Contrasting with these were one or two members of council, richly dressed in the white wigs, the embroidered waistcoats and other magnificence of the time, and making a somewhat ostentatious display of courtier-like ceremonial.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In the spring of the summer following, the Lacedaemonians and Athenians made an armistice for a year; the Athenians thinking that they would thus have full leisure to take their precautions before Brasidas could procure the revolt of any more of their towns, and might also, if it suited them, conclude a general peace;
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

She was followed by a little maidservant, looking crushed and humble, who set a jug of milk on the table and made a very low bow: she had something about her that was in keeping with the old furniture, something petrified and dreary.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

It is the center of a region rich in native lore and legend, as it sleeps through the dusty noons when the cacao leaves droop with the heat and dreams through the silvery nights, waking twice or thrice a week to the endless babble and ceaseless chatter of an Oriental market where the noisy throngs make of their trading as much a matter of pleasure and recreation as of business.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

Trifling 205 That of Real Being includes God, Soul, and Matter, but only as to their Existence 206 And even this at the Expense of contradicting his Definition of Knowledge 206 Knowledge of Co-existence is either Trifling or Impossible 207 Leibniz rests upon Distinction of Contingent and Rational Truth 209 The Former may become the Latter, and is then Demonstrative 210 The Means of this Transformation are Mathematics and Classification 215 There are Two Principles,—One of Contradiction 217 The Other of Sufficient Reason 218 The Latter leads us to God as the Supreme Intelligence and the Final Condition of Contingent Fact 219 The Four Stages of Knowledge 222 CHAPTER XI.
— from Leibniz's New Essays Concerning the Human Understanding: A Critical Exposition by John Dewey

Excess of mental work, too much reading, long-continued anxiety, eye strain, and the use of tea, coffee, alcohol, tobacco, or other drugs, including many of those taken as medicines, are known to cause nervousness.
— from Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools by Francis M. (Francis Marion) Walters

About the first of May I turned eastward, crossing the San Joaquin River between the mouths of the Tuolumne and Merced, and by the time I had reached the Sierra foot-hills most of the vegetation had gone to seed and become as dry as hay.
— from The Mountains of California by John Muir

His favorite son was already at the head of the ministers of the temple at Memphis, and he has vowed to build magnificent temples and to bring splendid offerings to the Immortals.
— from Uarda : a Romance of Ancient Egypt — Volume 09 by Georg Ebers

But yet the Spanish galleys had a sight of them when they were come within three English miles of the town, and made after them with all possible haste; and although they saw that they were far out of their reach, yet in a vain fury and foolish pride they shot off their ordnance and made a stir in the sea as if they had been in the midst of them, which vanity of theirs ministered to our men notable matter of pleasure and mirth, seeing men to fight with shadows and to take so great pains to so small purpose.
— from Fifty-two Stories of the British Navy, from Damme to Trafalgar. by Alfred H. (Alfred Henry) Miles

—This may be felt either because the breath is actually hot, or because the membranes of the tongue and mouth are unusually tender, and feel the breath hot in consequence when it is not really so.
— from Papers on Health by John Kirk

The specific purpose of his squadron was to defend the mouths of the Thames and Medway, and of the coasts of Sussex, Kent, and Essex.
— from The Boys' Nelson by Harold Wheeler

h reached to the Red Sea), we have in this promise a territory 600 miles long by an average of about 180 broad, making an area of about 100,000 square miles, or ten times as much as the Jews ever could claim, and nearly one-half of it uninhabitable.
— from The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets by Richard B. (Richard Brodhead) Westbrook

“I’ll tell you what we can do,” said Will, rising; “we can cut down most of the trees and make a huge pile of them, which, with the broken pieces of the long-boat to kindle them, will create a blaze that will attract the attention of the people who live on yonder island—if there be any.
— from Sunk at Sea by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

Macquer ( Memoirs of the Turin Academy ) made a number of experiments on the solubility of salts in alcohol, and on the different coloured flames, which they produced.
— from A System of Pyrotechny Comprehending the theory and practice, with the application of chemistry; designed for exhibition and for war. by James Cutbush