the only two disinterested letters; all the rest had been mere applications for money.
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen

Stay where you are, then, and I hope you get run over by an omnibus.
— from Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

There is nothing more pleasing to a traveller——or more terrible to travel-writers, than a large rich plain; especially if it is without great rivers or bridges; and presents nothing to the eye, but one unvaried picture of plenty: for after they have once told you, that ’tis delicious! or delightful! (as the case happens)—that the soil was grateful, and that nature pours out all her abundance, &c. . . .
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

The professional gentleman thus familiarly pointed out, had been all the time standing near them, with nothing specific visible, to denote his gentlemanly rank on board.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

From the looks of the people, however, I had no fears of them, especially when one of the girls, running off, brought back a large bamboo full of cool water.
— from In the Eastern Seas by William Henry Giles Kingston

We will be content if you will but promise not to think of leaving us again to get riches, only because we have a noble title."
— from The Fairy Book The Best Popular Stories Selected and Rendered Anew by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

“You think that, to prevent the risk of bloodshed, it is absolutely necessary that he should somehow be got rid of before Corpus Domini?”
— from The Gadfly by E. L. (Ethel Lillian) Voynich

A French fleet would run great risk of being intercepted and destroyed by the squadrons of England and Holland.
— from The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 5 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

Whatever happened, she was to be got rid of; but first her resolution was to be broken, for the sake of the example.
— from Callista : a Tale of the Third Century by John Henry Newman

But here a friendly house of learning stood, With open door beside the broad highway, And welcomed lads to study and to play In generous rivalry of brotherhood.
— from The Poems of Henry Van Dyke by Henry Van Dyke

That riches are not to be bodily gotten rid of, but are to be wisely conserved and treated as a stewardship intrusted to the owner by God.
— from The Transformation of Early Christianity from an Eschatological to a Socialized Movement A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Literature in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy by Lyford P. (Lyford Paterson) Edwards

Until men had learnt geometrical relations from bodies on the earth, it was impossible for them to understand the geometrical relations of bodies in the heavens.
— from Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative; Vol. 2 of 3 Library Edition (1891), Containing Seven Essays not before Republished, and Various other Additions. by Herbert Spencer

149; their way of getting rid of birds that infest gardens, viii.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 12 of 12) by James George Frazer

"This place isn't guarded," replied Old Beard, with a wry smile.
— from Rebels of the Red Planet by Charles L. Fontenay