There he tied his wild man to a column in a raised and high place, making a show of awaiting the hunt, whilst the flies and gads gave the monk exceeding annoy, for that he was besmeared with honey.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

Pg 254] rule that the apparent size of an object depends on the angle that it subtends at the eye .
— from How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Archibald Williams

The Argonauts were surrounded, and their destruction seemed only a question of days when, suddenly, unasked, and by the mercy of Heaven, Aiêtês' daughter, Mêdêa, an enchantress as well as a princess, fell in love with Jason.
— from Medea of Euripides by Euripides

Dum cadat elusus ratione ruentis acervi:” [“Let the end shut out all disputes . . . .
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

But the setting of a boundary to the field of the understanding by something, which is otherwise unknown to it, is still a cognition which belongs to reason even at this standpoint, and by which it is neither confined within the sensible, nor straying without it, but only refers, as befits the knowledge of a boundary, to the relation between that which lies without it, and that which is contained within it.
— from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant

Soon afterwards Fritz Muller discovered that the young stems of an Alisma and of a Linum—plants which do not climb and are widely separated in the natural system—revolved plainly, though irregularly, and he states that he has reason to suspect that this occurs with some other plants.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

Nevertheless, there was a sort of afterglow of summer, which was further intensified by the beautiful flowers in the window-boxes and by the fresh, clean, fragrant atmosphere of the house itself.
— from The School Queens by L. T. Meade

Unless some one at some time is ready to take some chance for the sake of internationalism, that 258 is of international morality, it will remain what it is to-day, an object of derision to aggressive nations.
— from America and the World War by Theodore Roosevelt

As to the alarm sounded, of an aristocracy, his creed was that there never was, nor ever will be a civilized Society without an aristocracy.
— from The Journal of the Debates in the Convention which Framed the Constitution of the United States, May-September 1787. Volume 1 by United States. Constitutional Convention (1787)

Those pools were our mirrors, in which, reflected in the dark hyaline and framed by the sleek and shining fronds of oar-weed there used to appear the shapes of a middle-aged man and a funny little boy, equally eager, and, I almost find the presumption to say, equally well prepared fog business.
— from Father and Son: A Study of Two Temperaments by Edmund Gosse

Their function, on behalf of the remaining representatives of the ancient dynasty, was to garland the British Prince with "lais," ropes of close-strung pink carnations and scarlet ilima flowers, bringers of good-luck, and to present him with a polished brown calibash, the size of a foot-bath, adze-hewn, a hundred years ago, from hard-wood felled in the interior, and now filled with a luscious assortment of bananas, mangoes, loquats, paw-paws, water-lemons, pineapples, bread-fruit, and crimson mountain-apples, symbols which made him free of the good
— from Down Under with the Prince by Everard Cotes

The deck of a mail steamer, to take an instance, became suddenly animated as the signals of a sailing-vessel were read out.
— from The Englishman in China During the Victorian Era, Vol. 1 (of 2) As Illustrated in the Career of Sir Rutherford Alcock, K.C.B., D.C.L., Many Years Consul and Minister in China and Japan by Alexander Michie

The Mahābhārata speaks of a band of bards and eulogists marching in front of Yudishthira as he made his progress from the field of Kurukshetra towards Hastinapur.
— from The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 2 by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell

What sort of a place is this you girls are going to?
— from The Corner House Girls How they moved to Milton, what they found, and what they did by Grace Brooks Hill

No person shall be convicted of treason, unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.
— from Great Events in the History of North and South America by Charles A. (Charles Augustus) Goodrich