The noble sister of Publicola, The moon of Rome, chaste as the icicle That's curdied by the frost from purest snow, And hangs on Dian's temple- dear Valeria!
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

The three methods of raising capital are: (1) Through big banks; (2) Through small and private banks; (3) Through public subscription.
— from The Jewish State by Theodor Herzl

There are other mounds on Richland creek, in the neighborhood of Waynesville.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

The rising majesty of Rome could no longer brook the insolence of a rebel; and Michael Cerularius was excommunicated in the heart of Constantinople by the pope's legates.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Ὑποκρῐτής, οῦ, ὁ, the giver of an answer or response; a stage-player, actor; in N.T., a moral or religious counterfeit, a hypocrite, Mat. 6.2, 5.16; 7.5, et al. Ὑπολαμβάνω, ( ὑπό & λαμβάνω ) f. λήψομαι, a.2. ὑπέλαβον, to take up, by placing one's self underneath what is taken up; to catch away, withdraw, Ac. 1.9; to take up discourse by continuation; hence, to answer, Lu. 10.30; to take up a notion, to think, suppose, Lu. 7.43.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

The wood-sawyer, who was a little man with a redundancy of gesture (he had once been a mender of roads), cast a glance at the prison, pointed at the prison, and putting his ten fingers before his face to represent bars, peeped through them jocosely.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

H2 anchor Long, Long Hence After a long, long course, hundreds of years, denials, Accumulations, rous'd love and joy and thought, Hopes, wishes, aspirations, ponderings, victories, myriads of readers, Coating, compassing, covering—after ages' and ages' encrustations, Then only may these songs reach fruition.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

The muscles of respiration cannot, therefore, produce a vacuum between the pulmonic and costal pleura, either while the external air has or has not access to the lungs.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

And he who is in a state of rebellion cannot receive grace, to use the phrase of which the Church is so fond—so rightly fond, I dare say—for in life as in art the mood of rebellion closes up the channels of the soul, and shuts out the airs of heaven.
— from De Profundis by Oscar Wilde

Suddenly, however, the manners of Raymond changed; he appeared to desire to find opportunities of bringing about a return to kindness and intimacy with my sister.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Unfortunately, we had no sooner made ourselves really comfortable than the Staffordshires claimed the field as part of their area, and we had to move to a similar [Pg 40] billeting area a few hundred yards outside Reninghelst where we stayed until the 28th.
— from The Fifth Leicestershire A Record Of The 1/5th Battalion The Leicestershire Regiment, T.F., During The War, 1914-1919. by John David Hills

She told me that, along with her husband, she had voyaged in all manner of rickety craft among the islands of the Pacific, reflectively adding, "Our tastes were similar."
— from Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum

Near the site of Kerr's Mill, on Roubidoux Creek, 5 miles south-east of Waynesville, is a cave at the foot of a bluff, the entrance 60 feet above the bottom of the hill.
— from Archeological Investigations Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 76 by Gerard Fowke

The hair is tied and made to hang down behind in four braids, surmounted with a pretty hair ornament made of red coral and turquoises.
— from Three Years in Tibet by Ekai Kawaguchi

Four years later the pope issued a famous bull, called "Unigenitus" (1713), definitively condemning Jansenist doctrines as heretical; but the sect still lived on, especially in Holland, and "Unigenitus" was disliked by many orthodox Roman Catholics, who thought its condemnations too sweeping and too severe.
— from A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. by Carlton J. H. (Carlton Joseph Huntley) Hayes

Many outwardly renounced Christianity as the sight of the prolonged tortures lacerated their hearts and smote them with weakness.
— from Bleeding Armenia: Its history and horrors under the curse of Islam by Augustus Warner Williams

The haversack, manufactured of rough canvass, sometimes proved a treacherous friend, for through many rents and breaches, made by the hand of time, the mouldy and crumbling biscuit found its way, leaving but the fragments of his bare allowance.
— from The Adventures of Captain John Patterson With Notices of the Officers, &c. of the 50th, or Queen's Own Regiment from 1807 to 1821 by John Patterson

The story of Tennyson’s Petersfield establishment may be classed as a myth, though supported by several monuments of research called cyclopedias.
— from Tennyson's Life and Poetry: And Mistakes Concerning Tennyson by Eugene Parsons

He admits, but justifies, the mediating or reconciling character of the work.
— from The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 by Various

He invited Duke Rudolf of Suabia, one of Henry's greatest subjects, a man of religious character and much reverence for the Holy See, to come to Rome, and in common with himself, the Empress Agnes, the two Countesses of Tuscany, the Bishop of Como (who was the confessor of Agnes), and other God-fearing persons, to consider the crisis at which the Church had arrived, and 234 to hear and give advice upon the Pope's intentions and projects.
— from The Makers of Modern Rome, in Four Books by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant