As it was, Antigonus after going to Tegea and restoring its constitution, arrived on the second day at Argos, at the very time of the Nemean games.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

↑ 125 The sacrificial buffalo (when presented to a Raja) is covered with a cloth, and has its horns dressed and a breast-ornament ( dokoh ) hung round its neck ( vide Pl. 11, Fig. 2).
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

It's more than any reality I could attain, ( as she does not move ) Speak to me, Claire.
— from Plays by Susan Glaspell

I shall make my wife a brilliant literary lady; I shall bring her forward and explain her to the public; as my wife she must be full of the most striking virtues; and if they are right in calling Andrey Alexandrovitch our Russian Alfred de Musset, they will be still more right in calling her our Russian Yevgenia Tour."
— from Short Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Tis true I told him all in jest, [Pg 223] I through the air could float in upward gyre; And he, inquisitive and dull at best, Did full instruction in the art require: I could not make him Dædalus, [752] so then His second father sent me to the fire.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Mephistophelian scepticism, indeed, will satisfy the head's play-instincts much better than any rigorous idealism can.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

"Sir Henry Wotton told me," replied James, "that the States at his arrival were assembled to deliberate on this matter, and he had no doubt that they would take a resolution in conformity with my intention.
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

The master demanded payment in advance, and received an order from the Emperor to the Rath of Nuremberg to hold “his and the Empire’s true and faithful Albert Dürer exempt from all the town taxes and rates, in consideration of our esteem for his skill in art.”
— from Dürer Artist-Biographies by M. F. (Moses Foster) Sweetser

Tīcinus, ī , m., the Ticinus , a river in Cisalpine Gaul, tributary to the Po.
— from Selections from Viri Romae by C. F. L'Homond

The great author of Ivanhoe, and those amongst whom, abroad and at home, his mantle was divided, had employed History to aid Romance; I contented myself with the humbler task to employ Romance in the aid of History,—to extract from authentic but neglected chronicles, and the unfrequented storehouse of Archaeology, the incidents and details that enliven the dry narrative of facts to which the general historian is confined,—construct my plot from the actual events themselves, and place the staple of such interest as I could create in reciting the struggles, and delineating the characters, of those who had been the living actors in the real drama.
— from Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 01 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

In H. cribratostriatus the male has a similar rasp, excepting that it is not partially divided into two portions, and the female is completely destitute of this organ; the male in addition has on the apical margins of the elytra, on each side of the suture, three or four short longitudinal ridges, which are crossed by extremely fine ribs, parallel to and resembling those on the abdominal rasp; whether these ridges serve as an independent rasp, or as a scraper for the abdominal rasp, I could not decide: the female exhibits no trace of this latter structure.
— from The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex by Charles Darwin

Some of these are rich in colour.
— from Windows: A Book About Stained & Painted Glass by Lewis F. (Lewis Foreman) Day

Opposition to a real international court.
— from The Future of International Law by L. (Lassa) Oppenheim

The Right to Vote—All Women who desire the Suffrage should have It—Shall the People of the District of Columbia Manage their Own Affairs—Their Right to a Representative in Congress and an Electoral Vote—Anomalous State of Affairs at the Capital of the Republic—Not the Wealthy and Educated alone should Govern—The Poor as Trustworthy as the Rich—Strict Registration Laws Needed.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll

Ionian colonists came to Tarsus in very early times; and Ramsay is confident that Tarshish, 'the son of Javan,' in Gen. x. 4, is none other than Tarsus.
— from Outspoken Essays by William Ralph Inge

The Australian Region; including Celebes and Lombock, eastward to Australia and the Pacific Islands.
— from The Geographical Distribution of Animals, Volume 1 With a study of the relations of living and extinct faunas as elucidating the past changes of the Earth's surface by Alfred Russel Wallace