Perhaps the latest, although probably not the last, attempt to prove that a Latin farmer's family might have subsisted on two -jugera- of land, finds its chief support in the argument that Varro (de R. R. i. 44, i) reckons the seed requisite for the -jugerum- at five -modii- of wheat but ten -modii- of spelt, and estimates the produce as corresponding to this, whence it is inferred that the cultivation of spelt yielded a produce, if not double, at least considerably higher than that of wheat.
— from The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) by Theodor Mommsen

Habakkuk's prophecy is now dated as late as 600 (Driver in Hastings' D.B. art.
— from The Three Additions to Daniel, a Study by William Heaford Daubney

Gerard and Camille were to leave for an estate which Duvillard possessed in Normandy, directly after lunch.
— from The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 5 by Émile Zola

Progress is no doubt a law of the individual, of nations, and of the whole race.
— from Aesthetical Essays of Friedrich Schiller by Friedrich Schiller

She had no predilection for the ex-officer of dragoons; and besides the knowledge that he was the lover of her rival, there was another thought that now rendered his presence, if not disagreeable, at least not desirable.
— from The Headless Horseman: A Strange Tale of Texas by Mayne Reid

Was it for this that I outstripped all competitors at school, that I have been fancying myself a unique phenomenon in Nature, different at least from every other being that lives, that I should be spoken of as one of a class of young men ?
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 44, June, 1861 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

The attitude of mind assumed by women relatives, and especially those nearest and dearest, is sure to be communicated to the patient, if not directly at least indirectly and inadvertently, and makes for anything but relief from the depression that is sure to be his if he has any gleam of understanding of his condition.
— from Psychotherapy Including the History of the Use of Mental Influence, Directly and Indirectly, in Healing and the Principles for the Application of Energies Derived from the Mind to the Treatment of Disease by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

It would be, perhaps, if not dangerous, at least impolitic, to attack the author himself; but a hawker sent to the Bastille or fastened in the public market by an iron {126} carcanet is a matter of too little importance to be noticed by the public.”
— from Old and New Paris: Its History, Its People, and Its Places, v. 1 by H. Sutherland (Henry Sutherland) Edwards

This procedure is no doubt a logical consequence of Kultur .
— from Belgians Under the German Eagle by Jean Massart

"You say that Pontiac is now dead, at least Martin Super told us so.
— from The Settlers in Canada by Frederick Marryat