Among such antiquities are great earthworks in the form of mounds, or of raised enclosures, crowning the tops of hills, river peninsulas, &c., and no doubt serving for defence.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

It is true, that, in government, it is good to use men of one rank equally; for to countenance some extraordinarily, is to make them insolent, and the rest discontent, because they may claim a due: but, contrariwise, in favor, to use men with much difference and election is good: for it maketh the persons preferred more thankful, and the rest more officious, because all is of favor.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

On the next he marched along the Achelous as far as Stratus; there he crossed the river, and, having halted his men out of range, endeavoured to tempt the garrison outside the walls; for he had been informed that two thousand Aetolian infantry and about four hundred horse, with five hundred Cretans, had collected into Stratus.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

It makes our own religious enthusiasm seem pale and cold.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

Man was formed out of the earth—“The Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground;”—the word there used signifies Red earth.—Josephus says, that the first man was called Adam, which in the Hebrew tongue signifies Red; because he was made out of Red earth—for such, he says, is the p. 33 true and virgin earth.
— from Spiritual Victories Through the Light of Salvation by J. (John) Church

“We are in hopes of getting a meeting of our referees early next week.
— from A Battle of the Books, recorded by an unknown writer for the use of authors and publishers To the first for doctrine, to the second for reproof, to both for correction and for instruction in righteousness by Gail Hamilton

He would have been amazed by a display of intimate knowledge such as no British quidnunc could have mustered if he had happened to stumble across these intricacies of international competition, and the conversation would always have terminated in the same unanswered but inconscionable challenge to the future: 'When will the oppressed majority of our race escape the Turkish yoke?
— from The Balkans: A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey by Arnold Toynbee

It is too much like making omelets of rotten eggs.
— from Hints on Dairying by T. D. (Thomas Day) Curtis

She emerges from the sickroom with a constitution shattered; not altogether broken, but much out of repair every way; mentally, in particular; for the mind has developed enormous energy in proportion as the body has wasted away; and all the nerves that are controlled from the general office are sent tingling at the least noise—even at the tread of a great thought.
— from The Story of a Life by J. Breckenridge (John Breckenridge) Ellis

They say that after he had formed the world he created man out of red earth, which was also the food of mankind until bread-fruit was produced.
— from Darwin and Modern Science by A. C. (Albert Charles) Seward