Note 81 ( return ) [ {os Skuthas einai}: cp. ii. 8.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

But she did not answer, laughing still, as at the recollection of something exceedingly comical.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

I saw through the steamy window huge electric lights glaring down from tall masts upon a fog, saw rows of stationary empty carriages passing by, and then a signal-box, hoisting its constellation of green and red into the murky London twilight, marched after them.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Procrustes was a robber of such extreme cruelty that he used to stretch out, or lop off, the extremities of his captives, according as they were shorter or longer than his bedstead.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

That liberation, it is evident, can never be brought about, without either some very considerable augmentation of the public revenue, or some equally considerable reduction of the public expense.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

The narrow and tortuous avenue they threaded was gloomy in the extreme, affording scarcely any glimpse of the sky, and opening out no vistas between the serried ranks of steins, each clothed in a covering of velvet moss, and all looped together by the parasitical vines, whose boles were often as thick as cables.
— from In Search of the Okapi A Story of Adventure in Central Africa by Ernest Glanville

You never knew you could reel off such entertainin' chat.
— from Torchy and Vee by Sewell Ford

In between these two great lines lies the dry and almost rainless district known to the ambitious western mind as the Great American Desert, enclosing in its midst that slowly evaporating inland sea, the Great Salt Lake, a last relic of some extinct chain of mighty waters once comparable to Superior, Erie, and Ontario.
— from Falling in Love; With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science by Grant Allen

3. To no other 'Right' than that of a People either personally or representatively making their own Laws, whereby they may be 'protected from Wrong,' can this remark of Sir Edward Coke possibly apply.
— from A Short History of English Liberalism by W. Lyon (Walter Lyon) Blease

Never were seen such ruffles, or such embroidered cuffs and lappets!
— from The Tailor of Gloucester by Beatrix Potter

Shake the bottles for a full minute to mix thoroughly the ingredients, then place them on end in a refrigerator, or some equally cool place, to ferment slowly.
— from A Handbook of Invalid Cooking For the Use of Nurses in Training, Nurses in Private Practice, and Others Who Care for the Sick by Mary A. Boland

"Can't you tell that by our clothes?" The old man's face brightened a little, but then a reminder of sorrowful experience clouded it again.
— from Si Klegg, Book 4 Experiences of Si and Shorty on the Great Tullahoma Campaign by John McElroy

The results of such experiments concern us here only in the most general way.
— from The Sources of Religious Insight by Josiah Royce

316 leveland: In all the realm of artistic history no record of such extremes can be found in one life as those seen in the life of Mozart.
— from Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians by Elbert Hubbard