But it was only a reprint of what Decker had given sixty years before.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

His beard he sometimes clipped, and sometimes shaved; and either read or wrote during the operation.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

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— from Relativity : the Special and General Theory by Albert Einstein

Let us but consider the connected revolutions of the sun, the moon, and the five planets, without the revolution of which, due to mechanism, we should not have had the alternation of day and night, nor the ripening of fruits.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

This was the only ground of that war in which they engaged with the Nephelogetes against the Aleopolitanes, a little before our time; for the merchants of the former having, as they thought, met with great injustice among the latter, which (whether it was in itself right or wrong) drew on a terrible war, in which many of their neighbours were engaged; and their keenness in carrying it on being supported by their strength in maintaining it, it not only shook some very flourishing states and very much afflicted others, but, after a series of much mischief ended in the entire conquest and slavery of the Aleopolitanes, who, though before the war they were in all respects much superior to the Nephelogetes, were yet subdued; but, though the Utopians had assisted them in the war, yet they pretended to no share of the spoil.
— from Utopia by More, Thomas, Saint

Happy moments which I can no longer enjoy, but the sweet remembrance of which death alone can make me lose!
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

And men in general recall only with difficulty the things of another world, but the mind of the philosopher has a better remembrance of them.
— from Phaedrus by Plato

I have too vivid a recollection of weary days and nights spent in those stewing tenements, trying to get to the bottom of the vexatious question only to find myself in the end as far from the truth as at the beginning, asking with rising wrath Pilate’s question, “What is truth?”
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

outside, and the old hostler quietly and quickly came in; he got one horse out, and went to another, but the flames were playing round the trapdoor, and the roaring overhead was dreadful.
— from Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

It must be the semi-surgical instrument for pruning roses, of which Dr. Ramsay had told her.
— from A Sovereign Remedy by Flora Annie Webster Steel

With respect to the second objection, that there would be a considerable interval between the rise of the price of corn and the rise of wages, during which much distress would be experienced by the lower classes,—I answer, that under different circumstances, wages follow the price of raw produce with very different degrees of celerity; that in some cases no effect whatever is produced on wages by a rise of corn; in others, the rise of wages precedes the rise in the price of corn; again, in some the effect is slow, and in others the interval must be very short.
— from On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation by David Ricardo

Old Momus with triumph and tearful exultation was holding out to Laodice a heavy roll of writings, dangling important seals, ancient papers showing yellow beside the fresh parchment, and an old record dark with long handling.
— from The City of Delight: A Love Drama of the Siege and Fall of Jerusalem by Elizabeth Miller

"Go thou to Rome—at once the paradise, The grave, the city, and the wilderness; And where its wrecks like shattered mountains rise, And flowering weeds, and fragrant copses dress The bones of desolation's nakedness, Pass, till the spirit of the spot shall lead Thy footsteps to a slope of green access, Where, like an infant's smile, over the dead, A light of laughing flowers along the grass is spread, "And grey walls moulder round, on which dull Time Feeds, like slow fire upon a hoary brand; And one keen pyramid, with wedge sublime, Pavilioning the dust of him who planned This refuge for his memory, doth stand Like flame transformed to marble; and beneath A field is spread, on which a newer band Have pitched in Heaven's smile their camp of death, Welcoming him we lose with scarce extinguished breath."
— from Walks in Rome by Augustus J. C. (Augustus John Cuthbert) Hare

Such also was the ambition of others upon the like occasion, as appeareth by that very sharp wars and of a long continuance have been made of old betwixt some residentiary kings in Cappadocia upon this only debate, of whose name a certain herb should have the appellation; by reason of which difference, so troublesome and expensive to them all, it was by them called Polemonion, and by us for the same cause termed Make-bate.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Ancient religious suites, and royal ones were disapproved.
— from The Tapestry Book by Helen Churchill Candee

The Mysterious Wagon 31 Detectives Inspecting the Spot Where the Trunk Was Found 42 The Bloody Trunk and Its Contents 35 Picture of Dr. Cronin Taken After He Was Found In The Catch-Basin with the "Agnus Dei" on Breast 135 Scene at the Morgue, Showing the Body Lying on Slab and Being Identified by Scanlan and Conklin 140 The Spot Where the Trunk Was Found 33 The Skull of Dr. Cronin, Showing the Wounds 143 The Broken Rocker on which Dr. Cronin Probably Sat when Killed 161 Blood-Stained Piece of Brass
— from The Crime of the Century; Or, The Assassination of Dr. Patrick Henry Cronin by Henry M. Hunt

Seeing that the road over which Dîpankara had to pass was dirty, he threw himself down in the mire in order that the Buddha might tread on him and not soil his feet.
— from Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 by Eliot, Charles, Sir