] Note 2 ( return ) [ {tou en Memphi}: many Editors read {en Memphi}, "I heard at Memphis from the priests of Hephaistos," but with less authority.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

Till then we are eagerly concerned to place the motives on both sides in the clearest light, by calm meditation on the pro et contra , so that every motive may exert its full influence upon the will when the time arrives, and it may not be misled by a [pg 376] mistake on the part of the intellect to decide otherwise than it would have done if all the motives had their due influence upon it.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

When his wife had knelt down, and by lowering her head had exposed all the wondrous grandeur of the most superb backside that ever met my eyes, my prick bounded with joy.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

She turned round to embrace me most excitedly, and whispered that we must go elsewhere.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

Terror et metus maxime ex improviso accedentes ita animum commovent, ut spiritus nunquam recuperent, gravioremque melancholiam terror facit, quam quae ab interna causa fit.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

As you say, we may find the entombed men more easily this way than any other.
— from Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders; Or, The Underground Search for the Idol of Gold by Victor Appleton

The Muskingum River, coming out of the heart of the State, flows in at Marietta, a stream thus named by the Delaware Indians when they first came to this region, from the abundance of elk and deer who could be approached near enough to see their eyes, Muskingum meaning "elk's eyes."
— from America, Volume 6 (of 6) by Joel Cook

Don’t you think, you who are so capable, that the struggles that every man must encounter 75 in life demand the whole of his energies to bring them to a successful end?
— from The One-Way Trail: A story of the cattle country by Ridgwell Cullum

To express my meaning exactly is difficult.
— from Another Sheaf by John Galsworthy

As I read it I could not help wishing that my own feelings more resembled yours; but unhappily all the good thoughts that enter my mind evaporate almost before I have had time to ascertain their existence; every right resolution which I form is so transient, so fragile, and so easily broken, that I sometimes fear I shall never be what I ought.
— from Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle by Clement King Shorter

"It is become still more necessary than ever to produce some manifesto, petition, or public instrument upon the present situation of affairs; either to exhort his Majesty to make the only proper use of his victory, by seizing this opportunity of making advantageous offers of accommodation or to express openly and fairly to him the well-grounded apprehensions that every man must entertain from the power of the Crown in case his Majesty should be able to subdue the American Continent by the force of his army," [178] Fox wrote on October 13, 1776, to Lord Rockingham; who, in his turn in 1778 said to Chatham, "I conceive that America will never again consent to this country's having actual power within that continent."
— from Farmer George, Volume 2 by Lewis Melville

"Read on, Lacy," continued the emperor, mildly; "my eyes are dim and I cannot see."
— from Joseph II. and His Court: An Historical Novel by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

Of what are true Englishmen made, Mr. Englishman from Boston?" "Of poor Frenchmen, according to the barber."
— from Rose à Charlitte by Marshall Saunders