By means of these principles, those who have descended into the details, and have studied the question sufficiently, will be able, in bringing in all their particular knowledge to bear on the general subject, to run over without difficulty almost the entire circle of the natural philosophy; those, on the other hand, who are not yet arrived at perfection, and who have not been able to hear me lecture on these subjects, will be able in their minds to run over the main of the essential notions, and to derive assistance from them for the tranquillity and happiness of life.”
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

Finally he got so under the influence of its contents that he was obliged to keep his bunk for two days, and his reappearance on deck was the signal for a scene, the remembrance of which disturbed Bob's sleep for many a night afterward.
— from A Sailor in Spite of Himself by Harry Castlemon

But now, when the moment for inevitable decision had come, Mike remembered, with a certain shrinking, that responsibility of which Dot had spoken,--the responsibility of being a man.
— from Young Lives by Richard Le Gallienne

The train was interminable which filed before the king over the sea; the rock on which Darius sat was pointed out for a long time afterwards.
— from The History of Antiquity, Vol. 6 (of 6) by Max Duncker

[Pg 44] Less than sixty-five years have passed since the region of which Denver is the great centre was thus pronounced useless except as a frontier to serve as protection from an enemy, and this judgment reminds one of a keen insight into the evolutionary progress of life expressed by Mrs. Julia Ward Howe when she remarked that "Every generation makes a fool of the one that went before it.
— from The Land of Enchantment: From Pike's Peak to the Pacific by Lilian Whiting

When he saw the sunset at Storrington, the resulting Ode was dotted with local landmarks—the cross, for instance, casting its shadow in the monastery garden.
— from Selected Poems of Francis Thompson by Francis Thompson

'Twere impious thought these cloister'd shades to roam, Or wake dull echo with one cheerful sound; No stranger eye might meditate the dome, No foot unhallow'd tread the sacred ground.
— from Poems: Containing The Restropect, Odes, Elegies, Sonnets, &c. by Robert Southey

Besides, he may not be going towards Kelstein: in this light we cannot see the road or what direction he takes.
— from Hetty Wesley by Arthur Quiller-Couch

For a description of the pottery of Northern Greece, with figured examples and references to the recent literature, see the Reports of Wace, Droop, and Thompson in "Annals of Archaeology," I., pp. 118 ff.
— from A History of Sumer and Akkad An account of the early races of Babylonia from prehistoric times to the foundation of the Babylonian monarchy by L. W. (Leonard William) King

“Whose is it, then?” asked Sam; “the rightful owners we don’t know, and the wrongful owners are defunct.”
— from The Battery and the Boiler: Adventures in Laying of Submarine Electric Cables by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne