Its middle part rested on a short pillar that had ten spirals round it, and that pillar was ten cubits in diameter.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

It will be observed that sound is more promptly reacted on than either sight or touch.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

I much prefer riding one of these donkeys,” cried Pinocchio.
— from The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi

75 It is now threatened, as respects passenger traffic, with the competition of the Transandine railway; as respects goods traffic, with that of the Panama Canal, and it may possibly retain only so much of the latter as passes between Pacific ports south of Callao and Atlantic ports south of the Equator.
— from South America: Observations and Impressions New edition corrected and revised by Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount

Merriam says this is the name of the open ridge between the main Eel R. and the northern part of Round V. That area is marked Poonkinny Ridge on the USGS Spyrock Quadrangle.
— from California Athabascan Groups by Martin A. Baumhoff

The truth-seeker may concern himself with the smallest scale of a moth's wing; he may devote himself to the study of the human soul in its most profound recesses; or he may strive with the immediate facts of life.
— from The Flying Death by Samuel Hopkins Adams

Podolia, Volhynia and Kief are, in modern phrase, Ruthenian, occupied by a people homogeneous with those of Gallicia in Austria, with Southern Poland, and Northeastern Hungary.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 03, June 1883 by Chautauqua Institution

But the perfect work of art or love, when done, becomes not merely the canon by which to test progress; it becomes itself the cause of progress, both because of its more perfect revelation of the ideal and because of the emulation which it arouses in others to go and do likewise.
— from Evolution by F. B. (Frank Byron) Jevons

Sometimes indeed when a waking bird—by preference a mavis—sings outside my window, for a little while after I swim upward out of the ocean of sleep, it seems that I might possibly remember one stanza of the deathless words; or even by chance recapture, like the brown speckled thrush, that "first fine careless rapture" of the adorable refrain .
— from Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

I must pass rapidly over several years.
— from The Missing Bride by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

He may argue that, if it is difficult to see how a pleasure which is the result of a desire may cause the desire, it is equally difficult to see how it may prolong, reinforce or intensify it.
— from A Handbook of Ethical Theory by George Stuart Fullerton

In Mesopotamia and Chaldæa there may still be seen “everywhere ruins of ancient canals; and there are also to be met with, in many places, ridges of earth, which stretch for considerable distances in a straight line, and surround lands perfectly level.”
— from History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 3 (of 12) by G. (Gaston) Maspero