25, and others) consider to be a description of the original Pythagorean system as it stood before Philolaus, is more probably a subsequent transformation of it; introduced after the time of Aristotle, in order to suit later astronomical views.
— from Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume 1 by George Grote

Suspicious-looking pools of water were on the ice in many places, and so the outlook for the return trip was anything but pleasant.
— from Winter Adventures of Three Boys in the Great Lone Land by Egerton Ryerson Young

The apostle declares that his sight of truth is only partial, and that everything partial is imperfect, and that everything imperfect must pass away; so that our present knowledge of truth is transient.
— from Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by James Freeman Clarke

If the villa life of Italy might prove a severe trial of temper and spirits to most persons, to young Gerald, trained in all the asceticism of a convent, it was a perfect paradise.
— from Gerald Fitzgerald, the Chevalier: A Novel by Charles James Lever

In my present abject state the only way of amusing myself I can hit on is setting the girls of the school to garden and cook!
— from Hortus Inclusus Messages from the Wood to the Garden, Sent in Happy Days to the Sister Ladies of the Thwaite, Coniston by John Ruskin