Ovid also ( Fasti , ii.) explains the derivation of February, telling us that it was the last month of the old year, and took its name from the lustrations performed then: "Februa Romani dixere piamina patres."
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Again, it must not be forgotten that Yeh Shui- hsin, a scholar and critic of the first rank, deliberately pronounces the style of the 13 chapters to belong to the early part of the fifth century.
— from The Art of War by active 6th century B.C. Sunzi

This task concluded, he went to England, where he was to spend the few remaining days previous to his departure.
— from Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence by Louis Agassiz

He received many letters from churches in some of the large cities, like the following: "Rev. Dr. Penloe : "Dear Sir :—Our church in this city is an elegant structure and will seat twelve hundred persons.
— from A California Girl by Edward Eldridge

The form of this government and its chief characteristics are best described in the words of the royal order creating it, which is herein given in full because of many points of interest which are contained in the text and form of the decree, and which can not be well illustrated otherwise: Superior Civil Government Office of the Deputy Superintendent of the Philippine Treasury CIRCULAR The Minister of War and Colonies communicated to this Superior Civil Government, on the 31st of July of last year, the following Royal order: Your Excellency: The Queen (whom God protect) has been pleased to issue the following Royal decree: Pursuant to the reasons laid before me by the Minister of War and Colonies, and in accordance with the opinion of the Council of Ministers, I hereby decree the following: Article I. A politico-military Government is hereby established for the island of Mindanao and adjacent islands.
— from The History of Sulu by Najeeb M. (Najeeb Mitry) Saleeby

In these types of crepe rubber “tackiness” may be [214] initially present only in small degree, but the final damage may be immensely greater by close contact of the folded rubber during prolonged storage.
— from The Preparation of Plantation Rubber by Sidney Morgan

They should serve only to illuminate the few remaining doubtful points in the mind of the examiner, points which perhaps exist only because of some fault or weakness in his methods of examination.
— from Technic and Practice of Chiropractic by Joy Maxwell Loban

The Science of the Law of Nations, as left by the French Revolution, developed progressively during the nineteenth century under the influence of three factors.
— from International Law. A Treatise. Volume 1 (of 2) Peace. Second Edition by L. (Lassa) Oppenheim

Jane Austen, whose personality perhaps has more real womanly attractiveness than that of any sister novelist of the first rank, declared playfully that if she could have been persuaded to change her state it would have been to become Mrs. Crabbe; and who can forget Sir Walter Scott’s request in his last illness: “Read me some amusing thing—read me a bit of Crabbe.”
— from Immortal Memories by Clement King Shorter

Some of the stories in the following compilation were related to me by an old and valued servant of the family, Rachel du Port, others were kindly communicated to me by ladies [1] and others, who had derived their information from similar sources, and whose names I have appended to them, and much is the result of my own research and observation.
— from Guernsey Folk Lore a collection of popular superstitions, legendary tales, peculiar customs, proverbs, weather sayings, etc., of the people of that island by MacCulloch, Edgar, Sir