Although this ship had made so good a passage, she buried twenty-four convicts; twenty were sick, and many were in so emaciated a state, that scarcely any labour could be expected from them for some months.
— from An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island by John Hunter

“If we had any part,” wrote he, “it was the simple part of interpreters, of translators, of glossers; we have served as [Pg 156] spokesmen, that's all; but it is necessary to avoid reducing to a few propositions of a school, a movement which is so essentially working-class and the leading ideas of which, such as direct action and the general strike, are so specifically of a working-class character.”
— from Syndicalism in France by Lewis L. (Lewis Levitzki) Lorwin

He says a man went in, stayed ever so long, and came out finally with a big bag.
— from The Riddle of the Purple Emperor by Mary E. Hanshew

A Description of some Ancient Monuments with Inscriptions still existing in Lydia and Phrygia.
— from A History of Art in Ancient Egypt, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Charles Chipiez

Of the diameter of the sun he observes that Eudoxus had declared it to be nine times that of the moon, and his own father, Phidias, had made it twelve times, while Aristarchus had tried to prove that the diameter of the sun is greater than eighteen times but less than twenty times the diameter of the moon (this was in the treatise of Aristarchus On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon , which is still extant, and is an admirable piece of geometry, proving rigorously, on the basis of certain assumptions, the result stated).
— from Archimedes by Heath, Thomas Little, Sir