The exact sound of ă in Arabic and other Oriental languages is that of the English short u , as in "cuff."
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

How happy it is that there should be so blessed a spot left in tranquillity on the earth's surface!
— from Mr. Scarborough's Family by Anthony Trollope

On the line “In two of Taur,” etc., Skeat has the following note: “Tyrwhitt unluckily altered two to ten , on the plea that ‘the time ( four days complete , l. 1893) is not sufficient for the moon to pass from the second degree of Taurus into Cancer?
— from Astronomical Lore in Chaucer by Florence M. (Florence Marie) Grimm

The worshippers of reason, or virtue, or taste, or fashion, or nature, or one's own goodness and piety, or the spiritual entities of philosophers and religionists, are as truly idolaters as the worshippers of the grand lama in Thibet, or the economical sect in Lapland, who content themselves with the largest stone they can find.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13 by Robert Kerr

Zeno The third and last important thinker of the Eleatic School is Zeno who, like Parmenides, was a man of Elea.
— from A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by W. T. (Walter Terence) Stace

In the lower part of the peninsula the range swerves suddenly to the southwest, so that the level land is there on the eastern side of the mountains.
— from Early European History by Hutton Webster

A distinctively Border district, this was to be expected, and the like is true of the English side also.
— from In the Border Country by W. S. (William Shillinglaw) Crockett