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— from The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe

These separated areas were marvelously suited to be the cradles of peoples; and if we look over the map of Europe we readily note the geographic insulations which that remarkably varied land affords.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Chick, H. , and Rhodes, M. : An Investigation of the Antiscorbutic Value of the Raw Juices of Root Vegetables, Lancet, London, 1918, II, 774.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

“We must make our start at once,” said Jefferson Hope, speaking in a low but resolute voice, like one who realizes the greatness of the peril, but has steeled his heart to meet it.
— from A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

In the Koran there is really very little said about the joys of Paradise; they are intimated rather than insisted on.
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

I did not remain very long on the brow of the hill, although long enough to make a thorough survey of the scene at my feet.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

Ro. 9.28; rectitude, virtue, Lu.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

M. 35 Rectius vives, Licini, neque altum / Semper urgendo, neque, dum procellas / Cautus horrescis, nimium premendo / Littus iniquum —You will live more prudently, Licinius, by neither always keeping out at sea, nor, while you warily shrink from storms, hugging too closely the treacherous shore.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

It was the most uncomfortable rapture I ever saw, However, they received very little plaguing.
— from Red Saunders' Pets and Other Critters by Henry Wallace Phillips

I read very little, and that little was rubbish.
— from Thoughts on Art and Autobiographical Memoirs of Giovanni Duprè by Giovanni Duprè

XIX There is, as a rule, very little loss of nitrogen by drainage while the wheat is growing on the ground, but after the wheat is cut, the grass and clover are pretty sure to take up all the available nitrogen within the range of their roots.
— from Talks on Manures A Series of Familiar and Practical Talks Between the Author and the Deacon, the Doctor, and Other Neighbors, on the Whole Subject by Joseph Harris

Then he retired, very low in spirits, to his state-room, to make his preparations for wholesale assault with a deadly weapon—possibly wholesale murder!
— from Cappy Ricks Retires: But That Doesn't Keep Him from Coming Back Stronger Than Ever by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne

He watched her with interest: he knew her fairly well, she retained very little enigma for him; yet she always amused him and he always found in her a fresh subject for study.
— from Majesty: A Novel by Louis Couperus

27 (P. 7 Edw. II.): 'Les femmes sont sans recouverie vers le seignior uiuant leur barons pur ce que ils sont villens.' Cf.
— from Villainage in England: Essays in English Mediaeval History by Paul Vinogradoff

Rodríguez Villa, La Corte y Monarquía de España, p. 16.
— from A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 1 by Henry Charles Lea

I might set downe examples of these things out of all the parts of this Iland, that is to saie, manie of England, more out of Scotland, but most of all out of Wales: in which two last rehearsed, verie little other food and liuelihood was wont to be looked for (beside flesh) more than the soile of it selfe, and the cow gaue; the people in the meane time liuing idelie, dissolutelie, and by picking and stealing one from another.
— from Chronicles (1 of 6): The Description of Britaine by William Harrison

Such a compound needle requires very little force to turn it one way or the other.
— from The Standard Electrical Dictionary A Popular Dictionary of Words and Terms Used in the Practice of Electrical Engineering by T. O'Conor (Thomas O'Conor) Sloane

With that rather vicious little cut Cicely expressed her feelings at a state of things in which, with fourteen or fifteen horses in the stable and half a dozen at the home farm, the only animal at the disposal of herself and her sisters was always wanted for something else whenever they asked for it.
— from The Squire's Daughter: Being the First Book in the Chronicles of the Clintons by Archibald Marshall