They walked along the road, Scrooge recognising every gate, and post, and tree; until a little market-town appeared in the distance, with its bridge, its church, and winding river.
— from A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas by Charles Dickens

The description of old age is finished, and Plato, as his manner is, has touched the key-note of the whole work in asking for the definition of justice, first suggesting the question which Glaucon afterwards pursues respecting external goods, and preparing for xviii the concluding mythus of the world below in the slight allusion of Cephalus.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

The description of old age is finished, and Plato, as his manner is, has touched the key-note of the whole work in asking for the definition of justice, first suggesting the question which Glaucon afterwards pursues respecting external goods, and preparing for the concluding mythus of the world below in the slight allusion of Cephalus.
— from The Republic by Plato

They walked along the road, Scrooge recognising every gate, and post, and tree, until a little market-town appeared in the distance, with its bridge, its church,
— from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

The chapel and its vestry were filled with rich ecclesiastical garments and plate, chalices, pattens, candlesticks, and reading-desks, in gold and silver-gilt, enriched with gems, enamel, and embroidery, a number of illuminated liturgies, and a set of tapestries, showing the adoration of the Magi, with Balthasar, the traditional ancestor of the house.
— from A Spring Walk in Provence by Archibald Marshall

Ethel A. Nott ; Evening Grosbeaks at Port Henry, N. Y. , Dora B. Harris ; Evening Grosbeak at Glen Falls, N. Y. , E. Eveleen Hathaway ; Evening Grosbeaks at Saratoga Springs, N. Y. , Jacolyn Manning, M. D. ; The Evening Grosbeak at Boston , E. G. and R. E. Robbins ; Evening Grosbeaks at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. , George W. Gray ; Evening Grosbeaks in Lexington, Mass. , Winsor M. Tyler, M. D. ; Evening Grosbeaks in Vermont , L. H. Potter ; Evening Grosbeaks in Connecticut , Mary Hazen Arnold ; Martin Problems , May S. Danner ; A Bold Winter Wren , Edward J. F. Marx .
— from Bird-Lore, March-April 1916 by Various

H I. Section through the dorsal region of a Pristiurus -embryo in which the rudimentary external gills are present as very small knobs.
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 1 (of 4) Separate Memoirs by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour

If we give thanks to our human benefactors, how much more should we thank God, our greatest Benefactor, from whom we receive every good and perfect gift!
— from Lessons in the Small Catechism of Dr. Martin Luther For the Senior Department of Lutheran Sunday-Schools and for General Use by George Mezger

She also encouraged in every manner the cultivation of Greek letters; and the support she gave to Greek poets and litterateurs gave umbrage to the narrow religionists, who regarded everything Greek as pagan.
— from Women of Early Christianity by Mitchell Carroll

"It is the most curious thing," she said, "how people obediently follow each other along a particular road, like a flock of sheep, no matter what roads, equally good and possibly better, open to the right and the left.
— from Dorothy, and Other Italian Stories by Constance Fenimore Woolson

Among the best cheeses are Stilton, Cheshire, Camembert, Gorgonzola, Rocquefort, Edam, Gruyère, and Parmesan.
— from The Century Cook Book by Mary Ronald

When a foreign religion enters ground already preempted by twenty-five centuries of such a strongly organized religion as Buddhism, transitions may also be reckoned by centuries.
— from Among the Burmans: A Record of Fifteen Years of Work and its Fruitage by Henry Park Cochrane