One who reads it here, in a new and different land, thinks only of the story and of the novelist's power; but one who reads it on the spot which it describes, and amidst the life which it pictures, is continually haunted by the suggestion that George Eliot understood neither Italy nor the Italians.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

The soldiers were ordered to spread around and watch, and then we commenced to examine the ruins.
— from Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker

At last it was settled by lot that Zeus should reign supreme in Heaven, whilst Aïdes governed the Lower World, and Poseidon had full command over the Sea, but the supremacy of Zeus was recognized in all three kingdoms, in heaven, on earth (in which of course the sea was included), and under the earth.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

The case of death, or of expulsion, which is, in fact, masonic death, is different, because all the rights possessed during life cease ex necessitate rei , and forever lapse at the time of the said physical or masonic death; and in the latter case, a restoration to all the rights and privileges of Masonry would not restore the party to any office which he had held at the time of his expulsion.
— from The Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Landmarks of Freemasonry by Albert Gallatin Mackey

Ab′botsford, the country-seat of Sir Walter Scott, on the south bank of the Tweed, in Roxburghshire, 3 miles from Melrose, in the midst of picturesque scenery, forming an extensive and irregular pile in the Scottish baronial style of architecture.—
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

Clouds form part of the arms of Leeson, which are: "Gules, a chief nebuly argent, the rays of the sun issuing therefrom or."
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Dubito : only too often shall I have occasion to show that the reverse is true.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The second part of the spell is called tapwana , literally: ‘surface,’ ‘skin,’ ‘body,’ ‘trunk,’ ‘middle part’ of a tree, ‘main part’ of a road, and thus ‘main part’ of a spell or song.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

As in the description of the Second Circle the atmosphere is represented as malignant, being murky and disturbed with tempest; so the Malebolge is called malignant too, being all of barren iron-coloured rock.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

But it was not till I had visited the same spot a dozen times, that I came to a right comprehension of the grandeur of the scene.'
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

The frequency of the occurrence of a difference of character between classical and English metres similarly named is not a matter of accident , but is, in many cases, a necessity arising out of the structure of the English language as compared with that of the Greek and Latin—especially the Greek.
— from The English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham

"They are as superior to all School Atlases within our knowledge, as were the larger works of the same Author in advance of those that preceded them."— Educational Times.
— from Cattle and Cattle-breeders by William McCombie

Of the slight differences which distinguish the buildings of the two peoples the most noticeable is the treatment of the roof.
— from Indo-China and Its Primitive People by Henry Baudesson

But I pray thee (and all this while the gentleman wept) that thou wouldest not remember against us our transgressions, nor take offence at the unqualifiedness of thy servants, but mercifully pass by the sin of Mansoul, and refrain from the glorifying of thy grace no longer.’
— from The Holy War, Made by King Shaddai Upon Diabolus, for the Regaining of the Metropolis of the World; Or, The Losing and Taking Again of the Town of Mansoul by John Bunyan

Bellarminus thought he could prove the truth of the story by the fact that, at the end of it, the author himself invokes the two saints Barlaam and Josaphat!
— from Chips from a German Workshop, Volume 4 Essays Chiefly on the Science of Language by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller

Dr. Skinner had been among the leaders of the so-called New School branch of the Presbyterian Church.
— from The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss by George Lewis Prentiss

The north steaming error is independent of the design of the compass, and is determined by the speed of the ship, the latitude in which it is sailing, and the course which it is following.
— from The Gyroscopic Compass: A Non-Mathematical Treatment by T. W. (Thomas Wightman) Chalmers

And because such felicity in others, is not sensible but by comparison with their own actuall miseries; it followeth that they are to suffer such bodily paines, and calamities, as are incident to those, who not onely live under evill and cruell Governours, but have also for Enemy, the Eternall King of the Saints, God Almighty.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

This the boys did, swearing to the truth of the statement they had made.
— from The Iron Boys as Foremen; or, Heading the Diamond Drill Shift by James R. Mears

Such grace of action, such invariable delicacy and perfect taste of her little pictures, belong only to a mind of the sweetest order—the spontaneity and style, only to an artist of the rarest instinct.
— from Kate Greenaway by M. H. (Marion Harry) Spielmann