The Eagle’s revenge (p. 293 ): This story, told by John Ax, illustrates the tribal belief and custom in connection with the eagle and the eagle dance, as already described in number 35 , “The Bird Tribes,” and the accompanying notes.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Why, this, indeed: The earth about that spring is porous more Than elsewhere the telluric ground, and be Many the seeds of fire hard by the water; On this account, when night with dew-fraught shades Hath whelmed the earth, anon the earth deep down Grows chill, contracts; and thuswise squeezes out Into the spring what seeds she holds of fire (As one might squeeze with fist), which render hot The touch and steam of the fluid.
— from On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus

The Essenes had their "Exoteric" and their "Esoteric" doctrines.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

If I believe they remain and suffer steady and imperceptible transformation, I know what to expect, and the event does not deceive me; but if I had to resolve upon action before knowing whether the conditions for action were to exist or no, I should never understand what sort of a world I lived in.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Senators quarrelled with each other, and no one objected, but they picked quarrels also with the Executive and threw every Department into confusion.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

This patent, of course, means that every one of his descendants in the male Page 414 {414} line has the rank of a Count of the Empire, and that every daughter of any such male descendant is a Countess, but this does not confer the rank of count or countess upon descendants of the daughters.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Thus we see that even at this early date it was taken for granted that citrous fruits possessed virtue in curing scurvy.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

Philo, in his commentaries on the Bible, sought to envelop and transform every detail in the light of Platonic metaphysics.
— from Interpretations of Poetry and Religion by George Santayana

Thus Ascham in his Toxophilus , insisting on the national importance of archery, argues that victory has always depended on superiority in shooting; and, to prove it, he shows how the Parthians checked the Romans, Sesostris conquered a great part of the known world, Tiberius overcame Arminius, the Turks established their empire, and the English defeated the French (with many like examples)—all by superior archery.
— from Logic: Deductive and Inductive by Carveth Read

These equinoxes are the eighth day before the Kalends of April and the eighth day before the Kalends of October, because the year formerly was divided into two parts only, that is, into the summer and the winter solstice, and into two hemispheres.
— from An encyclopedist of the dark ages: Isidore of Seville by Ernest Brehaut

The title, of which he thus early anticipated the enjoyment, devolved to him but too soon.
— from Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 1 With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore

A few careful strokes on Shorty's part worked the boat into the draw of the eddy, and the eddy did the rest till the boat softly touched against the bank.
— from Smoke Bellew by Jack London

But when the drawing has a certain dimension,—when the face-oval, for instance, has a diameter of more than an inch,—the same treatment may seem inexplicable to eyes accustomed to elaborated detail.
— from Gleanings in Buddha-Fields: Studies of Hand and Soul in the Far East by Lafcadio Hearn

Perfect fur would be marred by the twine snare, so the trapper devises as cunning a death for the ermine as the ermine devises when it darts up through the snow with its spear-teeth clutched in the throat of a poor rabbit.
— from The Story of the Trapper by Agnes C. Laut

Such were some of the edicts issued by the Emperor and the Empress Dowager in their efforts to launch this new system of education which was to transform the old China into a strong and sturdy youth.
— from Court Life in China: The Capital, Its Officials and People by Isaac Taylor Headland

The gardener, though enraged at the entire demolition of his melon–bed, and of sundry forced vegetables under glass, was not an ill–tempered fellow in the main; and seeing that the horse was half killed, and the rider, a foreigner, much bruised, he assisted poor Perrot to rise; and having gathered from him that he was in the service of rich Squire Shirley, rendered all the aid in his power to him and to Rattling Bess, who had received some very severe cuts from the glass.
— from The Prairie-Bird by Murray, Charles Augustus, Sir

Perhaps the entries appended to each day’s travel in Markham’s “Journal” will give as good an idea of the difficulty and the tortuous nature of their route, and of the frequency of their trips over the same road being duplicated and triplicated, as any direct description.
— from The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 by Frederick Whymper