Thus they say that he did; but as to this matter and the chamber under ground, I neither disbelieve it nor do I very strongly believe, but I think that this Salmoxis lived many years before Pythagoras.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

That I cannot be,'—('to her,' she was on the point of adding, but she relented at the sight of that poor, anxious face.)—'It is not my nature to show affection even where I feel it, nor do I volunteer advice in general.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

The first rib is remarkably broad and flat, and is not divisible into vertebral and sternal portions.
— from The Vertebrate Skeleton by Sidney H. (Sidney Hugh) Reynolds

It is not divided into verses.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 201, September 3, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

It appeared in evidence before a committee, that the old seed of the white clover was doctored by first wetting it slightly, and then drying it with the fumes of burning sulphur, and that the red clover seed had its colour improved by shaking it in a sack with a small quantity of indigo; but this being detected after a time, the doctors then used a preparation of logwood, fined by a little copperas, and sometimes by verdigris; thus at once improving the appearance of the old seed, and diminishing, if not destroying, its vegetative power already enfeebled by age.
— from On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures by Charles Babbage

The consideration of this image is not difficult, in view of its counterpart, of the past evils;[52] we would, however, aid him who undertakes it.
— from Works of Martin Luther, with Introductions and Notes (Volume I) by Martin Luther

The objection may be raised that it is difficult to think of a chemical substance produced in an injured area no larger than a millimeter, diffusing through the cornea and reaching the vessels outside this in such quantity and concentration as to affect their contents, nor has there been any evidence presented that definite chemical substances are produced in injured tissues; but there is no difficulty in view of the possibilities.
— from Disease and Its Causes by W. T. (William Thomas) Councilman

It may be noticed that his character is not defined in very strong colors, simply because he is a foil to the Princess, and would, if brought out more strongly, detract from the brilliancy of the Princess as well as mar the general unity of the poem.
— from Essays Literary, Critical and Historical by Thomas O'Hagan

The devil, my maisteris, There is no dame in Venice shall indure itt.
— from The Three Perils of Man; or, War, Women, and Witchcraft, Vol. 1 (of 3) by James Hogg

At the time when this occurs, and, indeed, up till a considerably later period, the mesoblast is not split into somatopleure and splanchnopleure, and it is not divided into vertebral and lateral plates.
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 1 (of 4) Separate Memoirs by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour