[ Cantacuzene says that the Genoese lost twenty-eight ships with their crews, autandroi; the Venetians and Catalans sixteen, the Imperials, none Cantacuzene accuses Pisani of cowardice, in not following up the victory, and destroying the Genoese.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

And is not courage a part of virtue, and cowardice of vice? 'Certainly.'
— from Laws by Plato

The meaning is not clear and Petavius suspects corruption.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 2 by Emperor of Rome Julian

From that time Tyr is one-handed, and he is now called a peacemaker among men.
— from The Younger Edda; Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson

In the latter, it has reference to the proportion of wealth, of which it is in no case a precise measure, and in ordinary cases a very unfit one.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

Here, of course, we must regard a Proposition in A as making the same assertion, since it necessarily contains a Proposition in I .
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll

Its use is not confined, as people commonly suppose, to arguments in the law courts and speeches in the assembly; it is rather a part of the art of disputation, under which are included both the rules of Gorgias and the eristic of Zeno.
— from Phaedrus by Plato

Both car cards and billboards are growing in popularity because they enable the coffee packer to reproduce his package in its natural colors and permit also of striking displays.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Bier .—A symbol of death; if near consultant, a personal sorrow, otherwise of a less personal nature.
— from Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves: How to Read Your Fate in a Teacup by Cicely Kent

The laws enable one to know the nature of providence, and only one who knows its nature can acknowledge providence, for then he beholds it.
— from Angelic Wisdom about Divine Providence by Emanuel Swedenborg

Here there is a slight but well-marked break, or shift, of about 200 miles to the westward, where the volcanic belt begins again in North Celebes, and passes by Siau and Sanguir to the Philippine Islands along the eastern side of which it continues, in a curving line, to their northern extremity.
— from The Malay Archipelago, Volume 1 The Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise; A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature by Alfred Russel Wallace

Where the separation is nearly complete, a portion of it protrudes at the os uteri; and this we can sometimes hook down with one or two fingers, and bring away: a still better mode is recommended by Levret, viz.
— from A System of Midwifery by Edward Rigby

He accordingly, early in November, caused a proclamation to be made throughout the city by sound of trumpet, that all persons having demands upon him were to present their claims, in person, upon a specified day.
— from The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-84) by John Lothrop Motley

Is it not cold and pure and wild?
— from The Heart of England by Edward Thomas

In the north-west part of India the Kattywar breed of horses is so generally striped, that, as I hear from Colonel Poole, who examined the breed for the Indian Government, a horse without stripes is not considered as purely-bred.
— from On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. (2nd edition) by Charles Darwin

As a matter of public policy, the granting of a railway franchise in the Park is objectionable because it necessarily creates a perpetual monopoly of a public privilege.
— from The Yellowstone National Park: Historical and Descriptive by Hiram Martin Chittenden

But our developed intellect and keener perspicacity Has all reduced to system now and a priori rule: We've altogether ceased to trust in natural capacity, And pin alone our faith upon a Pedagogy School.
— from Lyra Frivola by A. D. (Alfred Denis) Godley

But the ensuing winter happened to be so mild that, although the cotton is not commonly a perennial outside the tropics, new shoots grew from the old roots in the following spring and yielded their crop in the fall.[3] Among those who promptly adopted the staple was Richard Leake, who wrote from Savannah at the end of 1788 to Tench Coxe: "I have been this year an adventurer, and the first that has attempted on a large scale, in the article of cotton.
— from American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips