Now, just as the parts draw food from each other, so also they sometimes deposit their excess substances Pg 297 Greek text in each other, and just as the stronger prevailed when the two were exercising traction, so it is also when they are depositing; this is the cause of the so-called fluxions, 368 for every part has a definite inborn tension, by virtue of which it expels its superfluities, and, therefore, when one of these parts,—owing, of course, to some special condition—becomes weaker, there will necessarily be a confluence into it of the superfluities from all the other parts.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

It is in active civil life that men get his broad air of importance, his dignified expectation of deference, his determinate mouth disarmed and refined since the hour of his success by the withdrawal of opposition and the concession of comfort and precedence and power.
— from Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw

It is possible that the, Mahar & Poncarear may have been a Distinct nation, as they only Speek Some words of the osage which have the Same Signification 25 Days to St Ta fee S. of W. Cross the heads of Arkansies around the head of Kanzies River after Delivering a Speech informing thos Children of ours of the Change which had taken place, the wishes of our government to Cultivate friendship & good understanding, the method of have good advice & Some Directions, we made 1 Great Chief to the who was not present, to whom we adresed the Speech & Sent Some presents or Meadels & flag, we made 2 Second Chiefs one for the Missouris & another for the Ottos (those two tribes are nearly equal 1'70 each) and 4 principal men, to thos principal men to thos we gave a Small Comtn.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

But decisively emphatic are the words of our Saviour: "If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father."— John XV.
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation Including Some Strictures Upon the Theories of Rev. Henry L. Mansel and Mr. Herbert Spencer by Jesse Henry Jones

The mother of the dead child then withdrew one of its hands from the putkūli, and the boy placed the grass and twig in the hand, and limes, plantains, rice, jaggery, honey-comb, and butter in the pocket of the putkūli, which was then stitched with needle and thread in a circular pattern.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

There was only one break in the dreary monotony of that month: when Blind d’Arnault, the Negro pianist, came to town.
— from My Antonia by Willa Cather

He observed during some time, himself unseen, a very young Dhangar woman from Nag-pore, the wife of one of the gardeners, nursing her baby who was at the point of death; and he distinctly saw the eyebrows raised at the inner comers, the eyelids drooping, the forehead wrinkled in the middle, the mouth slightly open, with the comers much depressed.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

That was one of the gleams that it is my business to find in assassins.
— from The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Yet in the Timaeus he had himself allowed that God made the world out of pre-existing materials: in the Statesman he says that there were seeds of evil in the world arising out of the remains of a former chaos which could not be got rid of; and even in the Tenth Book of the Laws he has admitted that there are two souls, a good and evil.
— from Laws by Plato

Gentleman says there had been seen at one time, “and numbered,” at Brassey Sound, in Shetland, where the busses rendezvoused, either going to sea or at sea within view, 2000 sail of busses and schuits, besides those that were out of sight.
— from The Sovereignty of the Sea An Historical Account of the Claims of England to the Dominion of the British Seas, and of the Evolution of the Territorial Waters by Thomas Wemyss Fulton

Segment : a ring or division bounded by incisions or sutures: a segment of an insect or of any articulate is a transverse portion reaching entirely across the body, originally separated on the exterior by incisions or sutures from the preceding and the succeeding segments, having attached to it not more than one pair of ventral appendages, containing internally not more than one pair of nerve ganglia which supply nerves to the pair of appendages; = somite, arthromere: fusion of segments frequently obscures, as in the head: externally the walls of one segment may be composed of a number of sclerites separated from each other by secondary sutures.
— from Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by John Bernhard Smith

Other birds are occasionally similarly affected; thus, when our own children were laid up with a very bad kind of scarlatina, our cage-birds, gold and green finches, were out of sorts for some time, drooping and dejected and unable to sing as usual, though the month was April, when they should have been in all respects at their best and in full and free song.
— from Nether Lochaber The Natural History, Legends, and Folk-lore of the West Highlands by Stewart, Alexander, Rev.

It may be perhaps expected that before, in the [Pg 67] second place, summing the other branches of the saga of this William of Orange, it should be said who he was.
— from The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by George Saintsbury

But his thoughts were only occupied in bringing to perfection the plan, which to them was still undiscovered.
— from The Cliff Climbers A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters" by Mayne Reid

On making inquiries he found that there was only one room left.
— from The Young Treasure Hunter; Or, Fred Stanley's Trip to Alaska by Frank V. Webster

The two lowest of the series, together with one of the three tributary cascades, are visible from this standpoint, but in reaching it the last twenty or thirty feet of the descent is rather dangerous in time of high water, the shelving rocks being then slippery on account of spray, but if one should chance to slip when the water is low, only a bump or two and a harmless plash would be the penalty.
— from The Yosemite by John Muir

And art thou, then, a world like ours, Flung from the orb that whirled our own A molten pebble from its zone?
— from The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Volume 10: Before the Curfew by Oliver Wendell Holmes

When they came to give judgment against his contention, they went out of the way to compliment him.
— from A Young Man's Year by Anthony Hope

You boil all the water out of de pot before you put the gigot into it.
— from The Claverings by Anthony Trollope