And skiey sun (that with his rays dissolves) Do minish the level seas; in part because The water is diffused underground Through all the lands.
— from On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus

The Ayacucho was also there, loading for Callao, and the little Loriotte, which had run directly down from Monterey, where we left her.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

With the head we invite, remand, confess, deny, give the lie, welcome, honour, reverence, disdain, demand, rejoice, lament, reject, caress, rebuke, submit, huff, encourage, threaten, assure, and inquire.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Our spittle cleanses and dries up our wounds; it kills the serpent:— Tantaque in his rebas distantia differitasque est, Ut quod aliis cibus est, aliis fuat acre venenum.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

If he represent descending development, decay, chronic sickening, he has little worth: and the greatest fairness would have him take as little room, strength, and sunshine as possible from the well-constituted.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

What he really did do, of permanent value, is very little compared to the expectations of his friends.
— from Home Life of Great Authors by Hattie Tyng Griswold

because within her ribs did dwell, More store of shot and great artillarie, Then might haue seru'd the worlds great victorie.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 07 England's Naval Exploits Against Spain by Richard Hakluyt

It was Emily Barlow, who had run down during her lunch hour to the scene of the tragedy.
— from The Incendiary: A Story of Mystery by William Augustine Leahy

It was shown, for instance, that in saloons on the North Side of the city, not only Beggs and Coughlin, but also O'Sullivan, had repeatedly denounced Dr. Cronin in the most vituperative language, and that Coughlin in particular had remarked little more than a month before the murder that, "a prominent North Side Catholic would be done up if he could not keep his mouth shut."
— from The Crime of the Century; Or, The Assassination of Dr. Patrick Henry Cronin by Henry M. Hunt

Then he rubbed down, dressed in the open air behind the old awning hung there, took a dozen deep breaths and a cup of coffee, and was off for work.
— from Dangerous Days by Mary Roberts Rinehart

His researches delved deeply into the Hrrshtk compositions, and a tentative theory based on the Most Common Harmonic, now shown to have been totally mistaken, led to the T85 discoveries.
— from Extracts from the Galactick Almanack: Music Around the Universe by Laurence M. Janifer

In their anxiety to push forward they had forgotten to wind them up, and the springs had run down during the thirty-six hours.
— from The Romance of Polar Exploration Interesting Descriptions of Arctic and Antarctic Adventure from the Earliest Time to the Voyage of the "“Discovery”" by G. Firth Scott

Since, however, no one has recorded dated Dublin editions corresponding exactly to these London reprints, the evidence of the reprints counts for very little.
— from The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 04 Swift's Writings on Religion and the Church — Volume 2 by Jonathan Swift

On his return Dick did not fail to mention the wasp, and again the king felt how great was his debt to Jaqueline.
— from Prince Ricardo of Pantouflia: Being the Adventures of Prince Prigio's Son by Andrew Lang