[ The epithet probably indicates coquettishness.
— from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod

With other words and with phrases, usage differs; if strong feeling is expressed, the exclamation point is commonly used, but too many such marks deface the page.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

He still kept Granger's division at Decatur, Rousseau's at Murfreesboro', and Steedman's at Chattanooga, with strong railroad guards at all the essential points intermediate, confident that by means of this very railroad he could make his concentration sooner than Hood could possibly march up from Florence.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Evenings, when still at his post, he would occasionally read in the evening papers incidents concerning celebrities whom he knew—whom he had drunk a glass with many a time.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

[138] ALDGATE WARD The second ward within the wall, on the east part, is called Aldgate ward, as taking name of the same gate.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

2. In addition to the early payment in cash or kind of a sum of $5,000,000,000, Germany is required to deliver bearer bonds to a further amount of $10,000,000,000, or, in the event of the payments in cash or kind before May 1, 1921, available for Reparation, falling short of $5,000,000,000 by reason of the permitted deductions, to such further amount as shall bring the total payments by Germany in cash, kind, and bearer bonds up to May 1, 1921, to a figure of $15,000,000,000 altogether.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes

The symbol of the right-angled triangle was afterwards adopted by Pythagoras when he visited the banks of the Nile; and the discovery which he is said to have made in relation to the properties of this figure, but which he really learned from the Egyptian priests, is commemorated in Masonry by the introduction of the forty-seventh problem of Euclid's First Book among the symbols of the third degree.
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey

That we desire to escape pain is certain; its very definition can hardly go beyond the statement that pain is that element of feeling which we seek to abolish on account of its intrinsic quality.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Not entering into the mooted questions of criticism, it is a well written narrative of the eventful period it covers, presenting the story of Judea in its connection with the general movement of the world, as well as with the career of illustrious men.—
— from Education and the Higher Life by John Lancaster Spalding

After staying for a day at Hunsur, I drove, on October 22nd, to Titimutty, a small village on the frontier of Coorg, where I was met by Mr. Rose, of Hill Grove Estate, who drove me to his plantation near Polibetta, which is in the Bamboo district previously alluded to as containing about two-thirds of the European plantations in Coorg.
— from Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore With chapters on coffee planting in Coorg, the Mysore representative assembly, the Indian congress, caste and the Indian silver question, being the 38 years' experiences of a Mysore planter by Robert H. (Robert Henry) Elliot

The entire passage, if correctly translated, might then be expressed as follows:
— from Notes and Queries, Number 26, April 27, 1850 by Various

As for the ecclesiastical province, it corresponded to the Roman province: the divisions of worship of Rome and Augustus were the secret law which ruled all.
— from English Conferences of Ernest Renan: Rome and Christianity. Marcus Aurelius by Ernest Renan

How the evening passed I can hardly remember.
— from The Voyage of the Arrow to the China Seas. Its Adventures and Perils, Including Its Capture by Sea Vultures from the Countess of Warwick, as Set Down by William Gore, Chief Mate by T. Jenkins (Thornton Jenkins) Hains

That power was found to be withdrawn, "in view," as it was said, "of the favorable situation in which the island of Cuba" then "was," which, however, did not lead to a revocation or suspension of the extraordinary and arbitrary functions exercised by the executive power in Cuba, and we were obliged to make our complaints at Madrid.
— from State of the Union Addresses by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

[118] Now, when these plates are thus prepared, they are put into the acid solution in the jar, and a wire attached to each plate is connected with the two wires from a dynamo or other source of electric current, just as a lamp would be connected.
— from A-B-C of Electricity by Wm. H. (William Henry) Meadowcroft

The European population is composed almost entirely of the civil servants of the Government and the military men, who reside principally in the immediate neighbourhood of the town, not liking their Malay neighbours well enough to feel [95] inclined to spread far into the country.
— from Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China. by G. F. Davidson

This they did not fail to do, and for greater security, the latter is made an honorary clerk, The executive power is conferred on him nominally and in appearance; he does not possess it in fact, care having been taken to place it in other hands.—In effect, all executive agents and all secondary and local powers are elective.
— from The French Revolution - Volume 1 by Hippolyte Taine