There appears to be no such thing as silence or repose; everywhere is a continual stir, the gushing overflow of life in this exuberant region.
— from Travels in the Central Parts of Indo-China (Siam), Cambodia, and Laos (Vol. 1 of 2) During the Years 1858, 1859, and 1860 by Henri Mouhot

But the Athenians have plenty of other land in their empire, and can import what they want by sea.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

His guns have been very active, bombarding parts of our line intensely, and in the air his scouts and raiders have been flying over our lines in the endeavour to observe and destroy our troops and batteries, flying low with great audacity, and using machine-guns as well as bombs.
— from From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917 by Philip Gibbs

But I can say, and with assurance, that all these positions and all others of leadership in the educational field will be offered to college men and college women, and in all probability as soon as they are well ready for them.
— from On the Firing Line in Education by Adoniram Judson Ladd

Comparing present missionary agency and methods in India with those of past ages it may be well to consider the differences and gather therefrom assurance for the coming of the Kingdom of our Lord in the East.
— from India's Problem, Krishna or Christ by John P. (John Peter) Jones

Another version of the same work, undated, and printed by Robert Wyer, appeared under an even more deceptive title—‘A newe Herball of Macer, Translated out of Laten in to Englysshe.’
— from Herbals, Their Origin and Evolution: A Chapter in the History of Botany 1470-1670 by Agnes Robertson Arber

The Nestorians and Eutychians, who separated from the Catholic Church in the fifth century, admit the corporeal presence of our Lord in the Eucharist.
— from The Faith of Our Fathers by James Gibbons

Elated by the news of Talana Hill, and anxious to emulate their brothers of Dundee, the little force moved out of Ladysmith in the early morning.
— from The Great Boer War by Arthur Conan Doyle

In prose and verse his writings are very numerous, but his style, learned and obscure, often laboured in the extreme, though pregnant with thought and wit, contrasts unfavourably with the clearness of Cervantes; he holds now in Spanish literature a place nearly analogous to that of Swift among British writers.
— from Spain by Wentworth Webster

While his mind was comparatively at rest regarding money matters, he was not yet free from vexatious litigation, and his opinion of lawyers is tersely expressed in a letter to Mr. Kendall of December 27, 1859: "I have not lost my respect for law but I have for its administrators; not so much for any premeditated dishonesty as for their stupidity and want of just insight into a case."
— from Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume II by Samuel Finley Breese Morse

The process of solidification or of liquefaction is therefore extended over a temperature interval ac .
— from The Phase Rule and Its Applications by Alexander Findlay

Probably their own oscillation lent itself to everything they saw.
— from The House with the Green Shutters by George Douglas Brown