Now in the place where the journey is least and shortest from the Northern to the Southern Sea (which is also called Erythraian), that is from Mount Casion, which is the boundary between Egypt and Syria, the distance is exactly a thousand furlongs to the Arabian gulf; but the channel is much longer, since it is more winding; and in the reign of Necos there perished while digging it twelve myriads of the Egyptians.
— from An Account of Egypt by Herodotus

Now in the place where the journey is least and shortest from the Northern to the Southern Sea (which is also called Erythraian), that is from Mount Casion, which is the boundary between Egypt and Syria, the distance is exactly 137 a thousand furlongs to the Arabian gulf; but the channel is much longer, since it is more winding; and in the reign of Necos there perished while digging it twelve myriads 13701 of the Egyptians.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

When Art interprets the realities of nature, when it shows how much beauty and purity our human nature is capable of, it holds a mirror before all deformities.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

And without considering, without noticing whether there was anyone in the room or not, he flung his arms round her, and began to cover her face, her hands, her neck with kisses.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

But law rules in the realm of spirit as well as in the realm of nature.
— from Systematic Theology (Volume 2 of 3) by Augustus Hopkins Strong

“The act which abandons it [the right of navigation] is an act of separation between the eastern and western country,” Jefferson realized at last.
— from Pioneers of the Old Southwest: a chronicle of the dark and bloody ground by Constance Lindsay Skinner

He need not be a bully, but he must be a natural "master of the situation," and of men, in an emergency as well as in the routine of navy life.
— from The North Pacific: A Story of the Russo-Japanese War by Willis Boyd Allen

He sees an enormous mass of facts and laws relating to organic beings, which stand on the same good sound foundation as every other natural law; and therefore, with this mass of facts and laws before us, therefore, seeing that, as far as organic matters have hitherto been accessible and studied, they have shown themselves capable of yielding to scientific investigation, we may accept this as proof that order and law reign there as well as in the rest of nature; and the man of science says nothing to objectors of this sort, but supposes that we can and shall walk to a knowledge of the origin of organic nature, in the same way that we have walked to a knowledge of the laws and principles of the inorganic world.
— from Lectures and Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley

They were awake in the region of naked thought and feeling.
— from A Prisoner in Fairyland (The Book That 'Uncle Paul' Wrote) by Algernon Blackwood

We perceive in the depressed tone of this report, as well as in the reduction of numbers and land which it exhibits, that decline had begun and failure was impending.
— from History of American Socialisms by John Humphrey Noyes

And it would be my fault if I did not reach the ranch at an hour when an invitation to remain over night would be simply imperative under the canons of Texas hospitality.
— from A Texas Matchmaker by Andy Adams