The girl was left an orphan at an early age, under the guardianship of Cleanax, of Argos.
— from The Odyssey by Homer

And said he, 'Mr. Kurtz's knowledge of unexplored regions must have been necessarily extensive and peculiar—owing to his great abilities and to the deplorable circumstances in which he had been placed: therefore—' I assured him Mr. Kurtz's knowledge, however extensive, did not bear upon the problems of commerce or administration.
— from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

To this third daughter the statement of Clement of Alexandria must refer, though by a common looseness of expression he uses the plural number (Euseb.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

By the end of 1708 the disasters of France by land and sea, the frightful sufferings of the kingdom, and the almost hopelessness of carrying on a strife which was destroying France, and easily borne by England, led Louis XIV. to offer most humiliating concessions to obtain peace.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

Χολάω, ῶ, ( χολή , considered as the seat or cause of anger and of melancholy) )
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

The Ung-kút were a Turk tribe who were vassals of the Kin Emperors of Cathay, and were intrusted with the defence of the Wall of China, or an important portion of it, which was called by the Mongols Ungu , a name which some connect with that of the tribe.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

But there is a problem, an issue of fact and not of words, an issue of the most momentous importance, which is often decided without discussion in one sentence,—nay, in one clause of a sentence,—by those very writers who spin out whole chapters in their efforts to show { 150} what 'true' freedom is; and that is the question of determinism, about which we are to talk to-night.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

She was in the habit of spending the morning in rambling from shop to shop, not to purchase anything (except an occasional reel of cotton or a piece p. 131 of tape), but to see the new articles and report upon them, and to collect all the stray pieces of intelligence in the town.
— from Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

To have required the unanimous ratification of the thirteen States, would have subjected the essential interests of the whole to the caprice or corruption of a single member.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

Did they only cast out a vague reproach—or had the emperor really listened to some obscure teacher of those ancient Gnostics?]
— 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

Sometimes you fish the day, sometimes the night tides, according to the sort of fish you are getting and the stage of the moon; the tit-fish being a day-fish, and the black only coming out at night.
— from Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 680 January 6, 1877 by Various

The hut wherein Rawson kept his trade goods was a larger one than the rest, and differed from them in that it had a door through which you need only stoop slightly in entering, instead of crawling on all fours.
— from A Secret of the Lebombo by Bertram Mitford

Chief responsibility for the maintenance of the normal condition of the church will be considered in our discussion of the particular features of church organization and government.
— from The Last Reformation by F. G. (Frederick George) Smith

Let us assume that your specialty is a certain strain of corn or a certain breed of cattle.
— from Farm Boys and Girls by William A. (William Arch) McKeever

But not withstanding this possible confusion of all sciences into one, common sense draws lines between them sufficiently distinct for the general purposes of life, and no one is at a loss to understand that a recipe in medicine or cookery, or a demonstration in geometry, is not a lesson in religion.
— from Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 by Thomas Jefferson

But there was no sort of curiosity or arrière pensée in her questions.
— from Blanche: A Story for Girls by Mrs. Molesworth

I only speak, be it understood, of circumstances or actions with which I myself was associated both as actor and as spectator.
— from Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants by Camille Flammarion

[454] It is not to be imagined that this deep seclusion and these eager religious studies implied in Patrick Henry any forgetfulness of the political concerns of his own country, or any indifference to those mighty events which, during those years, were taking place in Europe, and were reacting with tremendous effect upon the thought, the emotion, and even the material interests of America.
— from Patrick Henry by Moses Coit Tyler