For the Ancilia 680 had been taken out of the temple of Mars, for the usual procession, but were not yet replaced; during which interval it had of old been looked upon as very unfortunate to engage in any enterprise.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

Now this truth opens up a vast field for re-examination.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

And in a perfect darkness, such as could be produced by velvet wrapping, the crystal did undoubtedly appear very faintly phosphorescent.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

"Your Captain Nemo—the devil take him—has just made us a very pleasant proposition!"
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

" 18-1: A Moslem yogi; from the Arabic faqir , poor; originally applied to dervishes under a vow of poverty. 18-2: My father later told me that his company, the Bengal-Nagpur Railway, had been one of the firms victimized by Afzal Khan.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

Whatever you scramble with one key, the other will unlock, and vice-versa.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

Stubb saw him pause; and perhaps intending, not vainly, though, to evince his own unabated fortitude, and thus keep up a valiant place in his Captain’s mind, he advanced, and eyeing the wreck exclaimed—“The thistle the ass refused; it pricked his mouth too keenly, sir; ha! ha!”
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

They voted, with the reservation that it should not be published until after victory, the two decrees in one; in this form:— "DECREE.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

The buds, leaves, and branches, while they are green, are of a good use in the ulcers and putrid sores of the mouth and throat, and of the quinsey, and likewise to heal other fresh wounds and sores; but the flowers and fruit unripe are very binding, and so profitable for the bloody flux, lasks, and are a fit remedy for spitting of blood.
— 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

At the time of the dispute between the Æsir and Vanas, when peace had been agreed upon, a vase was brought into the assembly into which both parties solemnly spat.
— from Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

As I was returning from a solitary walk, I accidentally met the ladies, and on reaching the end of the grove through which we were passing, we seated ourselves on a garden chair, which stood under a very fine beech tree, from whence we had a distinct view of the rectory and its church, and also of Mr. Stevens' unobtrusive chapel.
— from The Sheepfold and the Common; Or, Within and Without. Vol. 1 (of 2) by Timothy East

An hour later she descended from a cab at the number on the Boulevard St. Michel, which was inscribed upon Alphonse Valentin's card.
— from The Blue Lights: A Detective Story by Frederic Arnold Kummer

It clearly refers to a time when the herbs of the field were utilised, and vegetable gardens did not supply the needful requisites for the table.
— from Proverb Lore Many sayings, wise or otherwise, on many subjects, gleaned from many sources by F. Edward (Frederick Edward) Hulme

At length the company, perceiving A. W. standing behind in a corner neare the dore, they haled him in among them, and play forsooth he must against him: whereupon, he being not able to avoid it, took up a violin, and behaved himself as poor Troylus did against Achilles."
— from The Life and Times of John Wilkins Warden of Wadham College, Oxford; Master of Trinity College, Cambridge; and Bishop of Chester by P. A. (Patrick Arkley) Wright Henderson

Nothing was lost upon him, and he responded at the close of every prayer, like a veteran, until that preceding the sermon; for a moment his attention wandered, and he sat lost in thought, till suddenly arousing himself, he uttered a vigorous "Amen" that [Pg 256] was heard all over the church, and which broke in upon the text which the pastor was repeating in solemn accents.
— from The Home at Greylock by E. (Elizabeth) Prentiss

To use a very expressive colloquialism, "He never felt himself above his job."
— from Great Singers on the Art of Singing Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists by James Francis Cooke

While in very many cases the partitions (like the walls of the original cell) will be either plane or spherical, a more complex curvature will be assumed under a variety of conditions.
— from On Growth and Form by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

The barber, who had received a talent of gold from the Court bishops Ursatius and Valentine to prepare the Emperor for the new profession of faith, was murmuring insinuatingly in the ear of Constantius and wielding his razor with the most persuasive delicacy, when at this moment the chief of the silentiarii , Paul, surnamed Catena, approached the Emperor.
— from The Death of the Gods (Christ and Antichrist, 1 of 3) by Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky

But in general, over the great clay belt, the soil, which is almost uniformly A Very Tenacious Boulder Clay (nearly free of boulders, however), averages between four and twelve feet in depth, quite deep enough, therefore, for cultivation.
— from The Unexploited West A Compilation of all of the authentic information available at the present time as to the Natural Resources of the Unexploited Regions of Northern Canada by Ernest J. Chambers

It was upon a verdant cushion; for we were upon the grass walk.
— from Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 6 by Samuel Richardson