Editions of the Homeric Hymns, & c.:— Demetrius Chalcondyles, Florence, 1488 (with the "Epigrams" and the "Battle of the Frogs and Mice" in the "ed.
— from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod

—The general knowledge of mankind has been furthered to a greater extent by fear than by love; for fear endeavours to find out who the other is, what he can do, and what he wants: it would be dangerous and prejudicial to [pg 268] be deceived on this point.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The “old thing” meant his customary drink, of course.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

The idols of the Sun called by the same [14] name: for it is said of the good king Josiah, that they brake down the altars of Baalim—in his presence; and the Chaminim (or images of Cham) that were on high above them, he cut down .
— from A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Jacob Bryant

Let him try what he could do.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

There he sat; and all he could do—for all my polite arts and blandishments—he would not move a peg, nor say a single word, nor even look at me, nor notice my presence in the slightest way.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

All he could do now was to find a desirable tenant for “Cissie”—someone really desirable.
— from A Room with a View by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

Namque multa secunda proelia fêcerat, maximâs hostium côpiâs dêlêverat, multâs urbîs populo 4 Rômânô inimîcâs cêperat.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

The three mathematicians who have written on the cupola of St. Peter's, have clearly demonstrated a truth differing from the opinion of Brunelleschi, viz., that the small cupola increases, in a great degree, the lateral pressure.
— from Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects and Curiosities of Art (Vol. 3 of 3) by Shearjashub Spooner

Perhaps it was wrong to let a lad of his genius enter this war, but at any rate he has survived it, and now he will show us what he can do.
— from The Tree of Appomattox by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

Hy could do something.
— from The Trufflers: A Story by Samuel Merwin

In this episode occurs the fairy masquerade at Herne's Oak, in the midst of which he is set upon and beaten, ending in his complete discomfiture.
— from The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers by George P. (George Putnam) Upton

The doctor had come down to breakfast, leaving the dominie alone with the patient, when she took a tray from Tryphena, and carried up the morning repast of the watcher.
— from Two Knapsacks: A Novel of Canadian Summer Life by John Campbell

The Angamos had, by about midnight on the next night, traversed close upon half the distance to the Islands, and Jim was almost beginning to despair of ever catching the elusive corvette, when a hail came down from one of the men who were still stationed at the masthead: “Light ahead!
— from Under the Chilian Flag: A Tale of War between Chili and Peru by Harry Collingwood

One day I made the remark mentally that it appeared as if the sky itself, the genius or blue lady of the sky, had come down to walk by the sea and had left that sky-colour on the turf where she had trailed her robe, and this shade or quality of the hue set me thinking of a chapter I once wrote on the "Secret of the Charm of Flowers" (-Birds and Man-, pp.
— from The Land's End: A Naturalist's Impressions In West Cornwall, Illustrated by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

A Catalogue of all Graduates in Divinity, Law, Medicine, Arts, and Music: who have regularly proceeded or been created in the University of Oxford, from 1659 to the end of 1850; including also a list of Proctors, Heads of Houses, &c., during the same Period.
— from Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 89, July 12, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

Definitely to resolve to bestow Laetitia upon Vernon was more than he could do; enough that he held the card.
— from The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative by George Meredith