And straightway on a sudden there called to them in the midst of their course, speaking with a human voice, the beam of the hollow ship, which Athena had set in the centre of the stem, made of Dodonian oak.
— from The Argonautica by Rhodius Apollonius

For proof whereof, it appeareth in the church book of St. Andrew Undershafte, that in the year 1547 I. G. and S. K., then churchwardens, for eighty pints of Malmsey spent in the church, after one penny halfpenny the pint, paid at the year’s end for the same ten shillings.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

It has also been shown that armory was an evolution, and as a consequence it did not start, in this country at any rate, as a ready-made science with all its rules and laws completely known or promulgated.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Therefore, if he visits a foreign country, he makes arrangements to have his bones returned to China in case he dies; if he hires to go to a foreign country on a labor contract, there is always a stipulation that his body shall be taken back to China if he dies; if the government sells a gang of Coolies to a foreigner for the usual five-year term, it is specified in the contract that their bodies shall be restored to China in case of death.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

Such are our inward troubles; seen in the Cities of the South; extant, seen or unseen, in all cities and districts, North as well as South.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

The first has reintroduced flux into the conception of existence and the second into the conception of values.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

That department of anatomical research to which the name topographical strictly applies, as confining itself to the mere account of the form and relative location of the several organs comprising the animal body, is almost wholly isolated from the main questions of physiological and transcendental interest, and cannot, therefore, be supposed to speak in those comprehensive views which anatomy, taken in its widest signification as a science, necessarily includes.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

Would to heaven that the Bench of Bishops would, in some degree, adopt this excellent idea!—or at least that the Dean and Chapter of Westminster, and the other Managers of the Abbey Music Meetings, would in future allot the occasional vacancies of Madame Mara’s seat in the Cathedral Orchestra, for the reception of the reigning Laureat, during the performance of that favourite constitutional ballad, “May the King live for ever!”
— from The Rolliad, in Two Parts Probationary Odes for the Laureatship & Political Eclogues by Joseph Richardson

It is as great a strain as for the holder of a lottery ticket to look through the winning numbers in the list of a drawing—but in the opposite sense; what one seeks in this case, well knowing, thank God, that the chance is against one, is the chief prize in misery.
— from Lay Down Your Arms: The Autobiography of Martha von Tilling by Bertha von Suttner

Eight steamers that came down were reloaded and sent back with troops and stores in the course of twenty-four hours.
— from Khartoum Campaign, 1898; or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan by Bennet Burleigh

Taking his stand upon a leopard's skin, in the centre of the entrance hall, he gazed around calmly, as if he were the stranger contemplated by the serving-man.
— from Perlycross: A Tale of the Western Hills by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

It was his purpose to call the attention of the people at large in that State and throughout the country to the dangers of the situation if the contemplated legislation were put through.
— from Under Four Administrations, from Cleveland to Taft Recollections of Oscar S. Straus ... by Oscar S. (Oscar Solomon) Straus

How this is possible, and what the term specific essence or element may be supposed to express, I shall attempt to show in the chapter on the hypothesis of pangenesis.
— from The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication by Charles Darwin

186—Canted snowline in the Cordillera Vilcapampa between Arma and Choquetira.
— from The Andes of Southern Peru Geographical Reconnaissance along the Seventy-Third Meridian by Isaiah Bowman

I've worn mourning for these three last Sundays, sir; for I seemed to feel as if it was a sin and a disrespectfulness towards her to wear colours, and sit in the church where I have seen her so often, looking so meek and beautiful, Sunday after Sunday."
— from John Marchmont's Legacy, Volume 2 (of 3) by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

The doctor and his wife could not comprehend a sorrow inaccessible to consolation or sympathy, and were more than ever confirmed in their belief in Jane's heartlessness.
— from A Hero of the Pen by E. Werner

They all urged that the king stay in the capital.
— from The History of Korea (vol. 2 of 2) by Homer B. (Homer Bezaleel) Hulbert