Now long-continued anger, and frequent giving way to it, produces an evil disposition of soul, which people call irascibility, and which ends in passionateness, bitterness, and peevishness, whenever the mind becomes sore and vexed at trifles and querulous at everyday occurrences, like iron thin and beaten out too fine.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

In 1796, St. George Tucker, professor of law in the University of William and Mary, and Judge of the General Court, published an elaborate dissertation on slavery, addressed to the General Assembly of the State, and urging upon them the abolition of slavery by law .
— from The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4 by American Anti-Slavery Society

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— from The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

98:— "Human nature can hardly be represented more [118] debased than in the character of the Silenus, where the bulging line runs through all the features of the face, as well as the other parts of this swinish body; whereas, in the satyr of the wood, though the ancients have joined the brute with the man, we still see preserved an elegant display of serpentine lines that renders it graceful."
— from Hogarth's Works, with life and anecdotal descriptions of his pictures. Volume 3 (of 3) by John Ireland

Lilly went horseback riding with Von Prell almost every day, or she met him at twilight, as if by chance, in deserted parts of the park.
— from The Song of Songs by Hermann Sudermann

And Lochinvar is perfect at every detail of sheep-work.
— from Lad: A Dog by Albert Payson Terhune

The main reasons for the defects and shortcomings thus developed in a scheme on which so much care and preparation had been bestowed were (1) that, while based on fundamentally sound principles, the scheme in its actual application threw too great a strain on the department of the Inspector-General of Communications, which, as we have seen, was expected to look after, not only rail transport, but route marching, telegraphs, postal arrangements, and a great variety of other things besides; (2) that, owing to the larger number of Army Corps, it was no longer possible, as had been done in 1866, to place a separate line of railway at the disposal of each, so as to allow the said department to superintend the traffic on the basis of its own organisation; and (3) the absence of a central administration specially designed ( a ) to act as an intermediary and to ensure co-operation and mutual working between the various Line Commissions and, also, between the individuals and administrations, both military and civil, engaged in the conduct of rail-transport; and ( b ) to control the traffic as a whole, avoiding difficulties, blocks and delays assuring a prompt and efficient distribution of supplies, and guaranteeing the utilisation of rolling stock to the best advantage.
— from The Rise of Rail-Power in War and Conquest, 1833-1914 by Edwin A. Pratt

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— from The 2003 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Space there has more dimensions than it has on the physical plane, and each dimension of space adds a new fundamental variety to form; if to illustrate this I may use a simile I have often used, it may perhaps convey to you a little idea of what I mean.
— from Avatâras Four lectures delivered at the twenty-fourth anniversary meeting of the Theosophical Society at Adyar, Madras, December, 1899 by Annie Besant