—The root is ovoid, ranging in size from that of a hazel-nut to that of a walnut, composed of a white, spongy substance.
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera

In many continental towns they buy their water, and on a protracted sea voyage the ration is often reduced to half a pint a day for all purposes , so that a pint per diem is considered luxurious.
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

In Italy they have solemn declamations of certain select young gentlemen in Florence (like those reciters in old Rome), and public theatres in most of their cities, for stage-players and others, to exercise and recreate themselves.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction; nay, it is in the right interpretation of reality and history that poetry consists.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

The Hungarians and Poles on one side still struggled against the Russian inertia of race, and retained their own energies under the same conditions that caused inertia across the frontier.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

The Latin Christians embraced the religious institutions of Rome.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

In the Ms. of the Vienna library, they read, instead of regnum, rogum, prayer or request (see Ducange;) and the royalty of Charles Martel is subverted by this important correction, (Catalani, in his Critical Prefaces, Annali d'Italia, tom. xvii.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

What substitute can there be imagined for this ignis fatuus in finance, but that of permitting the national government to raise its own revenues by the ordinary methods of taxation authorized in every well-ordered constitution of civil government?
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

Poetry feeds and waters the passions and desires; she lets them rule instead of ruling them.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

Various as are the counts against the poet's conduct, they may all be included under the declaration in the Republic , "Poetry feeds and waters the passions instead of withering and starving them; she lets them rule instead of ruling them.
— from The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years by Elizabeth Atkins

The religious interests of Roman Catholic students are in many colleges served by the Newman Clubs and similar organizations, and of Jewish students by the Menorah Society.
— from College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College by Paul Klapper

" The restraining influences of religion have never been withdrawn from Spain or Portugal, from Austria or Italy.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Miscellany by Robert Green Ingersoll

But as the legislator has power to repeal the whole of a law, so in the case of some particular person, or individual action, he may relax its rigour, allowing it to remain in other respects, as it stood before.
— from The Rights of War and Peace by Hugo Grotius

[36] Let grief or love have the power to animate the winds, the trees, the floods, provided the figure be dispatched in a single expression, but when this figure is deliberately spread out with great accuracy through many lines, the reader, instead of relishing it, is struck with its ridiculous appearance.—
— from The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 Poetry - Volume 1 by Alexander Pope

The reading in one record, "Three stripes or strips of land," seems to indicate that the name was descriptive of the necks or strips of land.
— from Footprints of the Red Men Indian geographical names in the valley of Hudson's river, the valley of the Mohawk, and on the Delaware: their location and the probable meaning of some of them. by Edward Manning Ruttenber

And so it is; and I trudge back to my landlord to have this rather important omission rectified.
— from A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France by William Duthie

As regards the respective importance of reading and -184- grammar, the French teachers of the time appear to have put into practice the ideas of the reformers.
— from The Teaching and Cultivation of the French Language in England during Tudor and Stuart Times With an Introductory Chapter on the Preceding Period by K. Rebillon (Kathleen Rebillon) Lambley

“To the right is our road,” he said.
— from The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope