XXI In consecrated Earth, And on the holy Hearth, 190 The Lars, and Lemures moan with midnight plaint, In Urns, and Altars round, A drear, and dying sound Affrights the Flamins at their service quaint; And the chill Marble seems to sweat, While each peculiar power forgoes his wonted seat.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

If the notion of good is not to be derived from an antecedent practical law, but, on the contrary, is to serve as its foundation, it can only be the notion of something whose existence promises pleasure, and thus determines the causality of the subject to produce it, that is to say, determines the faculty of desire.
— from The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant

Outside the DUKE'S palace, under SILVIA'S window Enter PROTEUS PROTEUS.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

The seeds will even poison poultry, if they pick them up after they have dropped from the pod.
— from The Naturalist on the Thames by C. J. (Charles John) Cornish

In consecrated earth And on the holy hearth The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight plaint; In urns, and altars round A drear and dying sound Affrights the Flamens at their service quaint; And the chill marble seems to sweat, While each peculiar Power foregoes his wonted seat.
— from The Home Book of Verse — Volume 1 by Burton Egbert Stevenson

We have assumed that P was simply the uniform hydrostatic pressure, equal in all directions, of a body of liquid; we have assumed that the tension T was simply due to surface-tension in a homogeneous liquid film, and was therefore equal in all directions, so that T = T′ ; and we have only dealt with surfaces, or parts of a surface, where extraneous pressure, p n , was non-existent.
— from On Growth and Form by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

Humphrey Gilbert , on his return from a voyage of discovery to America, was foundered at sea in a violent storm when every person perished.
— from The Every Day Book of History and Chronology Embracing the Anniversaries of Memorable Persons and Events in Every Period and State of the World, from the Creation to the Present Time by Joel Munsell

In a system where every position proceeds from a scientific preconstruction, a power acting exclusively in length, would be magnetism by virtue of our own definition of the term.
— from Hints towards the formation of a more comprehensive theory of life. by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I could see that she was experiencing positive pleasure from my question.
— from The Yellow House; Master of Men by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

In the intervals she would elaborate pleasant plans for the future, and would sketch a country home.
— from Tales of the Argonauts by Bret Harte

Having sawn through the scull with every possible precaution, and an arc being established from the dura mater to one of the ears, the usual contractions ensued.
— from An Account of the Late Improvements in Galvanism With a Series of Curious and Interesting Experiments Performed Before the Commissioners of the French National Institute, and Repeated Lately in the Anatomical Theatres of London by Giovanni Aldini

[652] From Koraï , in Japanese Kome (Chinese Kaoli ), name of a petty state, which enjoyed political predominance in the peninsula for about 500 years (tenth to fourteenth century A.D. ).
— from Man, Past and Present by A. H. (Augustus Henry) Keane