According to Ptolemy, son of Lagus, whose statements I chiefly follow, the entire number of the ships was about eighty thirty-oared galleys; but the whole number of vessels, including the horse transports and boats, and all the other river craft, both those previously plying on the rivers and those built at that time, fell not far short of 2,000.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

I believe, I no more laughed at them, than at the same age I should have been disposed to laugh at the grotesque Gothic heads (seeming to me then replete with devout meaning) that gape, and grin, in stone around the inside of the old Round Church (my church) of the Templars.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

Valentia 959 , a colony, is situate three miles from the sea, after which comes the river Turium 960 , and Saguntum 961 at the same distance, a town of Roman citizens famous for its fidelity, the river Uduba 962 , and the district of the Ilergaones 963 .
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

H2 anchor Chapter LI Sunday Morning LISBETH'S touch of rheumatism could not be made to appear serious enough to detain Dinah another night from the Hall Farm, now she had made up her mind to leave her aunt so soon, and at evening the friends must part.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

In this respect the position of shipowners is more favourable than that of railway companies and other land carriers, whose freedom of contract is curtailed by statute.— Bibliography : T. G. Carver, Carriage by Sea ; Sir T. E. Scrutton, Contract of Affreightment .
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

The Space-Time Continuum of the Speical Theory of Relativity Considered as a Euclidean Continuum 27.
— from Relativity : the Special and General Theory by Albert Einstein

In Brazil the best soil is known as terra roxa , a topsoil of red clay three or four feet thick with a gravel subsoil.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Some of them, the ministry which gave them birth was obliged to destroy: with their own hand they signed the condemnation of their own regulations; confessing in so many words, in the preamble of their act of the 5th Geo.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

The courtier, who had picked up at court some touch of Roman civilisation from Roman ecclesiastics, was bound to be courteous.
— from The Ancien Régime by Charles Kingsley

As they stopped at several small towns, they only reached Cincinnati, the largest city of Ohio State, and, indeed, of the whole of Western America, on the next day.
— from The wanderings and fortunes of some German emigrants by Friedrich Gerstäcker

It shows itself, as it should, first of all in the individual, and it is only recently that organized religion, Catholic or Protestant, has begun to show a sympathetic consciousness and to take the first hesitant steps towards meeting the demand.
— from Towards the Great Peace by Ralph Adams Cram

Frances meanwhile sat at home thinking, as she told me, hard thoughts of his disappearance with their only remaining coin.
— from Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Maisie Ward

St. Paul's Rock, and such old battered volcanic islands, as St. Helena, may be; but I think we can see some reason why we should have less evidence of sinking than of rising continents (if my view in my Coral volume has any truth in it, viz.: that volcanic outbursts accompany rising areas), for during subsidence there will be no compensating agent at work, in rising areas there will be the ADDITIONAL element of outpoured volcanic matter.
— from Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 by Charles Darwin

The treatment of ringworm consists in shaving the part, and keeping it clean with soap and water, at the same time that an occasional mild saline aperient is administered, and a light, nutritious diet, of which the red meat and ripe fruits should form a portion, be rigorously adhered to.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume II by Richard Vine Tuson

In this edition the Pope and all the other religious characters are omitted, probably by design.
— from The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein by Francis Douce

He wished to confer on Lamoriciere the title of Roman Count.
— from Pius IX. And His Time by Æneas MacDonell Dawson

Forty miles northeast it goes down its Great Falls to a lower plateau, having a total descent of nearly five hundred feet, the stream contracting in the gorge to a width of three hundred yards, and tumbling over repeated cascades, with intervening rapids.
— from America, Volume 6 (of 6) by Joel Cook