Hypanis, r. ( Bog ), i. 162 , 457 , 470 . ——, r. of Sarmatia ( Kuban ), ii. 222 -224.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

Perhaps there was not a great deal of scientific knowledge in the entire corps, nor was very much needed.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

He was protected by his isolation, alone of his own superior kind, in close touch with Nature, that keeps faith on such easy terms with her lovers.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

The god of scholastic knowledge is Aristotle; ‘tis irreligion to question any of his decrees, as it was those of Lucurgus at Sparta; his doctrine is a magisterial law, which, peradventure, is as false as another.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

The other country folk confined themselves to the grocery side; but our neighbour was evidently too full of some kind intention towards mistress, wife or daughter, to be shy; and it soon became a question with me, whether he or Miss Matty would keep their shopmen the longest time.
— from Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

The live-long day we sauntered on, still keeping in view the end of our journey, but careless of the hour of its completion.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Then he sent ambassadors to exact the usual tribute from the Sclavs; these were killed, and he was even attacked in Jutland by a Sclavish force; but he overcame seven kings in a single combat, and ratified by conquest his accustomed right to tribute.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

Mutuswamy was then appointed in succession district munsiff at Tranquebar, deputy-collector in Tanjore in 1859, sub-judge of south Kanara in 1865, and a magistrate of police at Madras in 1868.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

Five years later the bones of Bishop Cantilupe were moved to the Chapel of St. Katherine, in the north-west transept.
— from Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Hereford A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See by A. Hugh (Alfred Hugh) Fisher

We may as well do a deal of some kind; it is no use each of us having one glove.
— from The Hampstead Mystery by Arthur J. (Arthur John) Rees

Old Solitary kept in the background, saying nothing.
— from Frank Merriwell's Bravery by Burt L. Standish

I cannot recall a great history that has been written by a poor man in any age or country, unless he had a pension, or office of some kind, involving duties more or less nominal, which gave him both leisure and his daily bread,--like Hume as a librarian in Edinburgh, or Neander as a professor in Berlin.
— from Beacon Lights of History, Volume 11: American Founders by John Lord

Also she always has an admirer of some kind in tow.
— from Maurice Guest by Henry Handel Richardson