The system is really not a lot of tricks, but is based on the elementary laws of mechanics, a study of the equilibrium of the human body, the ways in which it is disturbed, how to recover your own and take advantage of the shiftings of the center of gravity of the other person.
— from Letters from China and Japan by Harriet Alice Chipman Dewey

But as there is no surrounding vacuum it thrusts away the neighbouring air, and this being rendered heavy, and, when it is displaced, having been poured around the mass of earth, forcibly compresses it and drives it into the vacant space whence the new air had come up; and the earth when compressed by the air into an indissoluble union with water becomes rock.
— from Timaeus by Plato

In its development, however, the cultus is almost wholly Japanese.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

“I just wanted to ask—Tell you how it is, dominie: Here a while ago I guess I got kind of slack.
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

In the first place, allowing the question to be answered in the affirmative as to whether he was really a Savior, or supernatural being, or more than a mere man, a negative answer to which seems to have been sprung (as previously intimated) at the very hour of his birth, and that by his kindred, his own nearest relatives; as it is declared, "his own brethren did not believe on him"—a skepticism which has been growing deeper and broader from that day to this.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

ANT: Incompatible, impossible, insupposable, inconsistent, discordant, hostile, adverse, antagonistic, incongruous, destructive, inter-repugnant, contradictory.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

So long as this object which he calls his life or soul remains unharmed, the man is well; if it is injured, he suffers; if it is destroyed, he dies.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Paaker, the chief pioneer, stood up in it, driving his handsome and fiery Syrian horses.
— from Uarda : a Romance of Ancient Egypt — Volume 04 by Georg Ebers

By an ingenious contrivance, described in the Transactions of 1813, he drew platinum into wire 1 5000 of an inch in diameter, highly valuable for the construction of telescopes; and even reduced some portions to the inconceivable tenuity of 1 30,000 .
— from The Gallery of Portraits: with Memoirs. Volume 2 (of 7) by Arthur Thomas Malkin

If it were possible, as some say, to study poetry artistically alone, contemplating it as a work of art, and not allowing it to excite the affections or the passions, there is no kind of poetry that might not be enjoyed with safety in any state of mind: it is doubtful, however, whether any work of art ought to be so contemplated.
— from The Young Lady's Mentor A Guide to the Formation of Character. In a Series of Letters to Her Unknown Friends by Anonymous

Or is it Dian, habited like her, Who hath abandoned her holy groves To see the general hunting in this forest? TAMORA.
— from The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare

Then a circular gap appeared, nineteen inches in diameter, hollowed out of the lower part of the projectile.
— from From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon by Jules Verne

"It is desperately hard on me that you have treated me in this way!
— from The Farringdons by Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler

He was (p. 146) moreover, perplexed by the same embarrassments, was involved in debt, had great necessities, and was dependent on the House of Commons for aid to prosecute his wars and support the dignity of the crown.
— from A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges by John Lord