Knowledge and meaning All knowledge, all science, thus aims to grasp the meaning of objects and events, and this process always consists in taking them out of their apparent brute isolation as events, and finding them to be parts of some
— from How We Think by John Dewey

Three military (Latin) colonies were founded to hold the Gauls in check; PLACENTIA and CREMÓNA in the territory of the Insubres, and MUTINA in that of the Boii.
— from Ancient Rome : from the earliest times down to 476 A. D. by Robert F. Pennell

Their joys and pleasures, their peace and contentation in the things of this life, are but like “the crackling of thorns under a pot,” that makes a great noise, but vanishes quickly in a filthy security, Eccles.
— from The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning

The Indian demands pomp and ceremony in the transaction of affairs.
— from Land of the Burnt Thigh by Edith Eudora Kohl

Instead of laboriously piling small squares of wood one upon another in an endeavor to build the tiny semblance of a house, I now, in this second childhood of mine, projected against thin air phantom edifices planned and completed in the twinkling of an eye.
— from A Mind That Found Itself: An Autobiography by Clifford Whittingham Beers

An hour later, Procopius admitted Cethegus into the tent of the commander-in-chief.
— from A Struggle for Rome, v. 2 by Felix Dahn

Such a view gives us indeed a new insight into the Hebrew religion, which linked the first of social truths with a divine faith; it is the anticipation of his Gospel, who has taught us that the love of parent and children is the type of our holier bond in the family of Christ.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 03, April 1883 by Chautauqua Institution

What, then, is the principle which, for nearly half a century, has been strangely overlooked, and utterly disregarded by the so-called regular profession, so far as the maxims of rational practice are concerned in the treatment of this disease?
— from Asiatic Cholera: A treatise on its origin, pathology, treatment, and cure by Elijah Whitney

The men enjoyed it and laughed a great deal over it, when Sergeant Fulford came up and tore down the paper, and carried it to the officer's tent.
— from Memoirs of a Veteran Who Served as a Private in the 60's in the War Between the States Personal Incidents, Experiences and Observations by I. (Isaac) Hermann

The principal agents concerned in the transfer of pollen from one flower to another are the wind and insects, but it is evident that the work is done, in the case of the primrose, by insects; for not only do we find that the anthers and the stigma are protected from the wind, being more or less hidden in the tube of the corolla, but the showy corolla, the delicate scent emitted by the flower, and the nectar produced at the base of the tube all combine to encourage nectar-loving insects whose proboscis is long enough to reach the sweets.
— from Field and Woodland Plants by William S. Furneaux

GRT or gross register tonnage is a figure obtained by measuring the entire sheltered volume of a ship available for cargo and passengers and converting it to tons on the basis of 100 cubic feet per ton; there is no stable relationship between GRT and DWT.
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency