Since that time the ostrich and his race have never been able to rise in the air; they can only fly terror-stricken along the ground, or run round and round in narrow circles.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

For months afterwards, I every day settled the question finally in the negative, and reopened and reargued it next morning.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

In plur., the rostra , the speaker’s stand in the Roman Forum rota, -ae , f. wheel Rubicō, -ōnis , m. the Rubicon , a river in northern Italy.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

My DEAR GENERAL: I have just received and read, I need not tell you with how mush gratification, your letter to General Halleck.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

And if such a tribe come here the place will go to rack and ruin in no time—an old place goes down so quickly if it is not carefully attended to.
— from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

This is a tolerably fair statement of the difficulty which on these grounds arises in respect of the Equitable; but, in fact, all these may be reconciled and really involve no contradiction: for the Equitable is Just, being also better than one form of Just, but is not better than the Just as though it were different from it in kind: Just and Equitable then are identical, and, both being good, the Equitable is the better of the two.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

His mind, as if magnetised again by his speech, seemed to circle slowly round and round its new centre.
— from Dubliners by James Joyce

In this train of mind, the early days of October having already stolen on him, an incident occurred which startled him in his retirement, and rendered it necessary that he should instantly quit it.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

, the rostra , the speaker's stand in the Roman Forum rota, -ae , f. wheel Rubicô, -ônis , m. the Rubicon , a river in northern Italy.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Angola Angolan Armed Forces (FAA): Army, Navy (Marinha de Guerra Angola, MGA), Angolan National Air Force (Forca Aerea Nacional Angolana, FANA) (2009) Antigua and Barbuda Royal Antigua and Barbuda Defense Force (2009) Argentina Argentine Army (Ejercito Argentino), Navy of the Argentine Republic (Armada Republica; includes naval aviation and naval infantry), Argentine Air Force (Fuerza Aerea Argentina, FAA) (2009) Armenia Armed Forces: Ground Forces, Air Force and Air Defense, Nagorno-Karabakh Self Defense Force (NKSDF) (2009) Aruba no regular military forces; the Netherlands maintains a detachment of marines, a frigate, and an amphibious combat detachment in the neighboring Netherlands Antilles (2009)
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

1821 A congress of the European powers, held at Laibach, in Austria, determined to suppress the liberal movement in Italy and to restore absolute rule in Naples.
— from The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 3 May 1906 by Various

[Pg 323] "Not inside," she said, shaking her brown head with the soft hair wound round and round it, "not inside.
— from Bonnie Prince Fetlar: The Story of a Pony and His Friends by Marshall Saunders

[Pg 496] Truth is reality, and reality is never either glad or sad, since it comprehends both these categories in itself, and therefore surpasses them both.
— from Logic as the Science of the Pure Concept by Benedetto Croce

The Royal American Regiment is now the 60th Rifles.
— from The Conquest of Canada, Vol. 2 by George Warburton

The Battery Rheostat .--As with the receptors a rheostat is needed to regulate the current that heats the filament.
— from The Radio Amateur's Hand Book A Complete, Authentic and Informative Work on Wireless Telegraphy and Telephony by A. Frederick (Archie Frederick) Collins

“I’ll have you right as rain in no time at all, sir,” and started to conduct him off the dock.
— from Ruggles of Red Gap by Harry Leon Wilson

"The boy," saith he, "hath got his own, But sore has been the fight, For ere his life began the strife That ceased but yesternight; For the will," he said, "the kinsfolk read, And read it not aright.
— from Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. by Jean Ingelow