For they need to have a quick perception and knowledge of harmonies and rhythms; otherwise, how can they ever know whether a melody would be rightly sung to the Dorian mode, or to the rhythm which the poet has assigned to it? CLEINIAS:
— from Laws by Plato

Since then the "party in power" has always, through its chief member, the Prime Minister, and his Cabinet, been the actual ruler in the State.
— from With Marlborough to Malplaquet: A Story of the Reign of Queen Anne by Richard Stead

The first recital at the Salle Erard in 1888 was, indeed, but poorly attended, and, except that no performer of genius ever makes his first appearance without his reputation having preceded him among the inner circle of his brother musicians, the début might have fallen as flat as the ordinary recital by an ordinary, unknown pianist.
— from Ignaz Jan Paderewski by Edward Algernon Baughan

The representatives of three thousand country parishes, with their pennons, had arranged themselves in closely packed rows on each side of the carriage.
— from The Life of Carmen Sylva (Queen of Roumania) by Natalie Stackelberg

I will only say that I am employed at present as a waiter at the Planters Hotel, and though I can't save up much money, I am able to live comfortable.
— from The Young Bank Messenger by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

[8] See Petrie, Hyksos and the Israelite Cities , p. 191, ff.
— from Archæology and the Bible by George A. (George Aaron) Barton

I drew a little, of course, and had my sketch-book filled, student-like, with bits of architecture, peasants, horses, and things I came across every day; but I knew I could never reproduce the angelic smile on the Madonna’s face, and that was the one thing that made it greater than all the bas-reliefs I had seen in all my wanderings.
— from The Arm-Chair at the Inn by Francis Hopkinson Smith

—Another Ega monkey, nearly related to the Uakarís, is the Parauacú (Pithecia hirsuta), a timid inoffensive creature with a long bear-like coat of harsh speckled-grey hair.
— from The Naturalist on the River Amazons by Henry Walter Bates

He was wearing the same plumed hat and that identical coat, buttoned all down the front, with the pockets low down on either side.
— from Berry and Co. by Dornford Yates