Medicine is also a sort of ministration or service, having in view the attainment of some object—would you not say of health?
— from Euthyphro by Plato

POLYHYMNIA , the muse of Sacred Hymns, is crowned with a wreath of laurel.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

"I would bring him myself, or send him in the dog-cart.
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

Coming therefore into their Hall, on the morrow, an inorganic mass of Six Hundred individuals, these Commons Deputies perceive, without terror, that they have it all to themselves.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

He was well acquainted with the way dilettanti have (the cleverer they were the worse he found them) of looking at the works of contemporary artists with the sole object of being in a position to say that art is a thing of the past, and that the more one sees of the new men the more one sees how inimitable the works of the great old masters have remained.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

No word had fallen from my lips, at that time or at any time before it, that could betray me, or startle her into sudden knowledge of the truth.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

In its frozen state it was more like strips of galvanized iron, and when a dog wrestled it into his stomach it thawed into thin and innutritious leathery strings and into a mass of short hair, irritating and indigestible.
— from The Call of the Wild by Jack London

She had moods of sexual hostility, in which she generalised uncharitably about mankind.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

"My opinion," said he, "is that we ought, out of the common purse, to pay for this barn, and whatsoever corn, straw, or hay it contains, and thus indemnify the owner, and then burn down the whole building, and the terrible beast with it.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

"Will you row me out?" said Hackler impatiently.
— from Fast as the Wind: A Novel by Nat Gould

One winter, when the snow lay thick upon the lawn, he traced upon it a maze of such hopeless intricacy as almost to put its famous rival at Hampton Court in the shade.
— from The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson) by Stuart Dodgson Collingwood

He is recognized to-day as the Mayor of—— street; his influence is met everywhere."
— from Aliens or Americans? by Howard B. (Howard Benjamin) Grose

He had just succeeded to the title, by the death of his brother Washington, vice-admiral of the blue,; who had begun to rebuild the mansion of Stanton Harold, in Leicestershire, according to a plan of his own, and lived to see it nearly finished.-E. Letter 157 To The Hon. H. S. Conway.
— from The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Horace Walpole

—It is necessary not only that the duty of enforcement of the law be assigned to specified State officers, but also that they be expressly given the right to inspect and examine mussels or shells in the boats or on land and be empowered to seize mussels or shells held in violation of the law.
— from The Protection of Fresh-Water Mussels by R. E. (Robert Ervin) Coker

It will be noticed that my remarks are on minute details, and that they savor more of serious handiwork in the placing of books than of lordly survey and direction.
— from On Books and the Housing of Them by W. E. (William Ewart) Gladstone

She was really an accomplished musician, and though the kind of music that she affected was becoming limited by the very character of her life as the wife of an undistinguished manufacturer of small hardware in a small black-country town, the p. 307 taste, which had originally been formed in Germany, existed and was easily encouraged by Edwin’s admiration of her attainments.
— from The Young Physician by Francis Brett Young

They had no means of supporting her in another city.
— from Camilla: A Tale of a Violin Being the Artist Life of Camilla Urso by Charles Barnard

"So far as I can make out," said he, in a puzzled tone, "there is nothing above."
— from Motor Matt in Brazil; or, Under The Amazon by Stanley R. Matthews