Having got rid of foreign enemies, 567 he makes himself necessary to the State by always going to war.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

But it roused only faint enthusiasm, which faded out, with no reply.
— from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

Blue-coat boys still have this right of free entrance to the Tower; but the lions are no more.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

The MIT (Massachussets Institute of Technology) Media Lab, Microsoft and many others are working on computer recognition of facial expressions, biometric access identification via the face, etc.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Thus, as the wheel in going forward carries with it the lowest [302] drum, and as the tooth of this at every revolution strikes against the teeth of the upper drum, and makes it move along, the result will be that the upper drum is carried round once for every four hundred revolutions of the lowest, and that the tooth fixed to its side pushes forward one tooth of the horizontal drum.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

So the realms of Frode embraced Russia on the east, and on the west were bounded by the Rhine.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

I know, replied he, that in fact these persecutions never, in any age, proceeded from calm reason, or from experience of the pernicious consequences of philosophy; but arose entirely from passion and prejudice.
— from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

The colonists abandoned commerce and agriculture, raising only food enough for immediate consumption, and were given to arms and hunting.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

But whilst, to learn their lots in nuptial love, Bright Cytherea sought the bower of Jove (The God supreme, to whose eternal eye The registers of fate expanded lie; Wing'd Harpies snatch the unguarded charge away, And to the Furies bore a grateful prey.
— from The Odyssey by Homer

The real or fabulous embassy of the Romans to Alexander (A. U. C. 430) is attested by Clitarchus, (Plin. iii. 9,) by Aristus and Asclepiades, (Arrian.
— 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

280 SEPTEMBER 22 BREAKFAST LUNCHEON Baked apples with cream Cantaloupe Plain scrambled eggs Pompano en papillote Dry toast Broiled sweetbreads on toast Coffee Succotash Soufflée potatoes French pastry Demi tasse DINNER California oyster cocktail Consommé Trianon Ripe olives Fried eels, sauce rémoulade Breast of chicken with figs Artichokes, sauce Italienne Broiled fresh mushrooms Potatoes à la Reine Romaine salad, Roquefort dressing Biscuit glacé, St. Francis Alsatian wafers Coffee Consommé Trianon.
— from The Hotel St. Francis Cook Book by Victor Hirtzler

In some directions they reach out for eight miles, as in the case of College Park, Decatur and the Chattahoochee River.
— from Atlanta: A Twentieth-Century City by Atlanta Chamber of Commerce

This idea of ascribing scientific knowledge to the early teachers results only from erroneous belief that no other means of training the voice is possible.
— from The Psychology of Singing A Rational Method of Voice Culture Based on a Scientific Analysis of All Systems, Ancient and Modern by David C. (David Clark) Taylor

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold: $78.96 million (2006 est.)
— from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold: $40.54 million (2003) Debt - external: $81.2 million (2004)
— from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Your masters reject the duties of this vulgar relation, as contrary to liberty, as not founded in the social compact, and not binding according to the rights of men; because the relation is not, of course, the result of free election ,—never so on the side of the children, not always on the part of the parents.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

They all gave their pledges, and the Major went on: “There is enough of these remarkably rich ores for everyone.
— from The Treasure of Hidden Valley by Willis George Emerson

“It is always our endeavour, after making experiments, to generalise the conclusions we draw from them, and by this means to form a theory , or system of principles , to which all the facts may be reduced, and by means of which we may be able 219 to foretell the results of future experiments....
— from Joseph Priestley by T. E. (Thomas Edward) Thorpe

To hold the frivolous-minded she paints her face and dances, leading them a round of folly, exhaustive alike to health and purse.
— from The Ways of Men by Eliot Gregory