Judges, or rather arbiters, may be agreed upon by the plaintiff and defendant; and if no decision is obtained from them, their fellow-tribesmen shall judge.
— from Laws by Plato

[64] and first they fired the cannon at the Fort one after tother round the Fort which is 21 then the small arms & so 3 rounds a piece and then made a great fire on the Perrade and played round it & 1 Jil of Rum a man aloud for the frollic & a Barrel of Beer for a Company [65] & very wet knight.
— from The Military Journals of Two Private Soldiers, 1758-1775 With Numerous Illustrative Notes by Abraham Tomlinson

Our tour of the islands ended at Jolo, or rather at Maibun, on the other side of the island.
— from The Old World and Its Ways Describing a Tour Around the World and Journeys Through Europe by William Jennings Bryan

About 1,900 recruits joined our regiment; and many other units had their terrible losses made good; indeed, I heard that between 600,000 and 700,000 reservists and others joined the armies on the German and Austrian frontiers; and yet they were not brought up to their full establishments; a telling revelation of the fearful losses that had been sustained; although according to Prussian accounts, they had taken nearly a quarter of a million of prisoners from us.
— from In the Russian Ranks: A Soldier's Account of the Fighting in Poland by John Morse

The engineer did not, of course, understand the allusion nor, to the joy of Rob and Merritt, did he ask any explanation.
— from The Boy Scouts at the Panama Canal by John Henry Goldfrap

The earliest of them was John of Ruysbroeck, a man of visions and ecstasies.
— from The Age of the Reformation by Preserved Smith

He was deeply interested in geology, and made copious notes in his journal on rocks and mining.
— from Famous Givers and Their Gifts by Sarah Knowles Bolton

When some of the foremost leaders in education leave out of a list of desiderata for the high school what the universities have come to regard as the very heart of the institution—the library—is there marvel that the love of literature is being strangled in the schools? Required reading of classics, and the use of literary masterpieces for classroom dissection has taken away the pure joy of reading and made the study of literature a mere literary autopsy.
— from Library Ideals by Henry Eduard Legler