A captain in the army, killed in the historic battle of La Trebia which lasted three days, June 17-19, 1799.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

Not only among the Celts but throughout Europe, Hallowe’en, the night which marks the transition from autumn to winter, seems to have been of old the time of year when the souls of the departed were supposed to revisit their old homes in order to warm themselves by the fire and to comfort themselves with the good cheer provided for them in the kitchen or the parlour by their affectionate kinsfolk.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

↑ 198 Tĕrap —a kind of wild bread-fruit tree.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

" The messenger answers, "Such men as thou art are just the right men to serve the king; and now I can tell thee there are just two things for thee to choose,—either to depart in peace from thy property, and wander about as thy comrade Olaf is doing; or, which is evidently better, to accept King Canute's and Earl Hakon's friendship, become their man, and take the oaths of fealty to them.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

“Soft and fair!” said Peter; “I do not mean that you should be a slave to any king, but only that you should assist them and be useful to them.”
— from Utopia by More, Thomas, Saint

Note 149 ( return ) [ {amphirruton ten Kurenen einai}: some Editors read by conjecture {ten amphirruton Kurenen einai} (or {Kurenen ten amph, einai}), "that Kyrene was the place flowed round by water".
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

There is another species, M. tinctoria , Roxb.; M. Royoc , Blanco, called in Tagalog Tumboug̃ aso kapay , the roots of which are used by the Filipinos for the same purposes as the leaves of the former species; the dose, 8 grams a day.
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera

" She dropped a brisk curtsey, and walked back along the gallery, humming a little tune, and keeping time to it cheerfully with the nosegay in her hand.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Passing over the fact that, in Petersburg, a company of the cleverest men can make money out of their experiences through the different parts of Asia, there is here and there a Kirghis, a Buryat, a Circassian, or a Mongol, who, after being trained in Russian learning and modes of thought, becomes a most serviceable tool against the wholly or half-subjected land of his birth.
— from Sketches of Central Asia (1868) Additional chapters on my travels, adventures, and on the ethnology of Central Asia by Ármin Vámbéry

These are known as acetylene dichloride and tetrachloride respectively, or more systematically as dichlorethylene and tetrachlorethane.
— from Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use A Practical Handbook on the Production, Purification, and Subsequent Treatment of Acetylene for the Development of Light, Heat, and Power by W. J. Atkinson (William John Atkinson) Butterfield

Full rapport is more intimate than a kiss: no one except her father had ever really put a Lens on Virgilia Samms.
— from First Lensman by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith

How much more important than a knowledge of geography is the possession of an atlas.
— from If I May by A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne

And it is only as he lapses out of his integrity, by debasing his essence, that he impairs his original likeness, and drags it into the prone shapes of the animal kingdom—these being the effigies and vestiges of his individualized and shattered personality.
— from Tablets by Amos Bronson Alcott

Hind toe a knob.
— from Color Key to North American Birds with bibliographical appendix by Frank M. (Frank Michler) Chapman

But—but God does just seem more human and close to me if I think of Him as very busy—yet thoughtful and kind for us all.
— from Janice Day at Poketown by Helen Beecher Long

Now, that which imparts truth to the known and the power of knowing to the knower is what I would have you term the idea of good, and this you will deem to be the cause of science, and of truth in so far as the latter becomes the subject of knowledge; beautiful too, as are both truth and knowledge, you will be right in esteeming this other nature as more beautiful than either; and, as in the previous instance, light and sight may be truly said to be like the sun, and yet not to be the sun, so in this other sphere, science and truth may be deemed to be like the good, but not the good; the good has a place of honour yet higher.
— from The Republic by Plato

So then they all knocked the ashes out of their pipes—all except Mr. Robin, who began right off to read his story:
— from The Hollow Tree Snowed-In Book Being a continuation of stories about the Hollow Tree and Deep Woods people by Albert Bigelow Paine