Shiftlessness and poverty reigned in the place.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

Accordingly Meletus did institute the prosecution; and Polyeuctus pronounced the sentence, as Phavorinus records in his Universal History.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

He appears to have been the first person who discovered that Hesperus and Lucifer were the same star, as Phavorinus records, in the fifth book of his Commentaries.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

[132] This view is suggested by Mr. Herbert Spencer’s statement—in a letter to J. S. Mill, published in Mr. Bain’s Mental and Moral Science ; and partially reprinted in Mr. Spencer’s Data of Ethics , chap.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

He called the surgeon and ordered him to set and bind up my skull where it was fractured; and presently having received his blessing, I was so much better that I mounted on horseback the next day, and travelled with him to another place; and being soon after perfectly recovered, I was washed in the water of life.”
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

Drawing for example, [Pg 60] has been taught on the theory that since all pictorial representation is a matter of combining straight and curved lines, the simplest procedure is to have the pupil acquire the ability first to draw straight lines in various positions (horizontal, perpendicular, diagonals at various angles), then typical curves; and finally, to combine straight and curved lines in various permutations to construct actual pictures.
— from How We Think by John Dewey

"But don't you think that if everybody, including the best people, thinkers and men of science, were to take part in the struggle for existence, each man for himself, and took to breaking stones and painting roofs, it would be a serious menace to progress?" "Where is the danger?"
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Among the works written by Nicholas Flamel on the subject of alchymy is The Philosophic Summary , a poem, reprinted in 1735, as an appendix to the third volume of the Roman de la Rose .
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

On top of each lay another thin fillet, season well with salt and pepper, roll in flour, then in beaten eggs, and finally in fresh bread crumbs.
— from The Hotel St. Francis Cook Book by Victor Hirtzler

Such a plan results in contests between the board and the superintendents, and such a contest is obviously an unequal one.
— from Report of the Committee of Fifteen Read at the Cleveland Meeting of the Department of Superintendence, February 19-21, 1884, with the Debate by William Torrey Harris

Now what such a part requires is some one who can dance, but who does act.
— from Richard Wagner His Life and His Dramas A Biographical Study of the Man and an Explanation of His Work by W. J. (William James) Henderson

Mr. Davis quietly left the church, but all understood and soon a panic reigned in the quiet old city.
— from The Real Jefferson Davis by Landon Knight

Percies, by dint of diligent study and practice, rapidly improved, and it was suggested to Mr. Lewis that he should open a private club at his own house.
— from The Exploits and Triumphs, in Europe, of Paul Morphy, the Chess Champion by Frederick Milnes Edge

Meaning to stay for a week or two I sought a pleasant room in a well-situated hotel, and I found one with a good view of town and harbour.
— from By the Ionian Sea: Notes of a Ramble in Southern Italy by George Gissing

Whether in the form of land, schools, administrative headquarters, secretariats, libraries, cemeteries, hostels or publishing companies, these widely scattered assets, partly registered in the name of incorporated National Assemblies, and partly held in trust by individual recognized believers, have contributed their share to the uninterrupted expansion of national Bahá’í endowments in recent years as well as to the consolidation of their foundations.
— from God Passes By by Effendi Shoghi

No eye, save that above—saw the dark, tall figure which glided within a yard of some of the savages, and plunged rapidly into the forest.
— from Scouting Dave: The Trail Hunter by James L. (James Lorenzo) Bowen