The judgment of the two old sages, Cadmus and Tiresias, seems to be also the judgment of the [Pg 95] aged poet: that the reflection of the wisest individuals does not overthrow old popular traditions, nor the perpetually propagating worship of Dionysus, that in fact it behoves us to display at least a diplomatically cautious concern in the presence of such strange forces: where however it is always possible that the god may take offence at such lukewarm participation, and finally change the diplomat—in this case Cadmus—into a dragon.
— from The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

But Erasistratus said nothing about this, nor did he point out that the oblique situation of the gullet clearly confutes the teaching of those who hold that it is simply by virtue of the impulse from above that food which is swallowed reaches the stomach.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

"But that's simply an olive shell of the 'tent olive' species, genus Oliva , order Pectinibranchia , class Gastropoda , branch Mollusca —" "Yes, yes, Conseil!
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

The oars were inside the longboat and we had only to take our seats.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

It was a sort of test trial of strength between the lawyers.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

[612] However, we have not spoken of the theory of Spencer.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

Now if we suppose that the end of the tail of some ancient American species was enlarged, and was covered by a single large scale, this could hardly have been cast off at the successive moults.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

The sultan disdained to pursue the fugitive Greeks; but he meditated the more glorious conquest of Turkestan, the original seat of the house of Seljuk.
— 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

However, out of the common charges, baked bread [was set on the table of shew-bread], without leaven, of twenty-four tenth deals of flour, for so much is spent upon this bread; two heaps of these were baked, they were baked the day before the sabbath, but were brought into the holy place on the morning of the sabbath, and set upon the holy table, six on a heap, one loaf still standing over against another; where two golden cups full of frankincense were also set upon them, and there they remained till another sabbath, and then other loaves were brought in their stead, while the loaves were given to the priests for their food, and the frankincense was burnt in that sacred fire wherein all their offerings were burnt also; and so other frankincense was set upon the loaves instead of what was there before.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Our own Hawthorne [Pg 151] in his preface to the "Scarlet Letter," and still more in the "Marble Faun," depicts the vacuity of a life sucking a parasitic existence through government organization, and asserts over and over that the only strength is in him or her—and it is noteworthy that the strongest is in "her"—who resolutely chooses and treads an unbeaten path.
— from Selected Works of Voltairine de Cleyre by Voltairine De Cleyre

An elaborate series of rules was framed for the prevention of the transit of slaves by sea, the conditions on which European powers were to grant to natives the right to fly the flag of the protecting power, and regulating the procedure connected with the right of search on vessels flying a foreign flag.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

Was not Napoleon justified if he feared that the son of a man who had shewn so great an affection to Prussia would not be an agreeable neighbour on the throne of Spain?
— from Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire by James Wycliffe Headlam

As, however, the leaf-formation in the ovary is generally imperfect, so also is the separation of the tissues or systems.
— from Elements of Physiophilosophy by Lorenz Oken

When they came in sight of Sangala's town, they pushed over to the other shore, out of the way, and took care to keep the Caroline between the enemy and themselves.
— from Stories of the Gorilla Country, Narrated for Young People by Paul B. (Paul Belloni) Du Chaillu

That the South, in the war period, was essentially a country of horseback riders, and her young men furnished the material out of which was formed, when properly handled, regiments of cavalry that were practically invincible, even when confronting an adversary of twice or thrice their own strength.
— from Notes of a Private by John Milton Hubbard

The Suevians were a more difficult enemy to cope with, however, consolidating their power in Galicia, and at one time they overran southern Spain, although they were soon obliged to abandon it.
— from A History of Spain founded on the Historia de España y de la civilización española of Rafael Altamira by Rafael Altamira

But now let it be observed that the revolution thus resulting would not be a substitution of a thousand more or less modified species for the thousand original species; but in place of the thousand original species there would arise several thousand species, or varieties, or changed forms.
— from Illustrations of Universal Progress: A Series of Discussions by Herbert Spencer

The wind went howling over the town of Skagen; it was blowing a perfect hurricane, such as had not been known in the memory of the oldest man living—it was most fearful weather.
— from The Sand-Hills of Jutland by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen