The supplies had to be landed at Alexandria, loaded into wagons, hauled around, and re-shipped, and this made it necessary to establish depots in the town as well as above the falls, and to leave behind Grover's division, 4,000 strong, to protect the stores and the carry.
— from History of the Nineteenth Army Corps by Richard B. (Richard Biddle) Irwin
Tiresias, thou whose thought embraces all, Revealed or unrevealed, in heaven or earth, In how sad plight our city is, thy mind, If not thy eye, discerns.
— from Specimens of Greek Tragedy — Aeschylus and Sophocles by Sophocles
Exercises for Developing Special Faculties The use of the experimental method is new to every department of science.
— from Applied Psychology: Driving Power of Thought Being the Third in a Series of Twelve Volumes on the Applications of Psychology to the Problems of Personal and Business Efficiency by Warren Hilton
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