LE RÉGULUS FRANÇAIS Tout le monde sait l'histoire de Régulus, ce Romain qui, pris par les Carthaginois, et envoyé à Rome, sur sa parole, pour proposer un échange de captifs, dissuada héroïquement le Sénat d'accepter les offres faites, et revint à Carthage où l'attendaient d' horribles supplices.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

And round that early-laurelled head Will flock to gaze the strengthless dead, And find unwithered on its curls The garland briefer than a girl's. XX Oh fair enough are sky and plain,
— from A Shropshire Lad by A. E. (Alfred Edward) Housman

Every coffee house had its orator, who became to his admirers a kind of "fourth estate of the realm."
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

And it was truly said by another, who, advising the Emperor Theodosius, told him that disputes did not so much rock the schisms of the Church asleep, as it roused and animated heresies; that, therefore, all contentions and dialectic disputations were to be avoided, and men absolutely to acquiesce in the prescriptions and formulas of faith established by the ancients.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Consequently, as no lasting personal bond of friendship ever found its way into my life, it is easy to understand how delight in the dissipations of student life could become a passion of some duration, because in it individual intercourse is entirely replaced by a common circle of acquaintances.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

This was our first experience of the western “peculiar institution,” and it was not very prepossessing.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

Our friends expire—we make the money fly In hope their souls will chase it to the sky.
— from The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce

As we are very far from believing in any such heathen goddess, or from encouraging any superstition, so we wish Mr John Fr——, or some other such philosopher, would bestir himself a little, in order to find out the real cause of this sudden transition from good to bad fortune, which hath been so often remarked, and of which we shall proceed to give an instance; for it is our province to relate facts, and we shall leave causes to persons of much higher genius.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Within the OWI itself, the overseas operation was separated from the domestic, the broadcasters from the [Pg 178] planners, the outposts from everybody else, during much of the war.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

The gentleman who enriched me with the poverty of his information about the gorse and the broom told me that he came out from England a youth of twenty and entered the Province of South Australia with thirty-six shillings in his pocket—an adventurer without trade, profession, or friends, but with a clearly-defined purpose in his head: he would stay until he was worth L200, then go back home.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

How our friend ever did arrive in France is as much of a mystery to me as it was to the Colonel; presumably a ruthless government, having decided it required men, roped him in along with the other lesser lights.
— from No Man's Land by H. C. (Herman Cyril) McNeile

In the 14th century, the English craftsman attained a thorough mastery over his materials, and consequently the type of ornament followed English contemporary architecture more closely.
— from A Manual of Historic Ornament Treating upon the evolution, tradition, and development of architecture and other applied arts. Prepared for the use of students and craftsmen by Richard Glazier

Missed me, old fellow ... even if it is unlocked.”
— from The Mystery of the Fifteen Sounds by Van Powell

Stir in half a minced [510] onion, for every eight potatoes, with a teaspoonful of chopped parsley.
— from The Dinner Year-Book by Marion Harland

Should the terrestrial nature of these plants be established on farther evidence, then we are warranted in supposing that there were isolated patches of land in the Cambrian or Primordial period, and if there was land there must have been bodies of fresh water, hence there may have been both terrestrial and aquatic insects, possibly of forms like the Podurids, May flies, Perlæ, mites and Pauropus of the present day.
— from Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses by A. S. (Alpheus Spring) Packard

The same thing took place on the farther side of the brook, and, when both squads were ready, the two parts of the bridge that were to form the two slanting sides of a double letter "A" were allowed to incline toward each other, from either side of the water, cadets having hold of the ropes, regulating and guiding the long spars.
— from Dick Hamilton's Cadet Days; Or, The Handicap of a Millionaire's Son by Howard Roger Garis

On the basis of the material that I examined, it seems that ovarian follicles either grow to nearly mature size in the season preceding ovulation and remain quiescent over winter or grow rapidly in the period of approximately six weeks between spring emergence and ovulation.
— from Natural History of the Ornate Box Turtle, Terrapene ornata ornata Agassiz by John M. Legler

About A.D. 80, she was made preceptress of the Empress, and wrote the first work in any language on female education; it was called Nü Kiai or Female Precepts , and has formed the basis of many succeeding books on female education.
— from The Middle Kingdom, Volume 1 (of 2) A Survey of the Geography, Government, Literature, Social Life, Arts, and History of the Chinese Empire and its Inhabitants by S. Wells (Samuel Wells) Williams

[301] Now it can hardly be contended that the preservation of any race of men in the struggle for life could have depended on such an extreme delicacy and refinement of the internal ear, [302] —a perfection only fully exercised in the enjoyment and appreciation of the most exquisite musical performances.
— from On the Genesis of Species by St. George Jackson Mivart