No calamity so accursed but M. Emanuel could pity and forgive, if it were acknowledged candidly; but where his questioning eyes met dishonest denial—where his ruthless researches found deceitful concealment—oh, then, he could be cruel, and I thought wicked!
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

Caryatides from Treasury of Cnidians, Delphi 7 Caryatides of Erechtheum, Athens 7 Caryatid in Villa Albani, Rome 7 Caryatides 7 Persians 9 Construction of City Walls 23 Tower of the Winds, Athens 26 Diagram of the Winds 29 Diagram of Directions of Streets 30 Vitruvius' Brick-Bond 44 Travertine Quarries, Roman Campagna 49 Example of Opus Incertum, Circular Temple, Tivoli 51 Opus Reticulatum, Thermae of Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli 52 Example of Opus Reticulatum, Doorway of Stoa Poecile, Hadrian's Villa 53 Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, restored 55 Classification of Temples according to Arrangements of Colonnades 77 Hypaethral Temple of Vitruvius compared with Parthenon and Temple of Apollo near Miletus 77 Classification of Temples according to Intercolumniation 79 Eustyle Temple of Vitruvius compared with Temple of Teos 81 Vitruvius' Rules for Diameter and Height of Columns compared with Actual Examples 85 Diminution of Columns in Relation to Dimensions of Height 85 Entasis of Columns 88 Fra Giocondo's Idea of "Scamilli Impares " 89 Ionic Order according to Vitruvius compared with Order of Mausoleum at Halicarnassus 91 Comparison of Ionic Order according to Vitruvius with Actual Examples and with Vignola's Order 95 Basilica at Pompeii 105 Corinthian Capital of Vitruvius compared with Monuments 105 Vitruvius' Doric Order compared with Temple at Cori and Theatre of Marcellus 111 Vitruvius' Temple Plan compared with Actual Examples 115 Vitruvius' Rule for Doorways compared with Two Examples 119 Tuscan Temple according to Vitruvius 121 Circular Temple, Tivoli 123 Maison Carrée, Nîmes 123 Plan of Temple, Tivoli 123 Plan of Temple of Vesta, Rome 123 Plan of Circular Temple according to Vitruvius 124
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

He had no ear for music himself, and never went to church, as being of the medical profession, and likely to be in requisition for delicate cows.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot

Chia Jui, Chin Jung and in fact the whole crowd of them were, for this reason, just harbouring a jealous grudge against these two, so that when he saw Ch'in Chung and Hsiang Lin come on this occasion and lodge a complaint against Chin Jung, Chia Jui readily felt displeasure creep into his heart; and, although he did not venture to call Ch'in Chung to account, he nevertheless made an example of Hsiang Lin.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

Influence of Stoicism Busson, Henry, La pensée religieuse Française de Charron à Pascal .
— from The Enchiridion by Epictetus

Curtius, one of their chiefs, a man with a reputation for dashing courage, rode on horseback far before the rest.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

[96] C. Stenophylla, From Which Is Obtained the Highland Coffee of Sierra Leone Columnaris , a vigorous variety, sometimes reaching a height of 25 feet, having leaves rounded at the base and rather broad, but a shy bearer, recommended for dry climates.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Successive formations are separated from each other by enormous blank intervals of time; for fossiliferous formations, thick enough to resist future degradation, can be accumulated only where much sediment is deposited on the subsiding bed of the sea.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

[—Rigidum fera dextera cornu Dum tenet, infregit, truncaque a fronte revellit.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Farrer, Mr., explorations of, 36 ; on coins, 102 ; on remains from Dowkerbottom cave, 113 ; stalagmite, 39 .
— from Cave Hunting Researches on the evidence of caves respecting the early inhabitants of Europe by William Boyd Dawkins

J.C. Runkle 340 297 Modern Dresden Porcelain D. Collamore 341 298 Berlin Porcelain D. Collamore 341 299 Berlin Porcelain Vase August Belmont 342 RUSSIA, DENMARK, & SCANDINAVIA 300 Russian Faience D. Collamore 344 301 , 302 Swedish Faience William Astor 345 , 346 303 Norwegian Faience W.B. Dickerman 347 304 , 306 Ipsen Terra-cotta Ovington Brothers 348 , 349 307 Wendrich Terra-cotta T. Schmidt 350 308 Copenhagen Porcelain Mrs J.V.L. Pruyn
— from The Ceramic Art A Compendium of The History and Manufacture of Pottery and Porcelain by Jennie J. Young

Please, Mr. Hilton said was you ready for dinner?" "Certainly; and, Simmonds, where's Nous?" "Tied up, sir, in the stable.
— from To-morrow? by Victoria Cross

The timely resignation of John Armstrong from the United States Senate made room for DeWitt Clinton, who, however, a year later, resigned the senatorship to become mayor of New York.
— from A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 by De Alva Stanwood Alexander

The same is true of the fact that the Greeks and Romans did retain much of their culture even in contact with lower grades of civilization, handing it down, in a degree, to this day; and that their conquerors only in the lapse of many generations pulled themselves up to this level, which was attained, at last, rather in countries removed from direct contact with it and so, we may argue, to a great extent, through their own natural evolution.
— from A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by Cora May Williams

I am apt to think that it will be a mosaic Ministry, made up 'de pieces rapportees' from different connections.
— from Letters to His Son, 1766-71 On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman by Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of

Of the interesting places of Epirus, memorable in history, ranks first Dodona, celebrated for its oracle, the most ancient in Greece, and only inferior to that of Delphi.
— from Ancient States and Empires For Colleges and Schools by John Lord

The most common type of the Etruscans, as transmitted to us on cinerary vases, is that of squat men, often inclining to obesity, with broad shoulders, prominent face, curved noses, broad retreating forehead, dark complexion, dolichocephalous skull, and curly hair.
— from The Earth and its inhabitants, Volume 1: Europe. Greece, Turkey in Europe, Rumania, Servia, Montenegro, Italy, Spain, and Portugal. by Elisée Reclus