Though the Romans, upon the expulsion of Tarquin, made an essential change in the political form of the state, they did not carry their detestation of regal authority so far as to abolish the religious institutions of Numa Pompilius, the second of their kings, according to which, the priesthood, with all the influence annexed to that order, was placed in the hands of the aristocracy.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

I am certain that most of my readers would have joined in her laugh had they known the object which provoked her mirth.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

What beauty, then, or what proportion of the parts to the whole, or of the whole to the parts, can there be in a book or fable where a lad of sixteen cuts down a giant as tall as a tower and makes two halves of him as if he was an almond cake?
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

That the world of physics is probably not absolute, all the converging multitude of arguments that make in favor of idealism tend to prove; and that our whole physical life may lie soaking in a spiritual atmosphere, a dimension of being that we at present have no organ for apprehending, is vividly suggested to us by the analogy of the life of our domestic animals.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

Let the number be divided into two parts and then into three; for it is very convenient for the purposes of distribution, and is capable of fifty-nine divisions, ten of which proceed without interval from one to ten.
— from Laws by Plato

= then encircle this leaf, like the others with plain stitches, join the 8 last stitches to the last 8 of the large leaf = make 4 leaves all alike.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

Take of white Poppy heads, meanly ripe, and newly gathered, twenty, steep them in three pounds of warm spring water, and the next day boil them until the virtue is out, then strain out the liquor, and with a sufficient quantity of good sugar, boil it according to art, that you may make it up into Lozenges.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

Tadpole flattered by her notice, and charmed with female society that talked his own slang, and entered with affected enthusiasm into all his dirty plots and barren machinations, was vigilant in his communications; while her whig cavalier, an easy individual who always made love by talking or writing politics, abandoned himself without reserve, and instructed Lady Firebrace regularly after every council.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Therefore, what may be said in regard to one will prove also to be largely true of the other.
— from Rural Problems of Today by Ernest R. (Ernest Rutherford) Groves

There is less variety in uniforms than is common in Western and most of the other Warsaw Pact forces.
— from Area Handbook for Romania by Eugene K. Keefe

Now, gentlemen, I hate to waste my time on such things, but in regard to that general Abolition tilt that Judge Douglas makes when he says that I was engaged at that time in selling out and Abolitionizing the old Whig party, I hope you will permit me to read a part of a printed speech that I made then at Peoria, which will show altogether a different view of the position I took in that contest of 1854.
— from Noted Speeches of Abraham Lincoln, Including the Lincoln-Douglas Debate by Abraham Lincoln

England at once laid down the "rule of 1756," that neutrals should not exercise in time of war privileges of traffic which they were not permitted to enjoy in time of peace; and this principle she was able to maintain (p. 047) more or less completely until 1793, when France declared war on her, and again invited neutral commerce to French colonial harbors.
— from The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. Vol. 3 (of 4) by William Milligan Sloane

It is, however, impossible to make a tuning fork or a stretched piano spring alter the pitch of its note without altering the elastic force of the spring by altering its tension, or without putting weights on the arms of the tuning fork to make it go more slowly.
— from Time and Clocks: A Description of Ancient and Modern Methods of Measuring Time by Cunynghame, Henry H. (Henry Hardinge), Sir

The old woman paused and surveyed her work.
— from The Princess Galva: A Romance by David Whitelaw

She is a Sister of Mercy, devoted to good works, and leaves her convent only in times of war, plague, pestilence or famine, to minister to the suffering.
— from The Missing Bride by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

He is the literary, the oratorical, the talking or writing philosopher; whereas the philosopher is the scientific pensée -writer.
— from Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel by Henri Frédéric Amiel

The upper part of these block-houses projected on every side several feet beyond the ground floor, and over the whole was a sheathing of planks, which, as well as those covering the barracks of the officers, were painted of a brick-red colour.
— from Wacousta : a tale of the Pontiac conspiracy (Complete) by Major (John) Richardson

The one weak point, and this Lieutenant Larson kept to himself, was the fact that it was only with the best of luck that the flight could be made with but two landings.
— from Dick Hamilton's Airship; Or, A Young Millionaire in the Clouds by Howard Roger Garis