But there were no orders for the other alternative; they passed through a gap in the instructions.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

“It is known by experience that the greatest quantity of work is performed by a mill when the number of turns made by the sails in a minute is six times the number of feet traversed by the wind in a second.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

But they did not originate from that monarch, but emanated probably from the distinctions of animal worship; and the extent of the local worship probably determined the boundary of the nome.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

Sister Sipa, of the Brotherhood of the Holy Rosary, could not bear the thought that a member of a rival order should alone boast of having seen this divine marvel, so she, even though she did not live near the place, had heard cries and groans, and even thought she recognized by their voices certain persons with whom she, in other times,—but out of Christian charity she not only forgave them but prayed for them and would keep their names secret, for all of which she was declared on the spot to be a saint.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

But we have not as yet touched on the climax of the difficulty; namely, the fact that the neuters of several ants differ, not only from the fertile females and males, but from each other, sometimes to an almost incredible degree, and are thus divided into two or even three castes.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

The toleration, and even the privileges of the Jews, who had multiplied to the number of forty thousand, were secured by the laws of the Cæsars and Ptolemies, and a long prescription of seven hundred years since the foundation of Alexandria.
— 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

It would be necessary only for the study of diseases as natural phenomena, and not for the cure of them.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Just now he is engaged in a project for building a new organ for the court chapel.
— from The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven, Volume I by Alexander Wheelock Thayer

It was only a moment's work to sheathe his sword and grasp the hideous trophy in his hands; but even then the danger was not over, for the snakes on Medusa's head began to hiss so loudly that their noise awoke the other two sleeping Gorgons, and they looked around to find why their sister had disturbed their rest.
— from Stories of Old Greece and Rome by Emilie K. (Emilie Kip) Baker

It had come to him suddenly with overwhelming force that he was responsible not only for the happiness but for the lives of his wife and their friends.
— from The Tangled Threads by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

Now to all writers of the first order, these rules, and the need for them produced by the moral and intellectual incompetence of the ordinary human animal, are no more invariably beneficial and respectable than the sunlight which ripens the wheat in Sussex and leaves the desert deadly in Sahara, making the cheeks of the ploughman's child rosy in the morning and striking the ploughman brainsick or dead in the afternoon; no more inspired (and no less) than the religion of the Andaman islanders; as much in need of frequent throwing away and replacement as the community's boots.
— from The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage by Bernard Shaw

If during the preceding twelve years a navy relatively as strong as that which this country now has had been built up, and an army provided relatively as good as that which the country now has, there never would have been the slightest necessity of fighting the war; and if the necessity had arisen the war would under such circumstances have ended with our speedy and overwhelming triumph.
— from State of the Union Addresses by Theodore Roosevelt

“Rise, happy morn, rise, holy morn, Draw forth the cheerful day from night: O Father, touch the east, and light The light that shone when Hope was born.”
— from A Key to Lord Tennyson's 'In Memoriam' by Alfred Gatty

They were the picked men from the universities of the world; not only from the dominions and colonies of the British Empire, but from Germany as well, for Rhodes felt that conflict between the two countries could most surely be avoided by making their peoples better acquainted.
— from While I Remember by Stephen McKenna

r, accompanied by one who was apparently an officer, surveyed all the points of the locality; and, when their companions had rested and refreshed themselves, they gave the necessary orders for the preparation of a camp.
— from Lothair by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield