The next year Tobias, 999 bishop of the church of Rochester, died, a most learned man, as has been said before; for he was disciple to those masters of blessed memory, Theodore, the archbishop, and Abbot Hadrian, wherefore, as has been said, besides having a great knowledge of letters both ecclesiastical and general, he learned both the Greek and Latin tongues to such perfection, that they were as well known and familiar to him as his native language.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

The only forms that can be continuous without any marked change in the angles, are the undulating stem, the wave, and its square form the key or labyrinth; but even with these the proportion of width to height at times needs modification.
— from Design and Tradition A short account of the principles and historic development of architecture and the applied arts by Amor Fenn

We have before noticed that by instinct and memory all the wants of the brute creation are met; God has given them all that they need to teach them to live, each in its own life, after its kind, and to provide for their young ones; but He has not given to the "beasts that perish" the power of, as we sometimes say, "putting this and that together," nor, as far as we know, of learning by experience; although it does seem as if the spiders, in making their webs, improve by practice.
— from Twilight and Dawn; Or, Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation by Caroline Pridham

When one has made up one's mind to live a certain kind of life—" "But, Evelyn, who is preventing you from living up to your ideal?
— from Sister Teresa by George Moore

My opinion is that neither of these standards is appropriate for all kinds of land, but each for some kind: for some land is easy and some difficult to plough, and oxen are unable to break up some land except by great effort and often they leave the ploughshare in the furrow broken from the beam: wherefore in this respect we should observe a triple rule on every farm, when we are new to it, namely: find out the practice of the last owner; that of the neighbours, and make some experiments of our own.
— from Roman Farm Management: The Treatises of Cato and Varro by Marcus Porcius Cato

It would probably be advisable to get the extra strong frame for any kind of land, because even in light sand there are times when a disk may be used to advantage to kill quackgrass or to chew up sod before plowing.
— from Farm Mechanics: Machinery and Its Use to Save Hand Labor on the Farm. by Herbert A. Shearer

The kingdom of Lydia became extinct in his person, and the power was transferred to Persia.
— from Famous Men of Ancient Times by Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) Goodrich