And since there are two efficient causes, some things must, he says, be affirmed to exist in consequence of intellect, and some from some necessary cause.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

We may mention, in passing, that as the Romanists adopted the mitre and the tiara from "the cursed brood of Ham," so they adopted the episcopalian crook from the augurs of Etruria, and the artistic form with which they clothe their angels from the painters and um-makers of Magna Gracia and Central Italy.
— from Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism With an Essay on Baal Worship, on the Assyrian Sacred "Grove," and Other Allied Symbols by Thomas Inman

"It is on this RELATIVE association of the sounds that all the essentially characteristic effects which are summed up in the phrase 'musical expression,' depend.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

And thus the six hundred year Cycular tradition became established in India, and finally spread through all the Eastern countries.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

He was brought forth in a waggon, and might be said to be literally a native of two different countries; for, though he first saw the light in Holland, he was not born till after the carriage arrived in Flanders; so that, all these extraordinary circumstances considered, the task of determining to what government he naturally owed allegiance, would be at least as difficult as that of ascertaining the so much contested birthplace of Homer.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

I need hardly say that according to English custom the hat ought to have been removed inside the room.
— from The Hungry Stones, and Other Stories by Rabindranath Tagore

Some time ago, the Excise Commissioner informs me, the Madras Excise Department had some aluminium measures made for measuring arrack in liquor shops.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

[ ON. ōðr] oðēwan = oðīewan oðfæstan † to inflict upon : set to ( a task ), entrust, commit , CP.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

First, that all things in the world from all eternity, by a perpetual revolution of the same times and things ever continued and renewed, are of one kind and nature; so that whether for a hundred or two hundred years only, or for an infinite space of time, a man see those things which are still the same, it can be no matter of great moment.
— from Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

At dinner the talk turned on the latest political news: Napoleon’s seizure of the Duke of Oldenburg’s territory, and the Russian Note, hostile to Napoleon, which had been sent to all the European courts.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Then I found that I must go back to the shore till the tide should turn, and the ebb come on.
— from Robinson Crusoe — in Words of One Syllable by Lucy Aikin

And this we can tell, that they will conquer at the last, because Christ is stronger than the devil; good is stronger than evil; light is stronger than darkness; God’s Spirit, the giver of life and health and order, is stronger than all the evil customs and carelessness and cruelty and superstition which make miserable the lives, and, as far as we can see, destroy the souls of thousands.
— from Out of the Deep: Words for the Sorrowful by Charles Kingsley

That very day Mr Lathrope had a pie made for his own special delectation by Snowball as a sort of amende honourable for the darkey’s laughter at Colonel Crockett’s celebrated rifle, which had come to such a deplorable and dangerous end; and, for some time after, the entire community of “Penguin Castle,” with the exception of the penguins themselves, feasted upon bunnies ad libitum , until they could say, as did the servants of that parsimonious nobleman who fed them without change on similar fare:— “Of rabbits young and rabbits old, Of rabbits hot and rabbits cold, Of rabbits tender and rabbits tough, Thank the Lord, we’ve had enough!”
— from The Wreck of the Nancy Bell; Or, Cast Away on Kerguelen Land by John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson

Taggart was drinking when Calumet reached his side, and Dade stood tense, awaiting the expected clash.
— from The Boss of the Lazy Y by Charles Alden Seltzer

It will be needful," he added, after some consideration, "to draw up a protest against the incorporation of Hanover, and to have it ready to send to all the European courts, as soon as the annexation is proclaimed.
— from For Sceptre and Crown: A Romance of the Present Time. Vol. 2 (of 2) by Gregor Samarow

In several of the provinces of Kyūshū the princes had become converts and had freely used their influence, and sometimes their authority, to extend Christianity among their subjects.
— from Japan by David Murray

Compare Met I 346, Met XIV 147-48 (the Sibyl to Aeneas) 'tempus erit cum de tanto me corpore paruam / longa dies faciet', and Tr I v 11-14 'spiritus et uacuas prius hic tenuandus in auras / ibit ...
— from The Last Poems of Ovid by Ovid

Peter the Countryman was not slow to assail the embarrassed couple with pleasantries, some more or less good, and others rather equivocal.
— from The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 by Various