Friendship, in the old heroic sense of that term, no longer exists; except in the cases of kindred or other legal affinity, it is in reality no longer expected or recognised as a virtue among men.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

R. Lower end of radial artery.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

Hertfordshire is England at its quietest, with little emphasis of river and hill; it is England meditative.
— from Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

Enough of this wretched life: enough of repining and apish trifling.
— from The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus A new rendering based on the Foulis translation of 1742 by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

Exeunt THE END 1594 H2 anchor THE TRAGEDY OF TITUS ANDRONICUS Dramatis Personae SATURNINUS, son to the late Emperor of Rome, afterwards Emperor BASSIANUS, brother to Saturninus TITUS ANDRONICUS, a noble Roman MARCUS ANDRONICUS, Tribune of the People, and brother to Titus Sons to Titus Andronicus: LUCIUS QUINTUS MARTIUS MUTIUS YOUNG LUCIUS, a boy, son to Lucius PUBLIUS, son to Marcus Andronicus Kinsmen to Titus: SEMPRONIUS CAIUS VALENTINE AEMILIUS, a noble Roman Sons to Tamora: ALARBUS DEMETRIUS CHIRON AARON, a Moor, beloved by Tamora A CAPTAIN A MESSENGER A CLOWN TAMORA, Queen of the Goths LAVINIA, daughter to Titus Andronicus A NURSE, and a black CHILD Romans and Goths, Senators, Tribunes, Officers, Soldiers, and Attendants SCENE: Rome and the neighbourhood ACT 1.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

A liberal education only renders a rascal more dishonest, more dangerous.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

"Now," said Alvaro Vasquez, "our booty is before our eyes, but it is so clearly discovered that of necessity we shall be seen before we can arrive at it; and because it doth not appear to me to be so great a settlement as that it can hold a people with whom we cannot cope, still, in order that we may achieve some sort of success, let each one run as fast as he can, and so let us stoutly fall upon them, and if we are not able to make captives of the young men, yet let us seize upon the old men, the women, and the little children, and let us take such advisement that whosoever putteth himself on his defence shall be slain without pity; and as to the others, let us seize them as best we can."
— from The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea. Vol. II by Gomes Eannes de Zurara

Mr. Linden, I should mention, had been for some time desirous of resigning his business in Mincing Lane to his son, Thomas Linden, the only child born to him by his long-since deceased wife, and of retiring, an estated squire-arch, to the otium cum. , or sine dignitate , as the case might be, of a country life; and this disposition had of late been much quickened by daily-increasing apprehensions of negro emancipation and revolutionary interference with differential duties—changes which, in conjunction with others of similar character, would infallibly bring about that utter commercial ruin which Mr. Linden, like every other rich and about-to-retire merchant or tradesman whom I have ever known, constantly prophesied to be near at hand and inevitable.
— from The Experiences of a Barrister, and Confessions of an Attorney by Samuel Warren

They bought house and land, and brought their slaves, and now live, exclusive of rent and hire of servants, for two thousand dollars a year, in [Pg 307] greater numbers and much higher style than the South Carolina family.
— from Society in America, Volume 1 (of 2) by Harriet Martineau

When the furrow is closed in, the spur is about one fourth of the entire width of the valve, and has its lower end obliquely rounded, and stands at about its own width from the basi-scutal angle: when there is only a slight depression and no furrow (as is always the case with young specimens), the spur is broader, equalling one third of the width of the valve, with its lower end almost truncated, and standing at about half its own width from the basi-scutal angle.
— from A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 2 of 2) The Balanidæ, (or Sessile Cirripedes); the Verrucidæ, etc., etc. by Charles Darwin

Saturninus , son to the late Emperor of Rome, afterwards emperor.
— from The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 6 of 9] by William Shakespeare

His chief works are: Elements of Logic , Elements of Rhetoric , and Lectures on Political Economy .
— from English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction by Henry Coppée

5. Transferred to Champagne, it rested for a few days and then went into line east of Rheims (Auberive sector) and in the Prosnes sector at the end of August.
— from Histories of two hundred and fifty-one divisions of the German army which participated in the war (1914-1918) by United States. War Department. General Staff

Livid and ghastly by turns, the knight's features wore that ludicrous expression of rage and astonishment more easy to conceive than to portray.
— from Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by John Roby