“He pretended to know of an immense treasure, and offered vast sums to the government if they would liberate him.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

This means that there may be some kinds of Acheulean industries that are later than some kinds of “Mousterian.”
— from Prehistoric Men by Robert J. (Robert John) Braidwood

In this kind of arrhythmia, if there are no contraindications to digitalis, it is the logical drug to use from its physiologic activities, slowing the heart by its action on the vagi and causing a steadier contraction of the heart; clinically this treatment is generally successful.
— from Disturbances of the Heart Discussion of the Treatment of the Heart in Its Various Disorders, With a Chapter on Blood Pressure by Oliver T. (Oliver Thomas) Osborne

On the south side of the inn was an apartment divided into a dining-room and bedroom, which the king occupied, and in the afternoon, after dining with the Scotch commissioners, he placed himself in their hands, and was sent a prisoner to their head-quarters.
— from England, Picturesque and Descriptive: A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel by Joel Cook

He, therefore, set himself to discover whether there are different kinds of "airs" in the atmosphere, and, if there is more than one kind of "air," what is the nature of that "air" which combines with a metal in the process of calcination.
— from The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry by M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison) Muir

He could use both hands with equal effect in fighting, could handle three spears at once, keeping one always in the air, and when his men were rowing could run from prow to stern of the ship on their oars.
— from Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 09 (of 15), Scandinavian by Charles Morris

In the midst of the hall sat a king on an ivory throne, and his garments were made of purple from the sea.
— from The Story of Sigurd the Volsung by William Morris

There isn't enough time for you to get to know one another in the air.
— from Dave Dawson on Guadalcanal by Robert Sidney Bowen

(72:5) We must observe that this perception asserts the rotation of a semicircle--which assertion would be false, if it were not associated with the conception of a sphere, or of a cause determining a motion of the kind, or absolutely, if the assertion were isolated.
— from On the Improvement of the Understanding by Benedictus de Spinoza

We translate one another only into our own language, and understand one another as little as before, because we only know one another in translations, and the best of the life of each nation remains and always will remain untranslatable.
— from Germany and the Germans from an American Point of View by Price Collier

If the sentence pleased they struck their spears together, "since the most honourable kind of assent is to applaud with arms."
— from The Danes in Lancashire and Yorkshire by S. W. Partington